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

Porcelain plate featuring a modern grid textile-inspired graphic, with a matte underside and a glossy surface.

Pattern Porcelain Plate by Scholten & Baijings

Porcelain mug featuring a modern grid textile-inspired graphic, matte exterior.

Pattern Porcelain Mug by Scholten & Baijings

Porcelain cup featuring a modern grid textile-inspired graphic, with a matte exterior and a glossy interior.

Pattern Porcelain Cup by Scholten & Baijings

Cereal bowl that features a modern grid textile-inspired graphic, with a matte exterior and a glossy interior.

Pattern Porcelain Bowl by Scholten & Baijings

White coffee mug with a yellow-orange printed zig zag pattern.

Spinne Pattern Plate Set

Spinne Pattern Plate Set

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

CMYK Alpha Water Tumbler Set

Large rectangular tray with an optical black and white print.

Amsel Pattern Large Tray

Rectangular, natural cardboard package with white label for the All Purpose Spaghetti Scrub, window-cut out reveals scrubber made up of many strips of coral-colored, textured material.

All-Purpose Spaghetti Scrub, 2 pcs

Mouth-blown glass, flat candy dish with a teardrop shaped handle, short stem and round base.

Candy Dish, Flat

Small orb shaped, mouth-blown glass candy dish with tear drop shaped handle, short slender stem, and round base.

Candy Dish III, Small

Side view of silver toy subway car attached to a piece of track. An American flag is printed on the side of car.

MTA Subway Car Toy

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

Designing with Pixar

Braun Men's Analog Chronograph Watch, White Face with Black Band

Braun Men's Analog Chronograph Watch, White Face with Black Band

A poster features an image of a model of the galaxy. On a black background, clusters of stars are visible throughout

Visualizing the Cosmic Web: Nearest Neighbors Model Print

A poster features an image of a model of the galaxy. On a black background, clusters of stars are visible throughout

Visualizing the Cosmic Web: Varying Length Model Print

A poster features an image of a model of the galaxy. On a black background, clusters of stars are visible throughout

Visualizing the Cosmic Web: Fixed Length Model Poster

Visualizing the Cosmic Web: Fixed Length Model Print

Visualizing the Cosmic Web: Fixed Length Model Print

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

By the People Exhibition Poster

Scraps Exhibition Poster

Walden, a Game Box Set

A rectangular postcard with a white border features a horizontal rectangle filled with an image of pale, undulating folds imprinted with an overall pattern of small purple dots.

Postcard Coelicolor

Printed in brown ink against a white background, the front of a card is covered in a repeating bird pattern that bleeds off the edges.

Sparrows Greeting Card

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 has a drawing of three flying fish with stylized waves bleeding off the background.

Flying Fish Greeting Card

Printed in brown ink against a white background, the front of a card is covered in a repeating bird pattern that bleeds off the edges.

Cranes 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

Printed in brown ink against a white background, the front of a card is covered in a lattice pattern. Layered over the lattice and bleeding off the edges, are two branches sprouting crysanthemum blossoms.

Blossoms on a Lattice Greeting Card

An aluminum chair with skeletal frame and solid aluminum seat and back rest.

Postcard Laarman Bone Chair

A phallic shaped gold ceramic vase. The bottom of the vase is covered in a pink fungi like texture.

Postcard Haas Accretion Vase

Wrapping paper book cover with densely packed illustrations of musical instruments in tan coral dark green and yellow. Title information in white horizontal band across the middle

Musical Instruments Gift and Creative Paper Book

Small book cover with title in gold foil in a mint field over a charming green and brown illustration of a cabin in a sea of trees

Book cover with orange and rad paisley pattern overlaid with title cut out of a transparent white field

Paisley: A Visual Survey of Pattern and Color Variations

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

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