Enjoy our monthly round-up of some of our favorite moments captured by visitors. Make sure to tag your photos #cooperhewitt on Instagram to be featured in next month’s post! @_justinerivera_ reflected on the wall design in #FragileBeasts. @andre.chile discovered a new perspective on Gareth Pugh’s work in #DesignTriennial. @anninax3 let loose in the Heatherwick Studio’s...
Enjoy our monthly round-up of some of our favorite moments captured by visitors. Make sure to tag your photos #cooperhewitt on Instagram to be featured in next month’s post! 1. @allisonkoller captured a finned leather jacket with Magick ink by TheUnseen in the Design Triennial. 2. @demidimi anthropomorphized typography. 3. @greensometimesblue let the good times...
Today, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Director Caroline Baumann announced the winners of the 2016 National Design Awards, recognizing excellence and innovation across a variety of disciplines in 11 categories. Now in its 17th year, the annual awards were established to promote design as a vital humanistic tool in shaping the world. The award recipients...
Enjoy our monthly round-up of some of our favorite moments captured by visitors. Make sure to tag your photos #cooperhewitt on Instagram to be featured in next month’s post! 1. @caseyfremont brought a young one to venture forth in the garden. 2. @devoteddiarist found a kindred spirit with Sir Paul Smith. 3. @cnylorac surveyed the...
This May, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum presents the fifth installment of Design by Hand, a biannual series of public programs that celebrate the craftsmanship, innovations and merits of pioneering design organizations. Held May 16–18 during NYCxDesign, the spring series features Humberto Campana of the Campana Brothers, who, along with creative staff from Estudio Campana,...
Featuring creative and alternative approaches to confronting textile industry waste, “Scraps: Fashion, Textiles and Creative Reuse,” on view Sept. 23–April 16, 2017, presents the work of three designers who put sustainability at the heart of the design process. Highlighting contemporary design that embraces the tradition of using handcraft to give new life to scraps and...
March welcomed spring and a new Selects exhibition guest-curated by Thom Browne. Visitors have been sharing their arresting experiences of the period-like room presentation as well as from every other corner of the museum. Enjoy our monthly round-up of images, and make sure to tag your photos #cooperhewitt on Instagram to be featured in next...
Congratulations Claire Christianson! Claire is the winner of the Student Design Challenge #ThinkOutside, Cooper Hewitt’s first-ever nationwide competition for high-school students. Launched in January 2016 in collaboration with Target, the competition garnered hundreds of submissions from 19 states across the U.S. Students were challenged to design an outdoor chair for Cooper Hewitt’s garden that is...
February saw the opening of Beauty—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial, and visitors have been busy sharing their takes on contemporary work featured in the galleries, as well as special moments found throughout the museum. Here are some of our favorites. Make sure to tag your photos #cooperhewitt on Instagram to be featured in next month’s roundup!...
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, in partnership with El Museo del Barrio, announces a dynamic roster of free upcoming public programs for DISEÑO, the second in the series that heralds the impact of Latinos on American design. The lineup of lectures and workshops commences Feb. 23 with a panel discussion on contemporary architecture with architects...
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum announces the launch of Student Design Challenge #ThinkOutside, its first-ever nationwide competition for high school students, inviting them to submit ideas for an outdoor chair inspired by objects from the museum’s collection. Organized by Cooper Hewitt in collaboration with Target, the challenge’s winning chair design will be manufactured by the...
We rounded out 2015 with a number of dazzling designgrams posted by our visitors. To be featured in next month’s roundup, don’t forget to tag #cooperhewitt in your Instagram posts. @___ico___ posted a museum mashup from “Provocations: The Architecture and Design of Heatherwick Studio.” @architrapho brought her daughter to “Pixar: The Design of Story.” @eglasberg...
For the next installment of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s popular “Selects” series, fashion designer Thom Browne explores ideas of reflection and individuality with an installation that includes more than 50 of the museum’s historic and contemporary mirrors and frames. “Thom Browne Selects,” on view in the Nancy and Edwin Marks Collection Gallery March 4–Oct....
This November, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum will present the fourth installment of its Design by Hand series, which celebrates the craftsmanship, innovations and merits of pioneering design organizations. Held Nov. 12–14, the fall series will spotlight and feature creative staff from Pixar Animation Studios, and takes place in conjunction with “Pixar: The Design of...
Visitors find endless inspiration at Cooper Hewitt—as shown by the following collection of shots taken at the museum over the past month. Share your photos with us on Instagram by using #cooperhewitt and you might be featured in next month’s roundup! @beautyandtheblogny got caught taking a selfie in the Immersion Room. @israel_ochoa_15 played with pattern...
