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An Atlas of Es Devlin
The first monograph on artist Es Devlin’s genre-defying practice
A dark green book cover. At the top in bright green, all capital letters is the title "A Dark, A Light, a Bright" stacked asymmetrically. At the bottom is the subtitle "The designs of Dorothy Liebes"; this text is left justified and inset with a black-and-white photograph of hands at a loom.
A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes
Cooper Hewitt's monograph on celebrated American modernist Dorothy Liebes
Designing Peace: Building a Better Future Now
An intersectional exploration of design for peace
The Architecture of Health: Hospital Design and the Construction of Dignity
The Architecture of Health is a story about the design and life of hospitals.
Health Design Thinking: Creating Products and Services for Better Health
As health care systems around the globe struggle to expand access, improve outcomes, and control costs, Health Design Thinking offers a new approach for designing dynamic, responsive health care products and services.
Book cover feauting a dynamic smorgasbord of icons and storytelling elements, including emojis, three little pigs, underwear, ice cream cones, and a glass slipper. "Design Is Storytelling Ellen Lupton" appears in bubbles and giant letters.
Design Is Storytelling
Good design, like good storytelling, brings ideas to life. The latest book from award-winning writer Ellen Lupton is a playbook for creative thinking, showing designers how to use storytelling techniques to create satisfying graphics, products, services and experiences. Whether crafting a digital app or a data-rich publication, designers invite people to enter a scene and...
A large book, shaped like an oversized brick, in bright red, that says in all caps MAKING DESIGN along the spine, beside cooper hewitt logo, and the numbers 210,000 and 1145 on the front cover
Making Design
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...
Dark wood paneled staircase with large chandelier and extremely large bold type saying "LIFE OF A MANSION" in all caps.
Life of a Mansion
The story of the building that Cooper Hewitt calls home.