About
Individual design objects provide a great deal of creative insight and societal commentary on their own, but being able to view larger trends in color, form, and place encourage critical thinking about materials, production, and demand.
The objects presented in this project aim to encourage trend analysis and pattern analysis in areas such as color over time, form by frequency, and origin clusters. Please feel free to explore collection subsets and individual objects alike, with the help of the Cooper Hewitt online digital collection.
Questions, concerns and feedback can be submitted here.
Sources
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collections provides a REST-ish style application programming interface (API) for developers to use in their products and services. Please consult the API documentation for details.
This project was created at The New School in collaboration with the Smithsonian Data team. Special thanks to Daniel Sauer and Richard The of The New School, Ryan King, Effie Kapsalis and Rebecca Snyder of the Smithsonian Institute, and Jia Zhang of Columbia University for all their feedback and insight.