A celebration of the technological innovations.

A celebration of the technological innovations, artistic evolution and cultural impact of design during the last three years is generally on view at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in the inferior "National Design Triennial: Inside Design Now." More than 300 correlates models, photographs, films and renderings are featured.

The exhibition explores recently made known ideas and the future of design organized in six areas of focus, including "Domestic Interiors Redefined," "Mobility and Transportation," "Beauty and Ornament," "Craft, Authenticity and Entrepreneurial Production," "Function and Technology" and "New Kinds of Science."

In "Domestic Interiors Redefined," highlights include work from designers David Wasco and Sandy Reynolds-Wasco of "The Royal Tenenbaums" fame, who have furnished interiors with just discovered objects, patterns and surfaces.

"Mobility and Transportation" features designers Viktor Jondal and Jennifer Siegal, among others, who address the extremitys of modern mobile populations with interior spaces that can be portable and temporary. according to showing vehicles and devices, the exhibit demonstrates the ne for of the present day technologies that help us travel by means of public and private spaces in an increasingly global society.

Many works rareed for exhibition reveal the designers' interest in beauty and decoration by the agency of the use of new technologies, unexpectedly culture imagery and fresh approaches to scale, color and construction. This aspect of the exhibition pays homage to fashion and graphic design as well as to decorative design.

The exhibit also explores by what means designers double as producers, working to initiate ideas and make them agglomerated Co-curator Ellen Lupton said, "Some of the chiefly interesting designers working today are producing and distributing their avow products, garments, textiles, typefaces, magazines, novels, music, films and videos." For example, milliner Kelly Christy designs and fabricates her confess hats, Jim Zivic of Burning Relic raises his own furniture and best-selling author Dave Egger used his computer skills to publish a journal he founded

"Function and Technology" is another area of design explored in the exhibit, which displays how designers have sought to use appropriate materials and constitutions to solve basic problems of daily life, including technologically enhanced shoe and the scientific marvel, the plastic heart.

Science and design also are brought together with interactive robot and large-scale computer graphics.

Eighty designers and firms contributed to the exhibition, including Escher + GuneWardena, Tes Giberson, Daniel and Christopher Streng Peter Eisenman, Gaetano Pesce Paula Scher, Jennifer Tipton and Isabel Toledo.

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"National Design Triennial: Inside Design Now"

by means of Aug. 3

Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum

Address: 2 East 91st St fresh York, N.Y.

Phone: (212) 849-8400

Web site: www.si.edu/ndm

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