Watt Watchers
The PSA’s have been espousing “The More You Know” for two decades, and the designers in this year’s Triennial agree. Some of their most innovative designs are about becoming a little more aware of our...
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Green Burials: Recycling our Loved Ones
Over the next two weeks on the Cooper-Hewitt Design Blog, students from an interdisciplinary graduate-level course on the Triennial taught by the Triennial curatorial team blog their impressions and...
View ArticleThe Product Nutrition Label Revealed: Q+A with Joe Gebbia
Joe Gebbia is a San Francisco-based industrial designer and self-described “designtrepreneur,” as well as founding partner of the green materials consultancy Ecolect.
View ArticleThe Product Nutrition Label Revealed: Q+A with Joe Gebbia
Joe Gebbia is a San Francisco-based industrial designer and self-described “designtrepreneur,” as well as founding partner of the green materials consultancy Ecolect.
View ArticleDesigning Discussion
There is no shortage of practical objects in the 2010 Triennial. You will see everything from noble solutions for global issues, to networking sites that ensure our most mundane thoughts never go...
View ArticleDesigning Discussion
There is no shortage of practical objects in the 2010 Triennial. You will see everything from noble solutions for global issues, to networking sites that ensure our most mundane thoughts never go...
View ArticleE/S Orcelle Container Ship: "Delivering The Future Ahead of Schedule"
If there is one design on view at the 2010 Triennial that affects the lives of every American, it is the E/S Orcelle container ship. It is designed as a response to impending changes in the shipping...
View ArticleMIT's CityCar and the Future of Uncertain
Just what, exactly, is MIT’s CityCar?It is a car, yes, and a tiny one at that. It looks a bit like a jellybean and it’s stackable, like a grocery cart.
View ArticleArmadillo Suits, Soil Lamps, Folded Bikes, Oh My!
This year the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum’s Triennial: Why Design Now? explores topics of sustainable design. Current global climate changes and economic slumps have provided a platform for...
View ArticleA Tree Grows In The Backyard
Despite the 21st century’s advances in science, technology and medicine, no one has yet been able to conquer death. As it has throughout history, death remains the great leveler, for kings and junkies,...
View ArticleGrowing Respect for Dirt
A new project by Marieke Staps highlights the emerging interest among designers to devise inexpensive and ecologically sound solutions to ordinary problems. Soil Lamp signals a new environmental...
View ArticleWhy Design Now? Conference, October 1st
There was a deluge at dawn on Friday, canceling many trains and tempting people to stay at home, in spite of their commitment to arrive at Jazz at Lincoln Center by 9:00 am for the start of the WHY...
View Article"Why Design Now" - Triennial Highlights
Sunday January 9th was the last day of our National Design Triennial, open since May 14th. How can almost nine months go so fast?
View ArticleCooper-Hewitt: Fashion Life Now
New York Times fashion critic Cathy Horyn leads fashion designers Narciso Rodriguez, Ralph Rucci and Maria Cornejo in a panel discussion about the state of fashion today. These designers, all featured...
View ArticleWhy Design Now?: E/S Orcelle cargo carrier
Why? Oceangoing ships present significant health, pollution, and efficiency challenges. The concept vessel E/S Orcelle is designed to be propelled without oil. Made of lightweight materials, it relies...
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