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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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

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

Contemporary Muslim Fashions

Contemporary Muslim Fashions

Life of a Mansion

Life of a Mansion

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

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

The Senses: Design Beyond Vision

Enwheeled: History, Design, and the Wheelchair

Enwheeled: History, Design, and the Wheelchair

Jewelry of Ideas: The Susan Grant Lewin Collection

Jewelry of Ideas: The Susan Grant Lewin Collection

By the People: Designing a Better America

By the People: Designing a Better America

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

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

Design Is Storytelling

Design Is Storytelling

Beauty - Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial

Beauty - Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial

Fragile Beasts Coloring Book

Fragile Beasts Coloring Book

Board book cover with six colorful design objects

D is for Design

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

I Heart Design Activity Book

The Smithsonian's History of America in 101 Objects

The Smithsonian's History of America in 101 Objects

Scraps: Fashion, Textiles, and Creative Reuse

Scraps: Fashion, Textiles, and Creative Reuse

Top This and Other Parables of Design

Top This and Other Parables of Design

How Posters Work Book

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

Making Design Limited Edition

Making Design Limited Edition

Design is Not Art SC: Functional Objects from Donald Judd to Rachel Whiteread

Design is Not Art SC: Functional Objects from Donald Judd to Rachel Whiteread

Rococo: The Continuing Curve, 1730-2008 SC

Rococo: The Continuing Curve, 1730-2008 SC

Piranesi as Designer Paperback

Piranesi as Designer Paperback

Piranesi as Designer Hardcover

Piranesi as Designer Hardcover

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

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

Design Life Now, SC

Design Life Now, SC

Design Life Now, HC

Design Life Now, HC

Design for the Other 90%

Design for the Other 90%

Design For Life

Design For Life

New Design From Israel

New Design From Israel

New Hotels for Global Nomads

New Hotels for Global Nomads

Bright yellow book cover with diecut sans serif letters showing yellow fiber pattern and print below spelling out book title

Extreme Textiles: Designing for High Performance

Gray book cover with pattern of red fish of different sizes swimming in all directions with large title in three lines in the center

Inside Design Now: The National Design Triennial

Blue and beige patterned book cover featuring a close-up of a geometric metal teapot

Shock of the Old: Christopher Dresser's Design Revolution HC

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