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2019 NDA Winners’ Salons: Design and the Body
In this 20 minute talk, Ivan Poupyrev (2019 Interaction Design Award Winner), and Derek Lam (2019 Fashion Design Award Winner) talk with Andrea Lipps, Cooper Hewitt Associate Curator for Contemporary Design on the topic “Design and the Body.”
2019 NDA Winners’ Salons: Empowerment Through Participatory Design
In this 20 minute talk, Amy Smith, founder, MIT D-Lab (2019 Corporate & Institutional Achievement Award Winner) talks with Cooper Hewitt Director of Digital and Emerging Media Carolyn Royston on the topic “Empowerment through Participatory Design.”
2019 NDA Winners’ Salons: Points, Picas, and Pixels
In this 20 minute talk, Tobias Frere-Jones (2019 Communication Design Award Winner), and Susan Kare (2019 Lifetime Achievement Award Winner), talk with Cooper Hewitt Director of Education Ruki Neuhold-Ravikumar on the topic “Points, Picas, and Pixels”.
2019 NDA Winners’ Salons: Storytelling through Design
In this 20 minute talk, famous Nike designer Tinker Hatfield (2019 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”.
2019 NDA Winners’ Salons: Why Inclusive Design Matters
In this 20 minute talk, winner of the 2019 Design Mind Award Patricia Moore and Pinar Guvenc, board member of Open Style Lab (Emerging Designer Award), talk with Cooper Hewitt Curatorial Director Cara McCarty speak on the topic “Why Inclusive Design Matters”.
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...
Tobias, a white man around forty with dark hair, dark eyes, wearing black-framed glasses and a black polo shirt. He's slightly smiling with his mouth closed.
NDA 20 YRS | Q&A with Tobias Frere-Jones
Tobias Frere-Jones, winner of the 2019 National Design Award for Communication Design, is one of the world’s leading typeface designers, creating some of the most widely used typefaces, including Interstate, Poynter Oldstyle, Whitney, Gotham, Surveyor, Tungsten, and Retina. He started designing letterforms in 1986 at the age of 16 and became a professional type designer...
Two architects in business clothing. Lisa is a smiling Asian-American woman in her thirties. Craig is a tall white man with short white hair
NDA 20 YRS | Q&A with Lisa Iwamoto and Craig Scott
IwamotoScott Architecture, winner of the 2019 National Design Award for Interior Design, is a San Francisco-based architecture and design firm founded by Lisa Iwamoto and Craig Scott in 2000. Committed to pursuing architecture as a form of applied design research, the firm believes that each project can achieve a unique design synthesis. Conceptual themes of...
Tinker is in a design studio. A white man in his sixties or seventies, he wears a hip brown fedora, cool glasses, a nice patterned shirt, and a blue vest.
NDA 20 YRS | Q&A with Tinker Hatfield
Tinker Hatfield is the recipient of the 2019 National Design Award for Product Design. After studying architecture at the University of Oregon, where he was coached by Nike co-founder Bill Bowerman, Hatfield joined Nike in 1981 and currently serves as vice president of creative concepts. Known for his inventive imagination, relentless drive toward improved performance...