My Favorite Piece: Liz Lapidus, Atlanta Apr 5, 2008
Lapidus published an autobiography, "Too Much Is Not Enough," and was honored as an American Original by the Smithsonian Institution's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Joey Ivansco / Staff. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Home & Garden)
Beware new front in culture wars Mar 27, 2008
It is a science, technology, industry and design museum. Its greatest attractions are a celebration of man's ingenuity and it pays homage to cars and aircraft and space travel. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Powerhouse Dawn Mar 22, 2008
Dawn Casey - the new director of the Powerhouse Museum and, coincidentally, one of the nation's most accomplished indigenous administrators, male or female - takes just 10 seconds to list the things she has to fix as the incoming head of Australia's leading science, technology and design museum. Fortunately, it doesn't take her any longer to identify the solution. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Hand-powered laptop for poorer countries wins design award Mar 19, 2008
Yves B;har, designer of the One Laptop Per Child, was awarded the prize at the Design Museum in London last night by inventor James Dyson ... B;har said the award was the "icing on the cake" for an ongoing project described by Deyan Sudjic, the Design Museum's director, as "a good deed in a cruel world" ... It and the other 100 shortlisted designs can be seen at the Design Museum until April 27. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
Art appreciation - Maurer's career began with St. Mary's honors class Mar 15, 2008
Randy Maurer posed last week with one of his favorite pieces at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York: a fireplace designed by the French Art Nouveau designer Hector Guimard, c. 1895-1900 ... When the Herald-Dispatch spoke to Maurer on Friday morning, he was sitting in front of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum across from Central Park. (Sleepy Eye Herald Dispatch, MN)
Look! It's the brand new face of China Mar 9, 2008
Jean Prouv; Design Museum, London; until 13 April Welcome retrospective for the great French designer. Blake's Shadow Whitworth Gallery, Manchester; until 20 April William Blake's influence on contemporaries, Victorians and Modernists. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
Review: Landscapes, tourism at Cantor Center Mar 9, 2008
The three who form the focus of this show, which was organized by the Smithsonian Institution's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, stirred wanderlust across a wide geographical swath. The scenic wonders on view include Maine's rocky coastline, Niagara Falls, the Catskill and Adirondack mountains, Yosemite, Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Cities on the edge of chaos Mar 9, 2008
Deyan Sudjic, director of the Design Museum and author of a major new report, asks if the city of the future will be a vision of hell or a force for civilised living. Sunday March 9, 2008. (Guardian Unlimited)
Hollis Sponsorship Awards: FA Cup Sponsor wins the Trophy Mar 4, 2008
Matthew Williamsons 10 years in Fashion at the Design Museum sponsored by Coutts & Co.. CHARITY, COMMUNITY & THE ENVIRONMENT SPONSORSHIP supported by the NCVO. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
All the world's a playground Feb 25, 2008
By all accounts a great success, it arrives at London's Design Museum in spring for a four-month run ... It opens at the Design Museum, London, on April 24. (Guardian Unlimited)
Manolo Blahnik Shoes Feb 20, 2008
In 2003 the Design Museum in London had an exhibition of Manolo's work. In addition two books of his work were published. (Suite101.com)
HK creativity showcased at Toronto Feb 10, 2008
According to a press release from the department, the exhibition was held in Toronto's Design Exchange, which is described as Canada's design center and design museum. The "Chinese Design, Everyday" exhibition which is sponsored by the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (HKETO) in Toronto, aims to provide a foundation for understanding design in China. (Xinhuanet, China)
Feature story: Exploring America Feb 9, 2008
The museum is hosting "Tourism and the American Landscape," an exhibit that features the three artists and was organized by the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum at the Smithsonian Institution in New York. It includes studio paintings and drawings, as well as less formal oil sketches that give the viewer an eye into the artistic process. (Palo Alto Online, CA)
Hotelier Andre Balazs Flaunts Tropical Jungle House in London Exhibition Feb 8, 2008
The house is now outside London's riverside Tate Modern as part of an exhibition at the Design Museum, a short walk along the Thames: ``Jean Prouve -- the Poetics of the Technical Object'' (through April 13. . (Bloomberg -- UK)
Tropical house comes to the Thames Jan 20, 2008
