A hastily drawn symbol in black ink showing a human figure standing inside a triangle, which is inside a circle, which is inside a square.
04/27
Saturday
Sat. April 27, 2024
2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET
Cooper Hewitt’s Give Me A Sign exhibition explores the history of graphic symbols as documented by industrial designer Henry Dreyfuss in his Symbol Sourcebook: An Authoritative Guide to International Graphic Symbols (1972). This program expands upon the symbol lexicon covered in the Symbol Sourcebook to include tactile symbols, used by people who are blind or have low vision, as well as people with other complex disabilities. Like their 2D counterparts, these symbols quickly convey important information, and they are often developed through collaborative and iterative design processes.  .
Event Address:
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
2 E 91st St
New York, NY 10128
 
Black and white photograph of studio teammates talking in meeting room.
05/03
Friday
Fri. May 3, 2024
6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET
Join us for a studio visit to Atlason, a New York City-based design firm and winner of the 2023 National Design Award for Product Design. Atlason is a strategic innovation and industrial design studio founded in 2004 by Hlynur Vagn Atlason. The studio designs consumer products, furniture, and packaging for a range of companies. Their recent designs include a completely recyclable and compostable packaging system for shipping plants, a lounge chair for healthcare settings that resists microbial growth, and an ergonomic refillable razor. .
Event Address:
SoHo, New York. (The exact location will be shared with attendees upon completed registration.)