Topic: Museums

What's In a Name -- Often Your Brand's Identity

An organization's name, logo, brand... their image, directly impacts peoples perception about it and how their products and services are valued. The same is true for museums.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»

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»

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»

Piles Versus Files

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

• Ellen Lupton's Design Your Life blog

Seattle Reboots Its Future

The leaders of the city that Bill Boeing and Bill Gates built are asking what it will take to thrive in the 21st century.READ»

Incoming!

Fresh faces from the front lines of design.READ»

Designing the Future

News typically doesn’t get blended in with art. Nor does the information in a lot of paintings, sculptures or other forms of art usually incorporate statistical or cerebral information. But an innovative new exhibit on display at ...READ»

Paola the Populist

The design universe revolves around a woman who loves Q-tips, Post-its, and The Twilight Zone.READ»

Museums with a Mission

What's the purpose of a museum? The old answer: to house and to display dead stuff -- the museum as mausoleum. The new answer: according to designer Ralph Appelbaum, to experience life and learning. He creates museums with a mission.READ»

Royal Honors for Starchitect I.M. Pei

Cheeky modernist I.M. Pei adds to his list of accolades with Britain's top architecture prize, the Royal Gold Medal. READ»

Tuck and Cover

This contraption will keep your desk clutter- and cord-freeREAD»

An Unlikely Story

Boston's Gardner Museum, where not a frame has budged since 1924, is spinning out hot new podcasts.READ»

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»

David Adjaye Chosen to Design D.C.'s National Museum of African-American History

Tanzanian born architect David Adjaye, working under the lead of Freelon Group, has been chosen to design the upcoming National Museum of African-American History in Washington, D.C. The pick is something of a surprise, since ...READ»

Global City of the Year: London

Where one of every eight works in a creative industry.READ»

• 10 Things You Don't Know About London
• Fast Cities 2008

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»

Museum of Chinese in America Opens Doors

Picture it: a monolithic testament to Chinese culture in America, ensconced in the middle of New York's Chinatown and built by one of the leading Chinese-American designers in the world. This MOCA isn't in LA, Massachusetts, ...READ»

Africa Technology and Investment Digest 10

Subscribe to Appfrica via E-mail | Appfrica.org A Breakdown of the Costs of Doing Business in Africa The goal of this article is to provide insight for those of you interested in starting businesses in Africa. I’ll break down ...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»

6 Scintillating Proposals for the National Museum of African-American History and Culture

It's a plain truth that national museums in the U.S. have been humdrum at best, composed mainly of bricks and compromises. But if the six shortlisted designs for Washington, D.C.'s new National Museum of African-American History ...READ»

New Acropolis Museum in the Shadow of the Ancients

If you've ever been to the Acropolis in Athens and marveled over the perfectly proportioned design of the Parthenon, you probably also shuffled over to the nearby by Acropolis Museum and were ...READ»

Consider This: Art in Healthcare Makes Patients Feel Better

1.Art installed throughout healthcare facilities makes everyone feel better! Art in hospitals, clinics, examining rooms and offices is widely recognised as a valuable asset to healing and a testament to the quality of care being ...READ»

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»

• Presenting the 2008 Fast 50
• The World's Most Innovative Companies
• The Faces and Voices of Google

The Creative Odyssey

How idea companies get their ideas.READ»