Results for "Association of Smithsonian Designers"
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Deborah M. Bretzfelder
- Date: March 9, 2022
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.
Design + Archives: Star Search
- Date: January 26, 2017
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Searching through the Smithsonian Institution Archives collections to find our who designed the star logo for the National Collection of Fine Arts.
Design in Archives: 150 going on 175
- Date: August 29, 2019
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: 2022 will mark the Smithsonian's 175th Anniversary. In honor of that, we're taking a look at what some of the design work went into making the Smithsonian's 150th Anniversary celebration happen.
Science Service, Up Close: Making Do
- Date: June 4, 2015
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Science Service: Up Close - Looking at the "defense fashions" for female workers during World War II.
In Memoriam: Hans Hollein, Architect
- Date: April 29, 2014
- Description: Remembering Hans Hollein, designer of the first exhibition at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, "MANtransFORMS."
Crimilda Pontes: The Original Designer of the Smithsonian Sunburst
- Date: March 24, 2020
- Description: A celebration of the woman who originally designed the iconic Smithsonian sunburst.
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Archives Puzzles: Free Fallin’
- Date: September 20, 2021
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Have a little fun with images from our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse millions of images as part of Smithsonian Open Access.
Link Love: 12/19/2014
- Date: December 19, 2014
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: On New Years Day 2015, the 44,000 works of art in the Smithsonian’s Freer | Sackler collection will be available online. [via WAMU] Dumpster diving! The National Museum of American History added a copy of the E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Atari 2600 game found in a landfill to their collection. [via O Say Can You See, National Museum of American History]The grand re-opening of
Science Service, Up Close: A Meeting Of Minds
- Date: April 7, 2016
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: A rare meeting of the scientific minds at the 92nd Annual British Association Conference in 1924, captured by Science Service journalist Watson Davis.
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The Enid A. Haupt Garden
- Date: January 20, 2015
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: A look at the Enid A. Haupt Garden as it was established in 1987.
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Magical Mystery Tour
- Date: December 29, 2010
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: Recently, I read some interesting news about the National Public Radio blog, “The Picture Show,” that explores photographic images and issues.
Quidditch in Henry Park?
- Date: April 3, 2014
- Description: This coming weekend muggles from around the world will be participating in the International Quidditch Association’s World Cup; but did you know that this growing sport may have a Smithsonian connection?