Ross Barney Architects is the 2021 National Design Award winner for Architecture and Interior Design.

Studio-MLA, Mia Lehrer is the 2021 National Design Award winner for Landscape Architecture.

Cheryl D. Miller is the 2021 Design Visionary National Design Award winner.

Behnaz Farahi is the 2021 National Design Award winner for Digital Design.

Presented each year by Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, the National Design Awards recognize innovation and impact in design. Welcome remarks are given by Lonnie Bunch, Secretary of the Smithsonian, and Ruki Neuhold-Ravikumar, Acting Director of Cooper Hewitt.

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”.