The historic colonial building, a kind of flatpack pioneer, has been brought to Britain for the first time by the Design Museum in partnership with Tate Modern ... The Prouv; house project is an extension of the Design Museum's current exhibition about the architect's life and work and is intended to demonstrate the scale and economy of his vision ... Jean Prouv; - The Poetics of the Technical Object' is at the Design Museum until 13 April. (Guardian Unlimited)
Battle ahead for 'cigarette pack' books Jan 16, 2008
Abridged works and short stories by Kafka and Conrad, Tolstoy and Kipling, Hemingway and Stevenson, which looked like packs of 20 cigarettes, were duly distributed through bookshops and the Design Museum. The books, released as Tales to Take Your Breath Away at the start of the cigarette ban in pubs and restaurants last July, were well received by the design press and have made popular Christmas presents. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Obituary: Ettore Sottsass, postmodern designer and Memphis figure Jan 3, 2008
In March, the Design Museum in London devoted an exhibition to his work called "Work in Progress." In September, both the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Friedman Benda gallery in New York featured his pieces in exhibitions. Today in Europe. (International Herald Tribune)
Rare Armenian manuscripts dazzle and delight Dec 12, 2007
"Le Corbusier The Art of Architecture" is being held in the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, near Basel. According to the curators, Le Corbusier remains a "highly significant and relevant for today's architectural discourse" with his work being "an important point of reference for contemporary architecture and urbanism". (SwissInfo.org, Switzerland)
Can Luqman Arnold save Northern Rock? Dec 9, 2007
He is also known for his creative leanings he loves opera, is passionately interested in architecture and is chairman of the Design Museum. ARNOLD is certainly being creative in his bid for control of Northern Rock. (Times Online)
Le Corbusier Dec 8, 2007
swissinfo - Swiss news and information platform about Switzerland, business, culture, sport, weather. December 7, 2007 - 11:10 AM. (SwissInfo.org, Switzerland)
Mary Walker Phillips, at 83; give art of knitting new life Nov 21, 2007
Exhibited worldwide, her work (which also includes avant-garde macram ) is in the permanent collections of major museums including the Museum of Modern Art, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Mary Walker Phillips was born in Fresno on Nov. 23, 1923, to a prominent family descended from California pioneers. (Boston Globe)
Smithsonian home products hit stores Nov 18, 2007
Bernhardt Furniture Co. of Lenoir, N.C., has begun rolling out the initial furniture line of mostly wood and leather pieces, based on designs found in the original Smithsonian Castle building and the institution's Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum in New York. The Smithsonian Collection by Bernhardt carries the institution's logo and includes two lines of furniture. (Anchorage Daily News)
This discussion is tabled Nov 18, 2007
The 1972 Frank Gehry design, in recycled corrugated cardboard (at right), has been reissued by Germany's Vitra Design Museum. It's $498 through the museum store. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Sculptural Exhibition Space Promotes Local Designers Nov 4, 2007
I believe in order to encourage our local creative commodities, we need a more permanent exhibition space similar to the trade show exhibition space or even like the Cooper Hewitt's National Design Museum in New York, USA.. Andra Matin's skillful space manipulation shows us that the creative industry needs to receive higher appreciation. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
Virtual princess, designed to fit the story Oct 31, 2007
Welcome to The Sydney Morning Herald. Elizabeth FarrellyOctober 31, 2007. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Gender pay gap Oct 30, 2007
The private bank is also making a niche for itself by linking finance to fashion, and is sponsoring an exhibition of designer Matthew Williamson's work at London's Design Museum. But Catherine Tillotson, a partner at the wealth management consultancy Scorpio Partnership, says private banks are often guilty of "wrap[ping] up their services in pink ... now it's becoming [clearer] the issue is not about whether women should be treated differently. [Banks need] a different marketing approach, rather... (Guardian Unlimited -- Money)
Prints charming: Williamson turns 10 Oct 17, 2007
Matthew Williamson, the British fashion designer, is today honoured with a major retrospective at the Design Museum, marking the 10th anniversary of his label and sealing his transition from young pretender to catwalk heavyweight ... Donna Loveday, head of exhibitions at the Design Museum, chose Williamson both for his distinctive aesthetic - she describes him as "one of the most experimental designers with colour and print" - and for his remarkable commercial success. (Guardian Unlimited)
