Exhibition Catalogs + Cooper Hewitt Publications

Catalogs and publications highlighting the evolution of design as seen in exhibitions at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

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Mossy green book cover with neon green, debossed title text, and a small b&w photograph of a weaving being made on a loom.

A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes

Textured blue book cover featuring a photograph of large 3D letters spelling “ACT” on a street, in front of a group of protestors holding signs. White title text overlaid reads “Designing Peace” “Building a Better Future Now.”

Designing Peace: Building a Better Future Now

The Architecture of Health: Hospital Design and the Construction of Dignity

The Architecture of Health: Hospital Design and the Construction of Dignity

A rectangular book cover, taupe with a full-length strip of dark green, textured binding on the left, and a sepia toned photograph showing the curvy iron art nouveau railings, entranceway and signage for a Paris Metro station against a pale image of a multi-story apartment building in the background. The book’s title appears to the left of one of the sign supports in four lines of white text.

Hector Guimard: Art Nouveau to Modernism

Cover of Herbert Bayer Inspiration and Process in Design featuring a composition book style cover with black bound spine. The upper portion of the cover is bright red with white text at bottom left that reads 'HERBERT BAYER Inspiration and Process in Design'. The lower half of the book is an image of a newspaper. A cone, sphere, and cube shaped objects are placed on top of the paper along with a pencil and square set ruler.

Herbert Bayer: Inspiration and Process in Design

Book cover featuring a gridded collage, set at an angle, of floral patterns, framing a black and white photo of a woman in a sun hat blowing a kiss to camera. An opaque pink rectangle with white title text is overlaid at center.

Suzie Zuzek for Lilly Pulitzer: The Artist Behind an Iconic American Fashion Brand, 1962-1985

Book cover with poster detail showing arching brown and yellow fields leading to a black and white image of a figure on wheeled contraption partially obscured in the bottom right. Title above in red and light blue bold sans serif letters

E. McKnight Kauffer: The Artist in Advertising

Rectangular book cover featuring a photograph of three fashion models. The two on the right wear oversized garments and headpieces with dramatic makeup while the model on the left wears graphic black-and-white fabric and sunglasses. Overlaid in white is the text "Willi Smith: Street Couture."

Willi Smith: Street Couture

Dark blue book cover with photograph of a figure wearing ornately patterned and embroidered dress and headcovering. Title overlaid in white modern font

Contemporary Muslim Fashions

White cover with a centered gold rectangle containing title and publisher information bordered by six rows of 23 images associated with notable American women including portraits, clothing, banners, posters, products, publications and inventions.

Smithsonian American Women: Remarkable Objects and Stories of Strength, Ingenuity, and Vision from the National Collection

Board book cover with six colorful design objects

D is for Design

Book cover featuring portrait photo of a white bearded medium dark skin figure in a blue suit with golden yellow tie. Title in lower case golden letters above

A Fool's Errand

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

Blue book cover with bold san serif title over opaque font detail pattern at the bottom

Enwheeled: History, Design, and the Wheelchair

The Senses: Design Beyond Vision catalog on white background. Grey cover with text in yellow, black, and white.

The Senses: Design Beyond Vision

Book cover with dense curvilinear maze like pattern punctuated by the title in black sans serif font

Joris Laarman Lab

Light gray book cover with photograph in bottom left showing a light green jewelry piece. Title information printed above in small serif font.

Jewelry of Ideas: The Susan Grant Lewin Collection

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

White book cover with low resolution images of design objects falling around title in black serif font

Top This and Other Parables of Design

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

Catalog cover of Tools: Extending our Reach. Yellow spine, natural chipboard face with "TOOLS" in white and centered image of a wood clip

Tools: Extending our Reach

Horizontal book cover with photograph of a warmly colored wood clad interior covered with bold san serif title information

Life of a Mansion

Pink book cover with white borders. "Making Design" in white san serif font on thick spine and "210,000" and "1145" on front cover

Making Design Limited Edition

Illustrated book cover with red cloth spine. Illustration shows two figures standing on a beach in red and white striped suits. Title information below in hand written black letters

My Favorite Things

White book cover with dense grid of colorful graphic design pieces and design objects. Title in upper right in black sans serif letters. Orange field to right with prize information not on actual cover.

Graphic Design: Now in Production

Book cover with gray image of a dimensional surface. Title in rounded white letters in an orange field

Skin: Surface, Substance, and Design

Book cover with white border around a transparent pink square over a white chandelier made of broken porcelain plates and heads. Title in center in white

Provoking Magic: Lighting of Ingo Maurer Signed Copy (1st Edition)

Design Life Now, SC

Design Life Now, SC

Book cover with photograph of hairy legs in Birkenstock standing on wooden floor in a nest of tangled cords. Title on top in a white field with black letters, serif font for vowels, san serif font for consonants

Design Life Now, HC

New Design From Israel

New Design From Israel

Square book cover with yellow title in orange field over a engraved piece of metal studded with jewels showing a dragon