DESIGN LIFE NOW
National Design Triennial

Design touches every part of our daily life and this ongoing exhibition at the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum focuses on those innovative ideas such as Nike's Free running shoe, the Apple iPod and prefabricated housing. Inaugurated in 2000, the Triennial seeks out creative American designs from a three-year span in fields ranging from product design, architecture, furniture, film, graphics, new technologies, animation, science, medicine and fashion. The works of 87 designers and firms—including Apple, Pixar, Herman Miller, Google, Nike and NASA—will be on view. The program ties the works together by focusing on four principal ideas that characterized elements of the design world from 2003 to 2006: emulating life (through form or movement); community (responding to the growth and dissemination of the Internet); hand-crafted and do-it-yourself design (renewed appreciation for craft and personalization); and transformation (through form and materials).

When: Through July 29, 2007; Monday – Thursday, 10 a.m. – 5p.m.; Fridays, 10 a.m. – 9 p.m.; Saturdays, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; Sundays, noon – 6 p.m. Closed Christmas Day and New Year’s Day.

Where: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, 2 E. 91st St., New York.

Admission: General admission, $12; senior citizens and students 12 and older, $7; Cooper-Hewitt members and children younger than 12 admitted free.

Information: 212-849-8400 or visit www.cooperhewitt.org.

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