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June 16, 2003
The National Design Triennial is
The National Design Triennial is going on over at the Cooper-Hewitt, so we mounted a cultural expedition to head over and check it out.
Unlike most "what's happening now" exhibits, you've actually heard of some of the people in this one: Dave Eggers (for McSweeney's book design), Royal Tenenbaums' interior design, Antenna Design (who did the new metrocard machines and a subway car), the Kismet robot lady we wrote about last week (the robot flowers didn't work well at all), Isaac Mizrahi, Abiomed's new artificial heart, Target stores, and the guy who wrote that book that changed science last year.
Overall, the designs they chose were compelling and interesting, although the exhibit was not as interactive as it should have been. The few "please touch" exhibits were glitchy or completely broken, and some stuff that you should have been allowed to touch (furniture, a music-making toy, etc) was off limits.
Here's the exhibition's official site.
Oh, yeah: you know who was missing? Segway.
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