Seeking the sublime in the most innovative new design across all categories, Beauty showcases the most exciting and provocative international design created during the past three years. Born out of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s 2016 Triennial of the same name and curated by Andrea Lipps and Ellen Lupton, the objects featured cause us to...
With its unique focus on visual language, Ellen Lupton’s How Posters Work is more than another poster book. Rather than provide a history of the genre or a compilation of collectibles, the book is organized around active design principles. Concepts such as “Simplify,” “Focus the eye,” “Exploit the diagonal,” and “Say two things at once”...
To mark the occasion of Cooper Hewitt’s reopening in 2014, the museum published an expansive book based on its unparalleled collection, which consists of more than 210,000 objects from all over the world, spanning 30 centuries. Designed by Irma Boom—and a wonderful design object in itself at over 900 pages—the book expresses the museum’s primary...
From the earliest times to the present, tools have been at the frontier of design, demonstrating how technology and culture are inextricably linked.
From user research to hacking, open source to maker culture, Beautiful Users explores the changing relationship between designers and users.
A poignant and witty meditation on the importance of both quotidian and unusual objects.
Celebrating the most creative and forward thinking designs, trends, and future horizons across the many fields of design.
Exploring the promotion of nature tourism in nineteenth-century America through Cooper-Hewitt's extraordinary collections of oil paintings, drawings, and watercolors by these artists.
The first museum exhibition of contemporary Israeli design in the U.S., New Design from Israel covered approximately 25 works, including prototypes, experimental objects, and production pieces. Only 700 copies printed.
This book features more than 300 superb color photographs revealing Dresser's highly innovative ceramics, cast-iron garden furniture, and stark geometric silverplate tableware, along with previously unattributed designs for textiles, wallpaper, and glass.
A critical selection of work by eighty designers and firms operating at the most provocative level in design today.
Celebrating the most creative and forward thinking designs, trends, and future horizons across the many fields of design.
Featuring the work of notable designers from Greg Lynn to Marcel Wanders, along with essays on artificial skin and digital surfaces, and a glossary of surface materials.
Catalog for the groundbreaking exhibition of virtually unknown design works by some of the most significant Minimalist and post-Minimalist artists of the last fifty years, including Donald Judd, Scott Burton, Richard Tuttle, Dan Flavin, Sol Lewitt and Rachel Whiteread.
