Results for "Design USA: Contemporary Innovation (Online exhibition)"
Design + Archives = Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date: August 5, 2014
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: A look back at the history of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
Design + Archives: Posters
- Date: February 11, 2020
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Posters at the Smithsonian display a wide range of exhibitions and programs, each with a design that is visually intriguing and purposeful in conveying information.
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Online Soul
- Date: June 7, 2010
- Description: One of the goals of THE BIGGER PICTURE blog is to highlight stories about the ways images delivered in an online environment can describe extraordinary events or comment equally powerfully on our everyday life. Our contributors talk about collections at the Smithsonian, about images or archives that are making headlines, or about people that make, care for, and think about
Design + Archives: Posters
- Date: October 6, 2016
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: A selection of posters from programs and exhibitions at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (formerly National Collection of Fine Arts and National Museum of American Art) and Renwick Gallery.
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.
A Look into NCFA Exhibition Posters
- Date: October 24, 2017
- Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
- Description: The Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) has undergone many name changes over the years. One of these – the National Collection of Fine Arts (NCFA) – was in use from 1937 to 1980. During this time, the NCFA underwent several exciting changes. After years of being housed in multiple locations and several failed attempts to build a permanent building, the collection moved to
Designed for Change: The Experimental Gallery, 1991-1994
- Date: July 5, 2018
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: For a period of time in the early 1990s, the Smithsonian Institution's Arts and Industries Building played host to an experimental exhibition gallery space.
Link Love: 12/8/2017
- Date: December 8, 2017
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: The man who created the Smithsonian's contemporary visual identity system, Ivan Chermayeff, died this week. Here's more on the history of the Smithsonian's identity. [via Smithsonian Magazine]If you're a high school student interested in design, you have until February 12 to enter the Cooper Hewitt's competition for design solutions to make the everyday more accessible! Also
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Ellen Lupton
- Date: August 12, 2020
- 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.
An Audio Anniversary: Groundbreaking at the Hirshhorn
- Date: January 12, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
Walt Disney's Progressland
- Date: July 21, 2016
- Creator: Hillary Brady
- Description: The Walt Disney designed--and General Electric sponsored--look at America’s figurative and literal electric future, Progressland, wowed visitors at the 1964 World’s Fair--and elements of it exist today in both Disneyland and Disney World theme parks.
Hot Topics: From Extinct Monsters to Carousels
- Date: January 8, 2013
- Creator: Mary Markey
- Description: A quarterly overview of research at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.