UPDATED May 26, 2021 “Contemporary Muslim Fashions,” the first major museum exhibition to explore the rise of the modest fashion industry, will be presented at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, this pioneering exhibition examines how Muslim women—those who cover and those who do not—have become arbiters...
In this 20 minute talk, Ivan Poupyrev (2019 Interaction Design Award Winner), and Derek Lam (2019 Fashion Design Award Winner) talk with Andrea Lipps, Cooper Hewitt Associate Curator for Contemporary Design on the topic “Design and the Body.”
In this 20 minute talk, Amy Smith, founder, MIT D-Lab (2019 Corporate & Institutional Achievement Award Winner) talks with Cooper Hewitt Director of Digital and Emerging Media Carolyn Royston on the topic “Empowerment through Participatory Design.”
In this 20 minute talk, Tobias Frere-Jones (2019 Communication Design Award Winner), and Susan Kare (2019 Lifetime Achievement Award Winner), talk with Cooper Hewitt Director of Education Ruki Neuhold-Ravikumar on the topic “Points, Picas, and Pixels”.
In this 20 minute talk, famous Nike designer Tinker Hatfield (2019 Product Design Award Winner) talks with Scott Dadich of Godfrey Dadich Partners, and Andrea Lipps, Cooper Hewitt Associate Curator of Contemporary Design about the topic “Storytelling Through Design”.
In this 20 minute talk, winner of the 2019 Design Mind Award Patricia Moore and Pinar Guvenc, board member of Open Style Lab (Emerging Designer Award), talk with Cooper Hewitt Curatorial Director Cara McCarty speak on the topic “Why Inclusive Design Matters”.
This is a reproduction wallpaper about which very little is known. The Diament company was an importer so presumably the paper came from Europe. It closely copies a paper originally produced by the Parisian firm Jules Desfossé in 1856, woodblock-printed in five colors. The design is divided into two separate views: the top view shows...
What does it feel like to have your face registered as a data point? To be seen or evaluated by a computer? While artificial intelligence has become a pervasive technology in our daily lives, it often goes unnoticed. Artists and designers Luke Dubois, Zach Lieberman, and Jessica Helfand discuss their work within the larger context...
Author: Madelyn Shaw This silk embroidery, titled “Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh’s Flights – 1931 – 1933 – 1937,” is an extraordinary take on the tradition of the map sampler. Embroidered lines in blue, gray, and red trace the routes that Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh took on a few of their 1930s flights: in 1931,...
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum today, Dec. 3, announced plans to launch a digital community archive in conjunction with its upcoming “Willi Smith: Street Couture” exhibition (on view March 13 through Oct. 25, 2020). The digital community archive, which will be powered online by Cargo, will share public anecdotes, personal photographs, ephemera and garments documenting...
Barbara A. Mandel, 1925–2019 Cooper Hewitt Trustee 1997-2019 The Board of Trustees and staff of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum deeply mourn the passing of our beloved friend and exceptional former Board Chair Barbara Mandel. Forthright, fiercely intelligent, and a champion of design education, Barbara served Cooper Hewitt from 1997-2019, first as chair of its...
This 3D-printed artificial limb prototype represents the use of innovative digital manufacturing technology to meet the enduring need for prosthetics, which has been experienced by individuals around the world and at all economic levels. This technology requires no medical specialists, only access to a tablet-based application and an easy-to-use scanner. This is of particular relevance to the...
World AIDS Day (December 1), was designated in 1988 as an occasion to raise awareness of AIDS and to commemorate those lost to the disease. Developed by Visual AIDS, an organization that supports artists and communities affected by HIV and AIDS, this poster announces the first Day Without Art on December 1, 1989. Day Without...
When legendary French graphic designer A.M. Cassandre was hired in 1931 to produce this poster for the Dutch light bulb and radio tube manufacturer Philips, he was at the high point of his career. Together with fellow poster designer Charles Lupton, Cassandre had founded the printing and publishing collective Alliance Graphique in Paris, France.[1] Cassandre...
During the period from around 100 B.C. to 400 A.D., Nasca needleworkers from the South Coast of Peru mastered the complex art of three-dimensional cross-looping. A number of colorful and complicated border fragments like this one have been preserved. The few garments that remain intact show that they were used as the outer edging attached...