Jenna Bush Begins Tour For First Book Oct 1, 2007
While her sister Barbara, who works at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York, maintains a low profile, Jenna has begun to reveal her devotion to education and helping the underprivileged. She said she never had a reason to interact with the media until she had something important to say - and now she does. (Click2Houston, TX)
A Journey of Hope Sep 30, 2007
While Barbara, who works at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York, maintains a low profile, Jenna has begun to reveal her passion for education and helping the underprivileged. She taught elementary grades at a charter school in Washington, D.C. before going to Central and South America as an intern for UNICEF.. (Fox News)
In Brooklyn, Carib art show aims to be good neighbor and good art Sep 27, 2007
--"Piranesi as Designer," Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, through Jan. 20: Piranesi was a printmaker in the 18th century, and was highly influential on both his contemporaries as well as on architects today. --"Provoking Magic: Lighting of Ingo Maurer," Cooper-Hewitt, through Jan. 27: This is a retrospective of the four-decade career of German lighting designer Ingo Maurer, featuring some of the site-specific installations he created. (North County Times)
Be your own design critic in People's Design Award contest Sep 27, 2007
New York's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum is giving the public a chance to nominate and vote on items both humble and high concept at in the second annual People's Design Award contest. There is a long list of contenders, including Apple's iPhone, Fender's Telecaster guitar and the automobile seat belt. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Cooper-Hewitt Develops Tools for Educators in Celebration of National Design Week Sep 22, 2007
NEW YORK, Sept. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum will host its second annual National Design Week from Oct. 14 through Oct. 20. The museum will offer a series of public programs and a range of online resources for students, teachers, design professionals and the general public to celebrate the important role that design plays in all aspects of daily life. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Williamson at 10 years: 'Where are my peers now?' Sep 20, 2007
Williamson at 10 years: 'Where are my peers now. - International Herald Tribune. (International Herald Tribune)
The Canadian Museum for Human Rights Invites Ontarians to Make History Sep 19, 2007
The design for the Museum is proposed by Antoine Predock, Architect, winner of the 2006 Gold Medal from the American Institute of Architects, recipient of the 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum in Washington, D.C. and winner of the the International Architectural Competition launched by the Friends of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. The Canadian Museum for Human Rights will redefine the meaning of the word "Museum" and its award winning design will provide... (Canada Newswire)
Love it or loathe it, Memphis style with its color and kitsch is back Sep 17, 2007
Thomas Dix/Vitra Design Museum 'Carlton cabinet,' designed by Ettore Sottsass for Memphis in 1981. Text Size. (International Herald Tribune)
Autumn events in Providence Sep 17, 2007
The Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art presents a festival Sept. 15-Jan. 15 showcasing silent films and recent music videos with a focus on the "musicality of the moving image and narrative innovation.". (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Queen Luella conquers London Sep 16, 2007
Matthew Williamson's work will be marked at a party at the Design Museum. Model Agyness Deyn will DJ at the Boombox club; on Tuesday an M.A.C party will launch the Boombox book. (Guardian Unlimited)
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Opens Voting for 2007 People's Design Award Sep 15, 2007
Source: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum ... NEW YORK, Sept. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Whether an everyday object, a design classic or an architectural landmark, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum invites the public to express their views on what constitutes good design as part of the 2007 National Design Awards program ... Source: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Emphasize Earning, Dump Dependency Sep 13, 2007
The "Design for the Other 90 Percent" exhibit at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum here is now in its last few days, and I suspect few of you will be able to visit it, so here is the executive summary: Poor people are not helpless. Among the products at the exhibit: the Super MoneyMaker Pump, a user-powered treadle pump -- it operates like a gym stair-stepper -- that allows a farmer, or his children, to irrigate two acres in eight hours. (Townhall.com)
Ingo Maurer: The magic of his light years Sep 3, 2007
