First Look at Cooper-Hewitt's Icy New National Design Award Trophy

The Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum has tweaked the asterisk-themed National Design Award trophy designed in 2000 William Drenttel and Jessica Helfand—and by tweaked, we mean untwisted it and turned it to glass. At a gala on Thursday evening in New York, 2011 National Design Award winners including Steven Heller, Rick Valicenti, and Gilles Mendel will be presented with icy-looking asterisks created by the Corning Museum of Glass in collaboration with the Cooper-Hewitt. The two institutions first worked together a few years ago as part of the Corning Museum’s GlassLab initiative, which aims to explore new design concepts and push the boundaries of innovation and creativity.

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