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Image of three people on stage, left is Andrea Lipps, who wears a dark shirt and glasses, and has a dark bob haircut, Derek Lam in the middle, wears a dark tshirt and holds a microphone and Ivan Poupyrev on the right, who is wearing a dark button up shirt and is looking at and listening to Derek
2019 NDA Winners’ Salons: Ivan Poupyrev and Derek Lam
Celebrate the 20th anniversary of the National Design Awards at Cooper Hewitt! In this 20 minute talk, Ivan Poupyrev | Interaction Design Award Winner, and Derek Lam | Fashion Design Award Winner talk with Andrea Lipps, Cooper Hewitt Associate Curator for Contemporary Design on the topic “Design and the Body” ABOUT NATIONAL DESIGN WEEK Launched...
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December 6, 2019
Image of three people on a stage: from the left, Ruki Neuhold Ravikumar has dark short hair and holds a microphone, in the middle Tobias Frere-Jones wears a blue shirt, dark glass, and has dark hair, on the right, Susan Kare, wearing a blue patterned dress and dark blue sweater, her hair is golden brown
2019 Winners’ Salons: Tobias Frere-Jones and Susan Kare
Celebrate the 20th anniversary of the National Design Awards at Cooper Hewitt! In this 20 minute talk, Tobias Frere-Jones | Communication Design Award Winner, and Susan Kare | Lifetime Achievement Award Winner, talk with Cooper Hewitt Director of Education Ruki Neuhold-Ravikumar on the topic  Points, Picas, and Pixels ABOUT NATIONAL DESIGN WEEK Launched in 2006,...
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December 6, 2019
Image of two people on a stage holding microphones. Andrea Lipps has a dark bob haircut and glass, a black shirt and red pants. Tinker Hatfield is on the right, he wears a green woolen jacket and a fedora.
2019 NDA Winners’ Salons: Tinker Hatfield
Celebrate the 20th anniversary of the National Design Awards at Cooper Hewitt! In this 20 minute talk, famed Nike designer Tinker Hatfield | 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 ABOUT NATIONAL DESIGN WEEK...
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December 6, 2019
image of four people on a stage at cooper hewitt. from the left: Ellen Lupton, Luke Dubois, Jessica Helfand, and Zack Lieberman. They each hold mics and Jessica is speaking
Exploring A.I.: Data Portraits
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...
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December 4, 2019
Image of Pinar Guvenc, Derek Lam and Patricia Moore, 2019 NDA winners, sitting together on stage, all in dark grey and black clothing, with a dark background, Derek holds a microphone with one hand and gestures with the other
2019 National Design Awards in Detroit
Ruki Neuhold-Ravikumar, Director of Education at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum moderates a panel with 2019 National Design Award winners: Pinar Guvenc, Open Style Lab (Emerging Designer Award) Derek Lam (Fashion Design Award) Patricia Moore (Design Mind Award) This panel was held as part of Include, a biennial international conference that focuses on issues central...
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November 14, 2019
Wyss Institute Selects
The beauty of natural forms and their underlying design principles provide living organisms with their incredible strength, resilience, and efficiency. Matilda McQuaid, Deputy Director of Curatorial and Head of Textiles leads a discussion with Don Ingber, founding director of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, and his co-faculty member Pamela Silver....
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November 6, 2019
Tinker Hatfield, NDA winner, has his arm around Spike Lee, while standing at a podium at the National Design Awards
2019 National Design Awards Gala
Live from Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City. The 20th Annual National Design Awards is made possible by generous support from Target. Additional support is provided by Design Within Reach, Facebook, and Bloomberg Philanthropies. National Design Award trophies are created by The Corning Museum of Glass. ndagallery.cooperhewitt.org is powered by Behance, part...
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October 29, 2019
Image of three women on stage at cooper hewitt, from the left, Ezgi Emiroglu, Laurie Pressman, Jennifer Cohlman Bracchi
Nature of Color, Color of Nature
exploreing the evolution of colors in design, the role of color in the natural world, and the inspiration designers have long drawn from nature.
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October 29, 2019
Curator, Computer, Creator: A Discussion on Museums and AI in the 21st Century
For decades, artificial intelligence has held a prominent position in our collective imagination, powering future visions ranging from transhumanist utopia to dystopian depictions of a world run by machines. As such, exploring, critiquing, and understanding the ethical implications of AI within a museum context is becoming a pressing need. In an evening co-hosted by The...
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October 15, 2019