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Design Talks: Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects 2012 National Design Award winners Mack Scogin and Merrill Elam have worked together in architecture for over forty years. Founded in 1984, their Atlanta-based firm, Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects, has won international acclaim for work that ranges from a sleek factory for Herman Miller to the Lulu Chow Wang Campus Center for Wellesley College and commercial office space for Tishman Speyer Properties. The firm’s diverse body of work is uniquely characterized by profound rigor tempered by childlike innocence. Architecture, mack scogin, merrill elam, National Design Awards
My Marimekko Moment Melooni is a large-scale design made of concentric ovals in orange, fuchsia, black, and purple on a red ground. It is produced by screen printing on cotton fabric. The Melooni pattern was designed for Marimekko in 1963 by designer Maija Isola, who created 533 designs for Marimekko over the course of her thirty-eight year career. Isola studied as a painter and her designs have a painterly quality about them that is bold, intense, and enthusiastic. National Design Awards, Jane Thompson, Marimekko, Design Research Company
The National Design Awards What are the National Design Awards? What makes the Awards unique and important to the country and the world? Acclaimed designers and design thinkers Massimo Vignelli, Debbie Millman, Steven Heller, Walter Hood, Davin Stowell and Isabel & Ruben Toledo explain in this short piece about the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt's National Design Awards, its meaning and legacy. Cooper-Hewitt Design Center, National Design Awards
The sky is darkening like a stain Does capturing the malevolent and mysterious quality of Rodarte’s fashions in contract fabrics sound like the impossible brief? Then extra credit is due to this collaboration among former National Design Award winners Rodarte and Knoll. Since their debut in 2005, Rodarte’s collections have been singled out for their intensive, often destructive textile treatments, which have included burning, sanding, and staining. Kate Mulleavy, Laura Mulleavy, Rodarte, Dorothy Cosonas, Knoll Luxe, W.H. Auden, window treatments, The Moderns, digital printing, National Design Awards
Cooper-Hewitt to Host Seventh Annual National Design Week Oct. 13–21 Cooper-Hewitt to Host Seventh Annual National Design Week Oct. 13–21 The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum will host its seventh annual National Design Week from Oct. 13 through Oct. 21. The museum will offer a series of public programs and a range of online resources for students, teachers, design professionals and the general public to celebrate the important role that design plays in all aspects of daily life. All Cooper-Hewitt programs are free with advance registration at www.cooperhewitt.org/ndw. National Design Week, design, Target Design Kids, Todd Oldham, Teen Design Fair, Andrew Revkin, National Design Awards
History of Honorees & Jurors Visit the National Design Awards Gallery, powered by Behance, to view the work of National Design Award honorees and jurors. National Design Award Honorees 2012 National Design Awards
Cooper-Hewitt: 2009 National Design Awards Winners' Panel 2009 National Design Award winners participate in a panel discussion about their inspiration and drive as designers and the state of contemporary design in America. Moderator: Walter Hood, HOOD Design, Landscape Design Winner Panelists include: Amory Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute, Design Mind Winner Andrew Blauvelt, Walker Arts Center, Corporate / Institutional Winner Christopher Sharples, SHoP Architects, Architecture Winner Laurene Boym, Boym Partners, Product Design Winner National Design Awards, 2009, Winners Panel, walter hood, landscape, Amory Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute, Mind, Andrew Blauvelt, Walker Art Center, Corporate Institutional, Christopher Sharples, SHoP Architects, Laurene Boym, product, Calvin Tsao, TsAO McKOWN, Interior Architecture, Jeff Han, Perceptive Pixel, interaction, Steve Duenes, New York Times, Graphics Department, Communications, panel, talk, long, public program
Cooper-Hewitt: Bill Moggridge- What is Design? Speaking to K-12 Educators from New York and across the country, Bill Moggridge addresses the question of 'What is Design?'. This is the keynote lecture for the Smithsonian Design Institute. http://cooperhewitt.org/EDU/community_programs.asp iMode, design process, shinichi takemura, Tangible Earth, PDA, futurism, Michelle Obama, White House, Bill Moggridge, prototyping, iterative, iteration, sustainability, National Design Awards, media, video, soda machine, smithsonian, cooper-hewitt, design, Smithsonian Design Institute, Intel, talk, long, public program
Bill's Design Talks: From Then to Now—The Trajectory of Design The design process has progressed from just forming objects to addressing the situations in which objects are used. This is a major theme in Ralph Caplan's seminal book By Design, expressed in the book's subtitle: Why There Are No Locks on the Bathroom Doors of the Hotel Louis IV and Other Object Lessons. This year, Ralph Caplan is honored with the National Design Mind Award for his contributions to design research and scholarship. smithsonian, cooper-hewitt, National Design Museum, Ralph Caplan, Bill Moggridge, ID Magazine, design, design thinking, National Design Awards, bills design talks, talk, long, public program