You’re invited to the return of Behind the Book Design, a members-only, behind-the-scenes look into the design and production of publications for our biggest exhibitions. Join Cooper Hewitt collaborators Sunny Park, Gary Fogelson, Ryan Waller, and Ellen Lupton as they share insights into their design process. An open discussion and Q&A will follow with Pamela Horn, Director of Cross-Platform Content at Cooper Hewitt.

A Zoom link will be sent to members in October.

Sunny Park is a creative director working across branding, print and digital design. Sunny is based in New York and Los Angeles, running her own studio Park–Langer together with Scott Langer and is currently designing the exhibition publication for Making Home — Smithsonian Design Triennial.

Other Means is the Brooklyn-based graphic design studio of Gary Fogelson, Phil Lubliner, and Ryan Waller. The studio initiates projects, lectures, and workshops on the relationship between design and popular culture, and since 2012 it has collaborated with clients in the arts, architecture, fashion, and media on visual identities, websites, publications, illustrations, and exhibitions. Other Means designed the exhibition publication for By the People: Designing a Better America.\

Ellen Lupton is a graphic designer, writer, critic, educator, and curator emerita at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Known for her love of typography, Lupton is the founding director of the Graphic Design M.F.A. degree program at Maryland Institute College of Art where she also serves as director of the Center for Design Thinking

 

Support

Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial is presented in collaboration with Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. This project received federal support from the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative Pool, administered by the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum; the Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the National Museum of the American Latino; the Asian Pacific American Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center; and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Generous support is provided by the Henry Luce Foundation and the Terra Foundation for American Art.

Support is also provided by the Lily Auchincloss Foundation; Edward and Helen Hintz; re:arc institute; the Keith Haring Foundation; the Lemberg Foundation; Maharam; and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.