His achievements are to be celebrated in an exhibition opening next week at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York. The exhibition's title, "Provoking Magic," is unusually apt. (International Herald Tribune)
More of this story Aug 18, 2007
Decades later, the Bradbury appeared in the futuristic Blade Runner film, and the space Morono and Kiang renovated was previously occupied by the Architecture and Design Museum. Morono and Kiang focused on the exhibits with Gallery Curator Pilar Perez, who was previously the director at Track 16 Gallery at Bergamot Station. (Los Angeles Downtown News, CA)
Wedding bells as Jenna Bush set to tie knot Aug 17, 2007
She lives in Greenwich Village and works with a Smithsonian museum in New York, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Before that she worked with patients with Aids-related diseases in Tanzania, South Africa and Botswana. (Times Online)
Breaking out of the mold at the ICA Aug 16, 2007
The world of design will be highlighted in several talks, offered in conjunction with the National Design Triennial exhibit that opens Sept. 28 at the ICA. The exhibit, organized by the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, presents innovative recent American designs. The talks include a discussion about new voices in design on Dec. 13 with graphic designer and curator Ellen Lupton, Harvard architect Toshiko Mori, and others. (Boston Globe)
Chairs sitting pretty as a design icon, but for how long? Aug 12, 2007
100 chairs from the collection of the Vitra Design Museum ... Design museums are stuffed with them, and so are design history books, magazines and auction catalogues ... Another factor is that the world's great design museums have also had a predilection toward furniture, which is rooted in their history. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
N.Y. college students become museum guides Aug 2, 2007
College students design museum tours - US and Canada - MSNBC.com ... College students design museum tours. (MSNBC -- Travel)
Under (or Near) The Boardwalk Jul 20, 2007
headline the seventh annual hipster's delight (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Meet the IDEA Jury Jul 20, 2007
Prior to that she was the curatorial director of Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, also in New York City ... Under his leadership, Aveda was awarded the 2004 National Design Award for Corporate Achievement from the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum ... In 2003 and 2006 Antenna was a finalist for the National Design Award in Product Design from the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. (BusinessWeek)
This "Green" Bag Is Way Too Cool Jul 19, 2007
The latest editions were up for sale July 18 a blue version at Whole Foods supermarkets in the New York metropolitan area and a green and gray style at The Design Museum in London. Meanwhile, Hindmarch has been forced to move sales of some of the bags online to avoid ugly incidents at stores in Southeast Asia. (CBS News)
5 compete to design museum Jul 19, 2007
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Johnson Fain Designs Museum Tower in Dallas Arts District, an Architecturally Significant Zone Jul 17, 2007
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Scott Johnson, FAIA, design partner of Johnson Fain, a leading architecture, planning and interiors firm based in Los Angeles, has been selected to design Museum Tower in Dallas, Texas, a 42-story condominium building in the heart of the Dallas Arts District among a quartet of architecturally significant buildings. ADVERTISEMENT. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Lisbon: A slice of European culture at a budget price Jul 15, 2007
On the western extreme is Belm, where old meets new with its Belm Tower, a UNESCO World Heritage Site that was an offshore watchtower to protect the city's harbor (or as some of the locals say, "to keep an eye on the Spaniards"), and the ultra-modern Cultural Center of Belm, which holds art exhibitions and the location of the Design Museum. Also in Belm is the Mosteiro dos Jeronimos, a grand monastery that took 70 years to complete, mostly financed through the spice trade and currently the... (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
Hungry for more than art Jul 8, 2007
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum has a secluded lawn with looming trees, gardens, and tables on the periphery for enjoying lunch from the tiny cafe where no sandwich or salad costs more than $10 ... Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum 91st Street at 5th Avenue. (Boston Globe)
Playing with furniture Jul 2, 2007
Vitra now works with designers on furniture and objects, and commissions architects to contribute to its architectural treasure chest at Weil-am-Rhein, which already has a conference center by the Japanese architect Tadao Ando, a design museum by Gehry and a fire station by Hadid ... Other designers used the project as a chance to experiment with the changing role that furniture plays in our lives, a theme that some have also explored in MyHome, the latest exhibition at the neighboring Vitra... (International Herald Tribune)
