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Mister Moggridge Has Mad Ambition

Believe it or not, the U.S. has a national design museum. This Englishman wants to make you care.READ»

SolPix: A Giant LED Display That Doubles as a Solar Shield

SolPix, a prototype for a combined media-wall/solar blind premieres at the Cooper-Hewitt.READ»

Do-Good Design: Incubators Made From Car Parts and More From Upcoming Cooper-Hewitt Triennial

A year ago I told myself that social design would thrive in reverse proportion to the stock market. As soon as the Dow hit 10,000, I suspected, designers would abandon their humanitarian projects and resume work on $6,000 pendants. ...READ»

Cooper-Hewitt Names Laptop Inventor and IDEO founder as Chief

A grand-daddy of interaction design will lead the National Design Museum.READ»

Fountain of Youth: Cooper-Hewitt's 2009 Awards Gala in Pictures

The design museum celebrated 10 years of its annual National Design Awards last week, but this year's gala buzzed with new life thanks to dozens of young, freshly-minted superstars named across design disciplines, including a new Interaction Design category.READ»

Piles Versus Files

Any way you stack it, some work is meant to be left out in the open.READ»

What Should I Tell Michelle Obama About Design?

The First Lady will host the National Design Award honorees at a White House reception this Friday.READ»

Introducing Guest Blogger Ellen Lupton: Welcoming Design Into Our Daily Lives

When I'm taking a weekend away from work, the last things I usually want to grab for reading materials are the design books sent to me from publishers that march like a Great Wall of Nice Typefaces across my desk. But there was ...READ»

Social Design Gets Its Own Curator

With the Cooper-Hewitt appointment, a design movement claims a more prominent place on the agenda.READ»

'Design for a Living World' Preview: 10 Products That Stay True to Their Origins

Can products nurture the people and place that produced them? Ten signature designers taking part in the Design for a Living World exhibition show how it might be done.READ»

The Real Election: This year’s Coolest Design

Sick of the presidential campaigns already? Here’s an election worth tuning in for: the Cooper Hewitt’s annual People’s Design Award competition.READ»