Past Exhibitions

Explore a selection of designs and publications related to past exhibitions at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

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Olive green carafe featuring a stout body and narrow rimmed tip. A marked is stamped at the base and resembles a coin.

ZandGlas Carafe

Large olive green colored glass. The body if the glass is short in height and a wide base. The glass is marked at center front in a shaped that resembles a coin.

ZandGlas Large Glass

4 transparent water glasses in magenta, gray, blue, and yellow. The glasses are stacked.

CMYK Alpha Water Tumbler Set

White book cover with colorful illustrations of pixar characters and a red band with white title bisecting the middle

Designing with Pixar

Braun Ladies' Slim Analog Watch, White Face with Link Band

Its slim, 38 mm stainless steel case houses a clear, uncluttered face with a yellow second hand beneath a scratch-resistant mineral crystal. The case segues smoothly to a stainless steel bracelet.

Braun Men's Slim Analog Watch, White Face with Link Band

Platygyra Poster

Platygyra Poster

A poster shows microscopic views of the ridges of coral. The forms are in hues of pink, turquoise, yellow, and green.

Coscinaraea Poster

A poster shows microscopic views of the ridges of coral. The forms are in hues of pink, turquoise, yellow, and green.

Montipora Poster

A poster featuring a photo of several blue planes in the sky. Overlaid on the image is a sketch of a cloud with the words "Ask for Help" in black letters.

James Victore "Ask for Help" Poster

Printed in brown ink against a white background, the front of a card is covered in a cloud pattern. Illustrations of dragons are layered over the clouds and bleeding off the edges.

Dragons in Clouds Greeting Card

Printed in brown ink against a white background, the front of a card is covered in wavy rows of grass. Repeating Illustrations of rabbit medallions are layered over the grass and bleed off the edges.

Rabbit Medallions Greeting Card

Book cover with photographs of square cloths with red paisley patterns laid over an enlarged detail of a similar pattern. Title in white italicized script font near the top

Victorian Paisley Shawls

White book cover that has four lines of large text that says "Nature: Collab-orations in Design" laid over an amorphous shape that is a gradient of vibrant blue and orange.

Nature: Collaborations in Design

Book cover with photograph of three family members one on a bicycle one on three-wheeled peddled vehicle towing their child on a busy street scene. Title in white letters in yellow and green fields

Going Green: Experiencing the Ecomobile Lifestyle

Made by Rain Book; black cover with a few small splashes of white and smaller off-white booklet layered over, with the title in blue [traveling concept #1 booklet]

Made by Rain Book

Book cover showing gold and silver metalwork of a classical figure with art deco ornamentation. Title vertically rotated in sans serf font in navy blue field to the left

The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s - Hardcover

Blue book cover with diagonal white lines around white title information and a black and white photograph of a modern chair design

Paul T. Frankl Autobiography

Book with a tan cover, and five untensils, the text and objects are all dark brown.

The Hard Life: Jasper Morrison

Spread of five media pieces, a pink spiral bound book titled "government in plain sight" a white and red illustrated book called "what the cell?" a DVD with the same title, a yellow book with an illustration titled "Field Guide to Federalism" and a white book with red white and blue illustrations titled "The Deciders"

CUP Classics Box Set for Educators

A series of colorful foldout posters on Public Policy.

Making Policy Public Posters Box Set

Book cover with images rendered in tones of blue red and purple. Title in white bisects the middle

By the People: Designing a Better America

Book cover with black and white photograph of two figures one with their arm around the other and a gilded numeral 'one' with scalloped bulbous edges

The Haas Brothers

Book cover with image of seemingly crumpled or warped paper with the word' beauty' printed in several places and iridescent patches in the letters and subtitle at top

Beauty - Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial

Set in Style: The Jewelry of Van Cleef & Arpels

Set in Style: The Jewelry of Van Cleef & Arpels - Hardcover

Set in Style: The Jewelry of Van Cleef & Arpels - Paperback

Set in Style: The Jewelry of Van Cleef & Arpels - Paperback

Monochrome rec bandana decorated with patterns of paisley.

Square silk scarf features blue and black vibrant patterns of sound over a white background.

SHOP Exclusive Cymatic Scarf

Made By Rain Scarf Small in Dark Blue, looped at the top with the ends hanging down. The material is silky, and splattered with raindrops.

Made by Rain Scarf Small