COOPER-HEWITT NATIONAL DESIGN MUSEUM ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF 2011 NATIONAL DESIGN AWARDS
The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum has announced the winners and finalists of its twelfth annual National Design Awards. “As the nation’s design museum, Cooper-Hewitt raises awareness that design is everywhere,” said Cooper-Hewitt director Bill Moggridge. “The work of this year’s National Design Awards winners represents extraordinary solutions to the design problems central to the landscape of daily life, from how we dress, shape our personal and private spaces, frame communication and interact with the world at large.” Awardees are as follows:
Lifetime Achievement: Matthew Carter
Design Mind: Steven Heller
Corporate and Institutional Achievement: Knoll
Architecture Design: Architecture Research Office
Communication Design: Rick Valicenti
Fashion Design: J. Mendel
Interaction Design: Ben Fry
Interior Design: Shelton, Mindel & Associates
Landscape Architecture: Gustafson Guthrie Nichol
Product Design: Continuum
