Maira Kalman Selects at the Cooper Hewitt

After a three-year closure, the design museum celebrates its reopening with a poetic exhibit of the writer and illustrator's favorite things

After a $91 million, three-year renovation, the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum is finally reopening its doors to the public today, 12 December 2014. Inside the former Fifth Avenue mansion of Andrew Carnegie, where the museum is housed, expect to encounter 10 new exhibitions that not only show off the range of the Cooper Hewitt’s collection but its new expanded spaces and technology upgrades. CH …

My Favorite Things

Much-loved NYC author and illustrator Maira Kalman curated an exhibit for the long-awaited reopening of the Cooper Hewitt design museum, where she highlights some of her favorite things from the Smithsonian Institution’s collection—from Abraham Lincoln’s pocket watch to a 1934 zig-zag chair designed by Gerrit Rietveld. Complementing that is a beautifully handwritten and illustrated book “My Favorite Things.” Kalman’s humorous words and personal memories place …

Unstuck Tip Cards

The highly successful decision-making app becomes a deck of cards to help you shuffle through life's inevitable dilemmas

In 2011, Cool Hunting covered the launch of Unstuck, a groundbreaking iPad app that strategically leads users through times of creative blockage and decision-making struggles. Using a simple step-by-step diagnostic survey, Unstuck figures out exactly what the dilemma is at hand and then creates a tip list to direct focus toward an attainable solution. The app has been wildly successful, attracting over a million users …