Month: August 2024

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A Closer Look: What Fun Is a Font if You Can’t Play with It?
A look at the specific challenges and opportunities of collecting and displaying digital media.
How to Sell a Heater During a Revolution
Discover a collection of designs for stoves invented and produced by Ollivier’s Manufactory during the tumultuous period of the French Revolution.
Symbols as Synecdoche: Creating Community Identity
How do symbols represent communities?
The words "Making Home" appear in large red type against a lavender background. The words "Smithsonian Design Triennial" appear in smaller, black type against a lavender background.
Cooper Hewitt Announces “Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial”
This fall, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum will present “Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial.” Featuring 25 site-specific, newly commissioned installations, the exhibition explores design’s role in shaping the physical and emotional realities of home across the U.S., U.S. territories and tribal nations. On view Nov. 2 through summer 2025, “Making Home” is the seventh offering in the museum’s Design Triennial series, which was established in 2000 to address the most urgent topics of the time through the lens of design.