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Cooper-Hewitt: Design for HumansJoin the Cooper-Hewitt for a conversation on user-centered design with National Design Award Winners and Finalists who have been recognized for their contribution to the field of Product Design. Moderated by Jesse Ashlock, former Editor-in-Chief of I.D. Magazine. A pioneer of ergonomic design, Niels Diffrient is driven by the need to improve the way existing products work. For Diffrient, the key to human factors, is getting enough data so you really understand whats happening with the body, mind, social context. You let the user drive design. Sigi Moeslinger, Antenna Design, Niels Diffrient, Dan Formosa, Smart USA, 2010, Jesse Ashlock, I.D. Magazine, product, Ergonomic, panel, talk, long, public program |
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Cooper-Hewitt: Voices in American FashionWashington Post Style Editor Robin Givhan, leads a conversation with past National Design Award Winners Francisco Costa (Womens Creative Director of Calvin Klein Collection), Yeohlee Teng, and Maria Cornejo about their work and the role of fashion in contemporary culture. Their designs are featured in Design USA: Contemporary Innovation. Fashion Design, Washington Post, Style Editor, Robin Givhan, Francisco Costa, Calvin Klein, Yeohlee Teng, Maria Cornejo, Zero USA, panel, talk, long, public program |
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Cooper-Hewitt: Rick Cook on sustainable designRick Cook talks to the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt staff. Cook+Fox Architects is a firm devoted to creating environmentally responsible, high-performance buildings. The firm has become known for innovative design at the highest standard of environmental responsibility and for their commitment to excellence enriched by the collaborative process. Rick Cook, Cook+Fox, Bank of America, energy, water, Architecture, Bryant Park, design, New York, talk, long, public program |
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Bill's Design Talks: PentagramMichael Bierut and Yve Ludwig of Pentagram talk about designing the catalog for the National Design Triennial: Why Design Now? Michael Bierut, yve ludwig, Pentagram, graphic, triennial exhibit, New York, sustainable, Why Design Now, environment, Chuck Kim, Matilda McQuaid, Bill Moggridge, bills design talks, talk, long, public program |
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Bill's Design Talks: David Owen and Our Green MetropolisNew York City is widely considered an ecological nightmare—a wasteland of concrete and high-rises, diesel fumes and traffic jams, garbage and pollution. But, in the groundbreaking work of contrarian environmental thinking that is Green Metropolis, David Owen declares New York City as the greenest community in America. smithsonian, cooper-hewitt, design, museum, Bill Moggridge, David Owen, Andrea Lipps, New York City, sustainability, Green Metropolis, environment, urban, Urbanism, pollution, traffic, developing nations, Critical Mass, bills design talks, talk, long, public program |
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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 |
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Cooper-Hewitt: Cities for PeopleFor more than forty years Jan Gehl has helped to transform urban environments around the world based on his research into the ways people actually use—or could use—the spaces where they live and work. In this revolutionary book, Cities for People, Gehl presents his latest work creating (or recreating) cityscapes on a human scale. He clearly explains the methods and tools he uses to reconfigure unworkable cityscapes into the landscapes he believes they should be: cities for people. smithsonian, cooper-hewitt, National, design, museum, Jan Gehl, cities, Urbanism, Denmark, New York, talk, long, public program |
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Cooper-Hewitt: Game Change in the Design of Retailingsmithsonian, cooper-hewitt, design, Design Research, Jane Thompson, Michael Bierut, Jenna Lyons, panel, talk, long, public program |
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Cooper-Hewitt: The Business of Design 2010Business leaders discuss how design impacts their overall strategy and affects their bottom line. Bob Safian, Publisher of Fast Company moderates a panel that investigates companies choices that are making clear impact on sustainability issues and their businesses. Panelists include: S. Richard Fedrizzi, CEO, United States Green Building Council Chris Hacker, Chief Design Officer, Johnson & Johnson Kevin Kramer, President of Growth Initiatives, Alcoa John Bradford, Chief Innovations Officer, InterfaceFLOR Richard Fedrizzi, CEO, Chris Hacker, Chief Design Officer, Johnson & Johnson, Kevin Kramer, Alcoa, John Bradford, Chief Innovations Officer, InterfaceFLOR, smithsonian, cooper-hewitt, Bob Safian, Fast Company, Bill Moggridge, sustainability, Cooper-Union, Thom Mayne, Business, panel, talk, long, public program |
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Why Design Now? Solving Global Challenges Conference - part 1How can we power the world with clean energy? How can we improve the quality of life through health-care innovations? Design has emerged as a powerful tool to help businesses offer ingenious and often disruptive solutions to the world's most complex problems. Join us as leading thinkers, scientists and designers share their expertise and discuss how design can accelerate innovation and provide efficient and scalable solutions to the most pressing global needs. This program was a collaboration with GE and Smithsonian, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. smithsonian, cooper-hewitt, GE, National Design Museum, conference, talk, design, Global Challenges |
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