National Design Triennial
Show of hands: how often do you think about design? If you're like most people (i.e., us), probably not too often. Generally, design just is --- until it fails and your ear buds are killing you and the ketchup won't come out of the bottle. But the folks at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum think about design a lot, and every three years they recognize people who think about design nonstop, to the tremendous benefit of humankind.
The 2010 Triennial, on view through January, includes such fascinating, functional objects as clothes made from recycled fabrics in Depression-era patterns by local artisans in Alabama; low-cost spectacles that allow their wearer to manually adjust the prescription, creating one-pair-helps-all eyewear; and the pages of GOOD Magazine, which uses clean layouts and graphics to highlight important social initiatives and issues. Divded into categories like "health" and "mobility," the works on view will have you rethinking the world around you.
The 2010 Triennial, on view through January, includes such fascinating, functional objects as clothes made from recycled fabrics in Depression-era patterns by local artisans in Alabama; low-cost spectacles that allow their wearer to manually adjust the prescription, creating one-pair-helps-all eyewear; and the pages of GOOD Magazine, which uses clean layouts and graphics to highlight important social initiatives and issues. Divded into categories like "health" and "mobility," the works on view will have you rethinking the world around you.
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