Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Christina L. De León is Cooper Hewitt’s acting deputy director of curatorial and inaugural associate curator of Latino design. Since 2017, she has grown the museum’s collection of U.S. Latin...

https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2024/10/28/5-questions-with-christina-l-de-leon/

“Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial,” opening Nov. 2 at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, features 25 debut commissions that illustrate the ways design is embedded in contempo...

https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2024/10/01/making-home/

Lean into the shifting season with this selection of autumnal objects from Cooper Hewitt’s permanent collection. The post Autumn in New York first appeared on Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Desi...

https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2024/09/12/autumn-in-new-york/

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum today announced the appointment of Elissa Black as deputy director, effective Sept. 9. Deeply experienced in both the non-profit and for-profit sectors, B...

https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2024/09/04/elissa-black-joins-cooper-hewitt-as-deputy-director/

A look at the specific challenges and opportunities of collecting and displaying digital media. The post A Closer Look: What Fun Is a Font if You Can’t Play with It? first appeared on Cooper...

https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2024/08/23/font-kiosk/

Discover a collection of designs for stoves invented and produced by Ollivier’s Manufactory during the tumultuous period of the French Revolution. The post How to Sell a Heater During a Revol...

https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2024/08/13/how-to-sell-a-heater-during-a-revolution/

How do symbols represent communities? The post Symbols as Synecdoche: Creating Community Identity first appeared on Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum .

https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2024/08/08/symbols-as-synecdoche-creating-community-identity/

This fall, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum will present “Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial.” Featuring 25 site-specific, newly commissioned installations, the exhibition exp...

https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2024/08/06/cooper-hewitt-announces-making-home-smithsonian-design-triennial/

Cooper Hewitt's mount maker discusses the challenges of displaying an object with a complex surface structure. The post A Closer Look: Displaying a Medical Model first appeared on Cooper Hewit...

https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2024/07/22/displaying-a-medical-model/

Henry Dreyfuss's team collected thousands of symbols for the Symbol Sourcebook. What might a Symbol Sourcebook, crowdsourced in 2024 with your submissions, look like? The post Our Search for Sy...

https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2024/07/11/our-search-for-symbols-2024/