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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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

Book cover with a faint blue grid background. Single line contour drawing at bottom left abstractly depicts a stethescope, turning into hands, turning into geometric shapes in one hand and a heart in the other. Underlined text at top left reads: “Health Design Thinking.”

Health Design Thinking: Creating Products and Services for Better Health

Treasures from the Smithsonian Engagement Calendar 2021

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

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 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 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

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

Horizontal postcard booklet with blue and white title information on the left and an assemblage of design objects on the right in many colors

Object of the Day Postcard Book

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

By the People: Designing a Better America

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

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

Enwheeled: History, Design, and the Wheelchair

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

Joris Laarman Lab

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

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

Book cover with white black and gray computer icon-like illustrations of the books design themes inside a cross hatched black and white border all surrounding the title in cross hatched comic-like speech bubble

Design Is Storytelling

White book cover with partially colored black print of grinning fantastical creatures in a design of curvilinear plants. Book title at bottom in green and black serif font

Fragile Beasts Coloring Book

White book cover with illustration of colorfully patterned kites sailing above title in orange band across the bottom

I Heart Design Activity Book

Board book cover with six colorful design objects

D is for Design

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 colorful design showing several layers of seemingly ripped prints in red, blue strips, and purple polka dots. Title in white field near top right in san serif black font

How Posters Work Book

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

Book cover with illustrated image of a porcelain dog and handwritten title in white against a reddish orange background to the right of an orange spine

Ah-Ha To Zig-Zag: 31 Objects from Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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 black and white photograph of a gothic architectural detail showing columns with ornately carved capitals or caps below layered arches each with a different carved pattern. Title in all caps white serif letters at top

A Guide to Smithsonian Architecture

Book cover with golden patterned field with red title over an ornate gold and stone table on wood floor

Piranesi as Designer Paperback

Book cover with golden patterned field with red title over an ornate gold and stone table on wood floor

Piranesi as Designer Hardcover

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)

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 (2nd Edition)

Book cover with photograph of a work top with threads, tape and other design materials of a greenish blue grided cutting mat. Title in white field with black letters, serif font for vowels, san serif for consonants

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

Book cover with large photogaph of a dark skinned figure in a yello and orange floral dress sipping out of a body of water with a blue and light blue device above title in a white tall font

Design for the Other 90%

White book cover with title in tall, thin font in blue, gray, and yellow surrounded by images of a midcentury modern clock, black rotary telephone, and a modern architectural drawing

Design For Life

Square book cover with beige title in red field over a colorful accordion folded book on a green background

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