Since Richard M. Daley became mayor of Chicago in 1989, the city has planted 400,000 trees and begun an effort to attract renewable energy companies and create a sustainable landscaping industry. He built the first municipal rooftop garden on City Hall and one of only five U.S. buildings to receive the Platinum rating from Leadership [...]
The Shop at Cooper-Hewitt is pleased to offer two limited-edition prints by celebrated design legend Eva Zeisel, the recipient of the 2005 National Design Award for Lifetime Achievement, given in recognition of an individual who has made a profound, long-term contribution to contemporary design practice.
In 2005, for the first time in her career, Zeisel added [...]
At the Mondial Automobile 2004 in Paris, Mercedes-Benz unveiled four new vehicles to experts, the press and the general public. The presentation aimed to highlight the vision cars, without upstaging the production launches. Film, lighting and audio interacted to create a succession of new moods that underscored the personalities of the individual products, ensuring that [...]
Head First! is a dynamic three-story fabric model of a human head that serves the dual role of visual icon and AV theater in the HealthSpace Cleveland health museum. Families and school groups start their visits to HealthSpace with a visit to Head First! to view a short AV multimedia presentation about making healthy choices [...]
This project, located in the heart of Kansas City, represents one of the pioneer projects behind the revitalization of downtown.
Favorably promoting the Central Library and representing Kansas City were the main purposes in this project. The people of Kansas City were asked to help pick highly influential books that represent Kansas City. Those titles [...]
This custom-designed self-service check-in kiosk for JetBlue’s passengers further sets this airline apart from competitors and the off-the-shelf kiosks they typically use. Both the look and feel of the kiosk communicate JetBlue’s brand values, which are not about superficial frills but about providing customers with excellent quality achieved through design. The friendly, somewhat anthropomorphic expression [...]
The design for DaimlerChrysler’s exhibit at the Mondial de l’Automobile 2004 in Paris focused on demonstrating the company’s commitment to the development of emission-free mobility. Under the motto “Energy for the Future,“ visitors saw how biomass is converted into fuel in a stylized laboratory.
The hands-on demonstration took guests step-by-step through the process of converting [...]
This extremely rare Jeroboam features the first artist-labeled Mouton Rothschild by Baron Philippe de Rothschild. Jeroboam (5 lovely liters) Chateau Mouton-Rothschild 1945–considered one of the great vintages of the 20th century–sold at Christie’s London in 1997 for $114,614. One of the great vintages of the 20th century was 1945, and although the buyer remains anonymous, [...]
ImageNet’s new facility is a high impact, visually exciting space for selling, servicing and warehousing copy machines that also strives to change customer perceptions about copy machines. The design solution has also changed people’s preconceptions about warehouse space and remote office locations and transforms the limitations into assets. The customer is brought into an environment [...]
When an enterprising young man named James Christie opened his sales rooms in London in December 1766, his first auction consisted of the estate of a “deceased nobleman” containing “a large Quantity of Madeira and high Flavour’d Claret.” The records don’t relate how much these delightfully described “high Flavour’d clarets” fetched but as the whole [...]
