Topic: Cooper-Hewitt Museum

Social Design Gets Its Own Curator

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

Piles Versus Files

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

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Free Advice

I was just wandering around the blogosphere, looking for good design-related blogs (nominate your favorites here), and found this collection of advice from designers, collected by Ellen Lupton, the curator of contemporary design at ...READ»

Weekend Design Porn: "Design USA" at the Cooper-Hewitt

The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum opens "Design USA," showing off winners of the National Design Awards in the last 10 years.READ»

Design Thursday: What’s Good Design? You Decide.

Enough with the design pundits! The Cooper-Hewitt, America’s national design museum, thinks the people deserve a voice in anointing the world’s best-designed products. In anticipation of National Design Week (Oct. 14-20), the ...READ»

Futuristic Z!n Hearing Aid Bags People's Design Award

Recognized as an unprecedented marriage of design and technological innovation, Stuart Karten's Z!n hearing aid walked away with this year's Cooper-Hewitt People's Design Award.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»

Introducing Guest Blogger Stuart Karten: Advice to the Design-Challenged

Around the halls at the the L.A. Chapter of IDSA, among folks at USC's program in Medical Device and Diagnostic Engineering, and at the offices at the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, most people know Stuart Karten as the founder of the ...READ»

Design Thursday: Ingo Maurer's Light Fantastic

You may not know the name of Ingo Maurer, the celebrated German lighting designer, but you probably know his work. If you’ve ever been to New York at Christmas, and seen the UNICEF crystal snowflake that hangs at the intersection ...READ»

Masters of Design: A Jury of Their Peers

Introducing 11 jurors -- top leaders from universities, cultural institutions, and business -- who helped us select our 20 Masters of Design.READ»

Masters of Design: Geoff McFetridge

Founder, Champion GraphicsREAD»

Time and Identity: What Your Clock Says About Your Personality

It's always running out. Some ways to make the most of what we have left.READ»

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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»

Masters of Design: John Maeda

Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, MITREAD»

When Design Is Too Good: Stunning Border Signage Is Deemed a Threat

A daring new sign at the U.S.-Canada border is being dismantled after officials decided it was a target for terrorists. Ellen Lupton asks designer Michael Bierut why.READ»

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Seeing and Being Seen

Whether it's home-based or a third place, it's all about being visible in your workspace.READ»

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Fast 50 2008: Target

Target's strategy of rolling out capsule collections by well-known designers -- Loeffler Randall shoes and handbags, Erin Fetherston sweaters, Alice Temperley sportswear, Jovovich Hawk dresses -- has been a tried-and-true strategy ...READ»

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The Visibility Principle

What's the key to organization and productivity? You'll see.READ»

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

Mind the Gap: Designing for the In-Between Spaces

The magic of animation is actually found in those tiny spaces between images which blend together to bring the story to life.READ»

• Karin Fong's The In-Between Spaces blog

5 Ways Design Thinking Can Raise the Collective IQ of Your Business

A panel held as part of National Design Week addressed ways to integrate designers, and design thinking, into organizations that usually resist change.READ»

The Art of Looking Busy

Seeing just enough of your coworkers is the key to effective collaboration.READ»

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Read Between the Frames: 5 Books for Visual Thinkers

Have a spare moment? Here’s a selection of favorite books that explore the idea of crossing transitional space, each with its own take on what lies in-between.READ»

• Karin Fong's The In-Between Spaces blog

Lost in Translation: Five Words We Should Import

Karin Fong collects words that aren't translatable to the English language and makes flashcards for them.READ»

• Karin Fong's The In-Between Spaces blog

2009 National Design Award Winners: A Whirlwind Tour

The National Design Awards, adminstered by the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, are the most prestigious in the U.S. The 2009 winners were just announced. Some of them you may have heard of, others you probably haven't ...READ»