Past Exhibitions

Explore a selection of designs and publications related to past exhibitions at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

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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 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

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 with photograph of three family members one on a bicycle one on three-wheeled peddled vehicle towing their child on a busy street scene. Title in white letters in yellow and green fields

Going Green: Experiencing the Ecomobile Lifestyle

Book cover with blue and pink fields above and below a black and white photograph of a seated figure wearing a vest and hat with an illustrated cartoonish paper mask. Title in alternating orange and yellow serif letters at top

Saul Steinberg: A Biography

Black book cover with the title stacked in the upper right corner with letters in different colors and a red band at the bottom

Made by Rain Book; black cover with a few small splashes of white and smaller off-white booklet layered over, with the title in blue [traveling concept #1 booklet]

Made by Rain Book

Light blue textured book cover with photograph of a pink and blue design object. Title above in black sans serif letters

The Good Life: Perceptions of the Ordinary

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 yellow red blue and black rectangular fields bordered by thick black lines with silver metallic sticker near top right with title information

Egyptomania: A History of Fascination, Obsession and Fantasy

Egyptomania: A History of Fascination, Obsession and Fantasy

Blue book cover with diagonal white lines around white title information and a black and white photograph of a modern chair design

Paul T. Frankl Autobiography

Book with a tan cover, and five untensils, the text and objects are all dark brown.

The Hard Life: Jasper Morrison

Spread of five media pieces, a pink spiral bound book titled "government in plain sight" a white and red illustrated book called "what the cell?" a DVD with the same title, a yellow book with an illustration titled "Field Guide to Federalism" and a white book with red white and blue illustrations titled "The Deciders"

CUP Classics Box Set for Educators

A series of colorful foldout posters on Public Policy.

Making Policy Public Posters Box Set

Purple book cover with architectural schematics in the bottom right and lower left corners. Title printed in white sans serif letters rotated ninety degrees to the right and repeated in upper left and bottom right corners

Parallel Cities: The Multilevel Metropolis

White book cover with architectural rendering and the title in a black rectilinear font

Alejandro Aravena: Elemental

Book cover with black and white photograph of two figures one with their arm around the other and a gilded numeral 'one' with scalloped bulbous edges

The Haas Brothers

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

Cream colored book cover with a long neck adjustable gray lamp below the title with letters in alternating colors

The Pixar Touch

Super Normal: Sensations of the Ordinary

Super Normal: Sensations of the Ordinary

Monochrome rec bandana decorated with patterns of paisley.

Square silk scarf features blue and black vibrant patterns of sound over a white background.

SHOP Exclusive Cymatic Scarf

Made By Rain Scarf Small in Dark Blue, looped at the top with the ends hanging down. The material is silky, and splattered with raindrops.

Made by Rain Scarf Small

An image of two white Fend bike helmuts. One is shown in its collapsable position while the other is shown open.

Fend One Bike Helmet

On Color Scarf; a knotted Rainbow silk scarf with the appearance of spilling colors on a white background.

Royal blue kids t-shirt with graphic image of a Trash Bot in black and white

Trash Bot Kids T-Shirt

Made By Rain Scarf Large in Cobalt, looped at the top with the ends fanning out. The material is silky, and splattered with raindrops.

Made by Rain Scarf Large

Gray and white reversible scarf with horizontal bands of contrasting zig zag stripes divided by single rows of parallel stitching, displayed in a loop with splayed ends.

Gray Kibiso Zig Zag Scarf

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