Isabel Bozdogan, grade 12, and Camila Montero, grade 12 Design and Architecture Senior High, Miami, FL Teacher: Eric Hankin We have designed modules for a community-built art and design education center by adapting the South American indigenous tradition of “Minga,” which stands for collective labor done to promote social utility. The design would be implemented...
Cristina Cruz, grade 11, and Conrad Parsons, grade 11 Granada Hills Charter High School, Granada Hills, CA Teacher: Kani Kim Our design is a simple yet effective method to dispose of landmines and clear landmine fields. It benefits the user because it allows them to clear the land around them of invisible death traps. We...
Maile Gaines, grade 11, and Mindy Preston, grade 11 Communications High School, Wall Township, NJ Teacher: Shelley Ortner Religious and cultural intolerance are a widespread problem that only serve to create tension among communities. Our group observed this within our neighborhoods and identified the problem as a lack of education. Those that face this issue...
Krystal Jiang, grade 10 Bergen County Academies, Hackensack, NJ Teacher: Scott Lang Improvement is necessary in corporate responsibility and the ethical decisions that consumers make. With this in mind, “shifting the markets” and pushing for a more ethical and sustainable economy is one of the best ways to work toward corporate justice. My design idea...
Lucy Montalti, grade 10 Bergen County Academies, Hackensack, NJ Teacher: Scott Lang Currently, period products are viewed as commercial products and even taxed as a luxury item in some regions, despite being a necessary health product. The Cycle Project aims to redefine menstrual products as health products and ensure that all people with periods have...
Eleanor Pimentel, grade 12 Moscow Senior High School, Moscow, ID Periods are heavily gendered in our culture. For transgender and nonbinary people who are assigned female at birth, taking care of their reproductive health means being misgendered by doctors, bathroom signs, and even product packaging. Gender nonconforming people’s mental and physical health suffers because of...
Sophia Shin, grade 11 Bergen County Academies, Hackensack, NJ Teacher: Scott Lang I am reimagining a world where social justice education is made easier and awareness is taken more seriously. This concept affects all people but specifically targets young social media users, allowing youth to learn and create change through technology in a more effective...
Thea Angella Tenorio, grade 12 Redwood High School, Larkspur, CA My design addresses the struggle of amplifying the voices of marginalized communities. The lack of these voices perpetuates a society built to benefit those who are privileged, without making room for other people. I’ve experienced this marginalization and hope to create a better environment for...
Renee Wang, grade 10 The Bishop’s School, La Jolla, CA Millions of people worldwide are denied the basic human right to a home. The typical homeless shelter fails to cater to individuals’ needs because they do not support independent and private living. However, tiny homes offer comfortable living, permanent housing, a sense of community, and...
Lake Wiesmayr-Cheuk, grade 11 Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School, New York, NY Living in New York’s Chinatown, I’ve learned from personal experience that ignorance creates prejudice. I took the idiom, “Before you judge someone, walk a mile in their shoes,” as inspiration for my design. In order to empathize with another person it is helpful...
Presented in collaboration with the Letterform Archive, San Francisco What is Bauhaus typography, and why does it matter? Take a virtual tour of Letterform Archive’s exhibition Bauhaus Typography at 100, and get up close and personal with little-known works from the collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Look at key pieces of graphic design...
Sarah (1859–1930) and Eleanor (1864–1924) Hewitt were pioneers in the field of design education who established what is known today as Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Growing up, Sarah and Eleanor were immersed in a world of art and books, and the family traveled to Europe every year. Their insatiable curiosity led them to buy...
screenings: World Premiere: Architecture and Design Film Festival, vancouver, BC Mud Frontier had its World Premiere on November 12, 2021 at the Architecture and Design Film Festival, with in-person screenings in Vancouver, Canada. In March 2022, the festival traveled to Washington, D.C., where the film was screened at the National Building Museum. U.S. Premiere: Santa Fe...
How do cut glass objects differ from those created using the innovation of pressed glass and what does this have to do with celery?
American designers Marion V. Dorn and E. McKnight Kauffer returned to New York in 1940 after a long, productive period working abroad in England. Their retreat, spurred by World War II, was a hasty one. Dorn, the more resilient of the pair, spent much of the 1940s re-establishing her career, even briefly designing scarves for...
