2022 National Design Awards: Product Design
Massive congrats to @cwandt for winning Product Design category of 2022 #NationalDesignAwards! Their work reaches from interactive software to human-scaled tools that enhance our relationships to work, life, and time. Learn more here: https://s.si.edu/2022NDA
2022 National Design Awards: Landscape Architecture
Huge Congratulations to Kounkuey Design Initiative, 2022 National Design Awards Landscape Architecture winner! KDI is committed to expanding equity and inclusivity in places that have long been overlooked or actively harmed by traditional design and planning approaches. Find out more about them here: https://s.si.edu/2022NDA
2022 National Design Awards: Digital Design
Massive 👏 for Felecia Davis, winner of Digital Design award at 2022 #NationalDesignAwards! Davis is a designer and researcher working to re-imagine how we might use textiles in our daily lives and in architecture through computational textiles. Learn more: https://s.si.edu/2022NDA
2022 National Design Awards: Communication Design
Huge congrats to Giorgia Lupi for winning Communication Design award at 2022 National Design Awards! Lupi is a partner at Pentagram and works to create a deeper understanding of the world around us through data, stories, and design. Learn more: https://s.si.edu/2022NDA
2022 National Design Awards: Architecture / Interior Design
Huge congratulations to Rural Studio, this year's winner of Architecture / Interior Design category of 2022 #NationalDesignAwards. Rural Studio is regarded as one of the oldest, most influential, and well-respected design-build programs in the world. Learn more: https://s.si.edu/2022NDA
2022 National Design Awards: Emerging Designer
As the first female designer to show at New York Fashion Week: Men’s, we are thrilled to congratulate Emily Adams Bode on her win in the Emerging Design category of the 2022 National Design Awards. Learn more about her here: https://s.si.edu/2022NDA
2022 National Design Awards: Design Visionary
Congratulations to Nader Tehrani, winner of the Design Visionary award of 2022 National Design Awards 👏👏 Tehrani is the founding principal of NADAAA, a practice dedicated to the advancement of design innovation, interdisciplinary collaboration, and an intensive dialogue with the construction industry. Tehrani’s work lies in building bridges between education and practice, creating healthy institutions to ensure equity, democracy, and education for all. Learn more: https://s.si.edu/2022NDA
Prosthetic leg prototype
Continuing our Disability Pride Month series, this 3D-printed artificial limb prototype represents the use of innovative digital manufacturing technology to meet the enduring need for prosthetics, which has been experienced by individuals around the world and at all economic levels. The form is derived from a 3D scan of the user's remaining leg, creating a unique prosthesis that restores body symmetry.
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Prosthetic leg prototype; Designed by Scott Summit; 2014
Free tickets for the first two weeks of July have just been released! Admission to Cooper Hewitt includes access to our incredible fashion exhibitions "Contemporary Muslim Fashions"; "Willi Smith: Street Couture"; and "Suzie Zuzek: the Prints That Made the Fashion Brand". All this, and more, is waiting for you!
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Fashion, Culture, Futures: Celebrating Black Bodies in Contemporary Fashion Panel
Fashion, Culture, Futures, a symposium focusing on the relationship between fashion and the African American experience, starts now! Watch the first panel discussion "Celebrating Black Bodies in Contemporary Fashion" here on our live Facebook stream!
Cooper Hewitt is reopening June 10th, with free admission to all—including to our special exhibition "Contemporary Muslim Fashions"! This pioneering exhibition examines how Muslim women—those who cover and those who do not—have become arbiters of style within and beyond their communities.
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"Contemporary Muslim Fashions" was organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
🎉 We have big news folks! Cooper Hewitt is reopening on June 10th! And to make this joyous news even better, we are reopening with free admission! 🎉
Your visit to the museum will be free of charge until Oct 31st, thanks to generous support from Cooper Hewitt’s Board of Trustees.
🎟 Reserve your free ticket and check out our safety guidelines at cooperhewitt.org. Any questions? PM us!
We can't wait to see you again! #DesignLivesHere