BDDW Ping Pong Table

Designer Tyler Hays expands his Oddities collection with high-end, hardwood fun

Sponsored by The Macallan

Channeling the ethos of the legendary Dieter Rams, designer Jared Spool said, “Good design, when it’s done well, becomes invisible,” and though he is primarily concerned with the digital aspect as a UX engineer and expert, the maxim can certainly be expanded, in a sense, to the realm of furniture. It’s not that there’s anything “invisible” on the BDDW Ping Pong Table—to the contrary, the …

Robot Swarm at MoMath

A new interactive exhibition featuring friendly and colorful artificial intelligence

They might be kept under the glass floor of a boxing ring-like installation, but that doesn’t mean the robots within NYC’s National Museum of Mathematics (MoMath)’s new exhibition aren’t friendly. In fact, they seek out interactions with each other as well as the museum’s visitors, with clear intelligence and near-cheer. Two dozen robots live under the exhibit floor, glowing a variety of colors—with each color …

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 …