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Cooper-Hewitt: Design Your Life with Ellen Lupton Ellen Lupton has been Cooper-Hewitt's curator of contemporary design since 1992. Her new book, Design Your Life: The Pleasures and Perils of Everyday Things (St. Martins Press, May 2009), is co-authored with her twin sister Julia. Design Your Life takes an irreverent and realistic look at everything from toasters, bras, and pillows to housekeeping and procrastination. Speaking to readers who are both design-conscious and consumer-wary, Design Your Life taps into the popular interest in design as well as peoples desire to make their own way through a mass-produced world. graphic design, women and design, productivity, signage, toasters, ergonomics, behavior, toilet paper, design thinking, Ellen Lupton, office design, smart appliances, Design Your Life, visibility principle, talk, long, public program
Cooper-Hewitt: Sustainable Fashion for a Living World (AUDIO ONLY) Join Rogan Gregory and Scott Hahn, co-founders of Loomstate, Julie Gilhart, Senior Vice President and fashion director of Barneys New York, and Leslie Hoffman, executive director of Earth Pledge in conversation with Sarah Scaturro, textile conservator, curator and author, on the importance and future of sustainable fashion. Sustainable Fashion, Living World, panel, Sarah Scaturro, John Rogan Gregory, Scott Hahn, Loomstate, Ecofashion, sustainability, Slow, Julie Gilhart, Barneys, Leslie Hoffman, Earth Pledge, education, talk, long, public program, audio
Cooper-Hewitt: 2009 Teen Design Fair with Tim Gunn New York City teens were invited to learn about careers from over thirty professionals working in the fields of fashion, industrial, multi-media and graphic design as well as architecture. Design colleges from around the country were on hand to provide admission and financial aid information. Tim Gunn, members of the cast of Project Runway, and designers from Google, Nike, Gensler, 2x4, SHoP Architects, and more participated in the Teen Design Fair. The event took place during National Design Week, October 1924, 2009. 2009, Teen Fair, New York City, NYC, Tim Gunn, education, Lecture, Teens, youth, event, long, public program
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: 2009 The Business of Design Business leaders discuss how design impacts their overall strategy and affects their bottom line. Moderated by Daniel H. Pink, the panelists will discuss the role of design thinking in the workplace as it relates to consumer goods as well as overall company vision. Moderator: Daniel H. Pink, author of A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future Panelists include: Bill Moggridge, 2009 Lifetime Achievement National Design Award Winner, co-founder of IDEO 2009, Business of Design, Bill Moggridge, Jeanne Liedtka, Sam Lucente, Daniel H. Pink, panel, talk, long, public program
Cooper-Hewitt: Design Revolution Join us for a discussion with Emily Pilloton, author of Design Revolution, Allan Chochinov, founder of Core77, Susan Szenasy Editor in Chief of Metropolis Magazine, and Cynthia E. Emily Pilloton, Design Revolution, Allan Chochinov, Core77, Cynthia Smith, curator, Susan Szenasy, Metropolis Magazine, materials, sustainability, product design, Project H Design, panel, talk, long, program
Cooper-Hewitt: Pioneers of Change: Towards a New Notion of Luxury Since the economic downfall the notion of luxury has come under attack. Pioneers of Change does not apply the luxury to an ethos of riches as such but to qualities now hard to come by, such as space, fresh air, respect, care, silence, slowness and time. Can we reach a new notion of luxury: a luxury of content and experience over luxury of expensive materials and name and fame of brands and designers? Moderator: Matilda McQuaid, Deputy Curatorial Director and Head of Textiles, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Panelists: Pioneers of Change, Towards New Notion Luxury, Matilda McQuaid, Laurene Boym, Partners Inc, Winy Maas, MVRDV Architects, Marije Vogelzang, Proef, Amale Andraos, Work Architecture Company, panel, talk, long, public program
Cooper-Hewitt: Pioneers of Change: New Collaborations Pioneers of Change celebrates the blurring of low- and high brow, questioning the difference between the design world and the normal world. How can non-professionals play an intricate role in realizing creative projects? Moderator: Julie Iovine, Executive Editor Architects Newspaper Panelists: Jake Barton, Local Projects Pascale Gatzen, Painted Arne Hendriks, Platform 21 Scott Stowell, Open collaboration, non-professionals, Droog, Jake Barton, Local Projects, Pascale Gatzen, Painted, Arne Hendriks, Platform 21, Scott Stowell, Open, Julie Iovine, Executive Editor, Architects Newspaper, Pioneers of Change, panel, talk, long, public program
Cooper-Hewitt: Museum Design Lab: Museum Future Symposium The Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum hosts the Future of Museum Symposium featuring six groups of interdisciplinary students from the course Museum Lab taught by Tim Ventimiglia at Parsons The New School for Design as well as five museum partners. The symposium starts with an introduction by Ventimiglia followed by the students presenting strategies for six New York area museums, and the symposium concludes with a panel discussion of five partnering museum staff responding to the presentations. Jenny Florence & Maria Antonia Villegas present on Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum. Masters Program, course, Museum Design Lab, Future Symposium, student presentations, Tim Ventimiglia, panel, event, long
Cooper-Hewitt: Rodarte in Conversation with Sally Singer A conversation with Laura Mulleavy, one of the designers behind Rodarte and Vogues fashion news and features director, Sally Singer. In 2009, Rodarte was Cooper-Hewitts National Design Award Fashion Design finalist and won the CFDA Womenswear Designer of the Year Award. Rodarte, Laura Mulleavy, Kate Mulleavy, sisters, Sally Singer, Vogue, Fashion Week, fashion design, Exhibition, talk, long, public program