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Making design : Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum collection

Title
Making design : Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum collection / book designed by Irma Boom ; essay contributors, Elizabeth Broman [and fifteen others].
Publication
  • New York, NY : Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum ; 2014.
  • New York, NY : Distributed worldwide by Artbook/ D.A.P.
  • ©2014

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Additional Authors
  • Boom, Irma
  • Broman, Elizabeth
  • Cooper-Hewitt Museum, sponsoring body, issuing body.
  • J.M. Kaplan Fund, sponsoring body.
Description
903 pages : color illustrations; 21 cm
Summary
"'Making Design' marks the transformative renovation of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum and signifies an entirely new way to experience a museum and its collection. Cooper Hewitt possesses an extraordinarily diverse collection--totaling more than 210,000 objects--and is the only museum in the United States devoted exclusively to historic and contemporary works from around the world, spanning thirty centuries. Designed by Irma Boom, and an object in itself, visible in the dark and in the light, the book expresses the museum's primary goal--to inspire people to see how design impacts their lives. The 1145 collection objects and fifty-four essays, drawn from new scholarship, weave parallel narratives throughout the book. Boom's visual sequences encourage looking at objects as well as making connections. This playful and unexpected jaunt through the collection embraces the user-centered experiences found on the dynamic website and in the galleries of the new Cooper Hewitt."--Back cover.
Alternative Title
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum collection
Subjects
Note
  • This publication is made possible in part by Furthermore: a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Call Number
JQD 15-58
ISBN
  • 0910503745
  • 9780910503747
LCCN
2014947908
OCLC
904786685
Title
Making design : Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum collection / book designed by Irma Boom ; essay contributors, Elizabeth Broman [and fifteen others].
Publisher
New York, NY : Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum ; 2014.
Distributor
New York, NY : Distributed worldwide by Artbook/ D.A.P.
Copyright Date
©2014
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Added Author
Boom, Irma, book designer.
Broman, Elizabeth, writer of additional text.
Cooper-Hewitt Museum, sponsoring body, issuing body.
J.M. Kaplan Fund, sponsoring body.
Research Call Number
JQD 15-58
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