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

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

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

A Fool's Errand

A Fool's Errand

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

The Senses: Design Beyond Vision

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

Enwheeled: History, Design, and the Wheelchair

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 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 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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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 photograph of a rectilinear wooden furniture piece in a grayish blue room. Title above in white sans serif font

Design Is Not Art, Hardcover

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

Skin: Surface, Substance, and Design

A Guide to Smithsonian Architecture

A Guide to Smithsonian Architecture

Gray book cover with black engraving showing a fantastical beast among curvilinear leaves twigs and fruit. A delicate 'R' in pink calligraphy is layered on top and the title in red is above

Rococo: The Continuing Curve, 1730-2008

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

White book cover with title in small brown font over a white radio with a perforated metal face

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

Book cover with large timelapsed photography of figures in a chic hotel room with an image of figures on the ceiling. Title in red on center right of cover backlit by hotel room window

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

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