Using an explorative interface to showcase and give access to a large collection of work that can’t always be on display physically.

These designs were presented with a largely text based proposal for the redesign of New York’s Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum. The concepts identified ways in which the collection could be organised, and considers the goal of a more educational approach. Timeline variations explore ways to map dates, movements, artists and work.

Cooper-Hewitt

Is a design museum located in New York and one of nineteen museums that falls under the wing of the Smithsonian Institution. Its collections and exhibitions explore approximately 240 years of design aesthetic and creativity and has one of the world’s largest collections of decorative arts.