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IDEO Selects: Works from the Permanent Collection

June 22, 2007 - January 13, 2008 (new closing date)

Museum: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum

Location: The Nancy and Edwin Marks Gallery

IDEO, a leading innovation and design firm for more than 20 years, uses works from the museum's permanent collection to explore the theme of "design thinking" -- an approach used to solve design problems over the past five centuries based on three categories: influence, intuition, and empathy. Each of the 30 works selected, ranging from the 16th century to the present, share a story about the ways in which the designer solved an everyday problem. Included are a suite of flashlights in various colors and sizes, a 1969 Valentine typewriter, a 20th-century cane with a pull-out map, a 19th-century textile panel with instructions for creating hand shadow puppets, and a child's chair designed by Charles and Ray Eames (ca. 1944). Brochure