Porsche's best of the best ... Jun 29, 2007
Porsche's 911 Targa 4 has received a 'Best of the Best' award for excellent design from the Red Dot Design Museum of the North-Rhine Westfalian Design Centre ... As an award-winner, the 911 Targa 4 will be showcased in the special 'Design on Stage Winners Red Dot Award: Product Design 2007' display in the Essen Red Dot Design Museum at the Zollverein Coal Mine, one of the worlds cultural heritages, from June 26-July 23. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Media Advisory - Astronomical "Star Wars" exhibit bold & first-ever for Canada Jun 28, 2007
ABOUT THE DX: The Design Exchange (DX) is Canada's design museum, with a mission to engage and educate Canadians about the value of design. It recognizes Canadian design and innovation as key elements in the cultural and economic fabric of our lives. (Canada Newswire)
An idea to get young people on board Jun 20, 2007
The jigsaw, sniffs London's Design Museum founder Stephen Bayley , is "a puerile mess, an artistic flop, and a commercial scandal." The IOC loves it, though, and the organizers, who spent nearly $800,000 creating the logo, are undaunted. "It's vital that we reach out to those young people in a language that they understand and in technology that's familiar to them," says committee chief Sebastian Coe. (Boston Globe)
Luigi Colani: Translating Nature Jun 18, 2007
One of the most influential designers of the past half-century, Luigi Colani, is the subject of an exhibition at the Design Museum in London. With a career spanning almost six decades, Colani has applied his unique design style to produce cars, trucks, boats, aircraft, ceramics and consumer goods, as well as creating futuristic concepts for as-yet unrealized transport systems and architecture. (BusinessWeek)
Anyone for Fun 'n' games Jun 14, 2007
The AP reports this obligatory quote from London's Design Museum founder, Stephen Bayley, who said the logo was "a puerile mess, an artistic flop and a commercial scandal." We are pretty sure we have used those previous 10 words in that order before. Bite is worse than bark: Bjorn Borg was severely bitten in the leg by a German shepherd while trying to stop a dogfight, forcing the former Swedish tennis great to withdraw from his first grass-court match in 26 years. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA -- Sports)
London chiefs defend controversial logo Jun 7, 2007
London's Design Museum founder Stephen Bayley said the logo was a puerile mess, an artistic flop and a commercial scandal. . (The Star Online, Malaysia -- Sports)
* Animated London 2012 logo pulled over epilepsy fears Jun 7, 2007
London's Design Museum founder Stephen Bayley said the logo was "a puerile mess, an artistic flop and a commercial scandal.". Chief organizer Sebastian Coe said the graffiti-style design was created to draw the attention of young people. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
Olympic logo gets thumbs down Jun 5, 2007
Stephen Bayley, art critic and founder of the London Design Museum, described the logo in The Guardian newspaper as a "puerile mess, an artistic flop and a commercial scandal". The symbol cost around 400,000 ($A954,000) and took one year for design company Wolff Olins to think up. (Sydney Morning Herald)
Edgy symbol or artistic flop - Olympic logo unveiled Jun 5, 2007
Stephen Bayley, founder of the Design Museum, described it as feeble, a "puerile mess, an artistic flop and a commercial scandal", while message boards condemned it as a "broken swastika". Created by the brand consultants Wolff Ollins, the logo emerged after eight months of consumer-testing by focus groups. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
Place your bets for when Atlantis will launch Jun 1, 2007
NY Times-- The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum is who are trying to help the world's poor. Carrying water, which girls and women must balance on their heads in heavy cans, is alleviated by the Q-Drum, which holds 20 gallons and rolls like a tire on a string. (USA Today -- Tech)
Isbella Blow: A truly original style icon May 10, 2007
In 2002, an exhibition entitled When Philip Met Isabella at London's Design Museum celebrated the collaboration with the milliner. Blow was still working with Treacy on developing the show at the time of her death. (Independent)
* Style supremoIsabella Blowdies of cancer May 10, 2007
" Treacy lived for two years in her mother-in-law's basement flat, and she commissioned his first wedding hat, for her wedding to the artist Detmar Blow in 1989. In 2002 her vast collection of his hats, including one that moved every time she spoke and one with 100 veils made for the funeral of a cousin so that the veiling would absorb the tears, became the subject of an exhibition at the London Design Museum, and a book, When Philip Met Isabella. She was also admirer, muse and freelance... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
