Videos

Innovative Educational Design Expo Thursday May 16, 2013 Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, in collaboration with the GreenLab committee of NEST+m, will host an Innovative Educational Design Expo to be held in conjunction with the NYC x Design Week festivities. An open house from 5:00-6:15 will allow guests to view posters and meet representatives from different groups doing exciting and ground-breaking work creating stimulating environments for K-12 students. The expo will be followed by brief presentations from NEST+m, Cooper-Hewitt and other innovative practitioners, with an opportunity for discussion afterwards.
Harlem Focus \| Public Monuments: Art in Collaboration with Landscape Design Thursday May 09, 2013 After winning a public competition, artists Algernon Miller and sculptor Gabriel Koren collaborated with landscape architect Mark Bunnell of Quenell Rothschild & Partners to design and execute the public circle and monument to African American abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass. Join Algernon Miller and Mark Bunnell as they discuss their collaboration and how landscape design informs site-specific art, and vice versa.
Bill Moggridge's Books Tuesday December 04, 2012 The global design community suffered a great loss when Bill Moggridge passed away in September 2012 following a battle with cancer. Bill was a pioneer of interaction design, a co-founder of IDEO, and director of the Cooper-Hewitt museum. Here's the story of his personal library, which is now open to the public digitally and physically. library, books, stamps, Director, Stamp, design, John Malcolmson
The Business of Design 2012 Thursday November 29, 2012 On October 16, 2012, leading innovators and thinkers in business and design were invited to Cooper-Hewitt's Business of Design Breakfast, an annual National Design Week event, for a discussion about creative ways each community can be inspired by the other. Bob Safian, publisher of Fast Company, moderated the conversation. Themes included how design can be a productive methodology for business, provocation and its role in design to move a business forward, and the opportunities and challenges of hiring new design talent. Business, National Design Week, Bob Arko, Coalesse, Kate Aronowitz, Facebook, Neal Arthur, Wieden + Kennedy, Caroline Baumann, cooper-hewitt, National Design Museum, Matt Baer, Fab, Christopher Bevans, Billionaire Boys Club, Linda Boff, General Electric, Paolo Cravedi, Alessi, Aaron Dignan, Undercurrent, Raymond J Kilmer, Alcoa, Yaron Koppel, SodaStream, Arthur Rubinfeld, Starbucks Coffee Company, Robert Safian, Fast Company, Robert Wong, Google Creative Lab
Patrick Jouin rapid prototyping/C2 Chair Wednesday November 14, 2012 Patrick Jouin describes the rapid prototyping process used for the production of his 'C2 Chair'. Cooper-Hewitt Design Center, Patrick Jouin
The National Design Awards Wednesday October 24, 2012 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
Andrew Revkin Wednesday October 24, 2012 Join Andrew Revkin, professor, author, and creator of the New York Times Dot Earth blog on climate change and sustainable living, to explore contemporary trends in collaborative communication and design and how they can be used to shape a sustainable human journey. How can nurturing the 'knowosphere' increase public awareness of an increasingly human-dominated planet and foster constructive discussion and action? Cooper-Hewitt Design Center, ecological, green design, talks
The 21st-century Design Library Tuesday October 23, 2012 A conversation about libraries in the 21st century. This event was held in Cooper-Hewitt's newly renovated National Design Library. Features Gary E. Strong, University Librarian, UCLA, and Stephen H. Van Dyk, Head of the Art Division, Smithsonian Libraries. Moderated by Nancy E. Gwinn, Director, Smithsonian Libraries. library, technology, design, cooper-hewitt, smithsonian, panel, talks
2012 National Design Awards Gala: Part 1 Thursday October 18, 2012 The National Design Awards are bestowed at a gala benefit dinner and awards ceremony in New York City each fall. This year's festivities will be held at the spectacular Pier Sixty on the Hudson River on the evening of Wednesday, October 17. This year's vice-chairs are Beth Comstock, Aaron Dignan, Paul Herzan, Madeleine Rudin Johnson, Fern Mallis, Todd Oldham, and Judy Francis Zankel. Cooper-Hewitt Design Center, National Design Award, gala
2012 National Design Awards Gala: Part 2 Wednesday October 17, 2012 The National Design Awards are bestowed at a gala benefit dinner and awards ceremony in New York City each fall. This year's festivities will be held at the spectacular Pier Sixty on the Hudson River on the evening of Wednesday, October 17. This year's vice-chairs are Beth Comstock, Aaron Dignan, Paul Herzan, Madeleine Rudin Johnson, Fern Mallis, Todd Oldham, and Judy Francis Zankel. National Design Award, gala, Jury Panel