Bill Moggridge Named Director of Cooper-Hewitt

Bill Moggridge accepts his lifetime achievement award at the Cooper-Hewitt’s National Design Awards gala, held last October in New York City. (Photos: UnBeige)

Fresh off his 2009 National Design Award win for lifetime achievement, IDEO co-founder Bill Moggridge has been named director of the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, the museum announced today. Moggridge will take office in March, replacing Caroline Baumann, who has served as interim director since Paul Warwick Thompson departed last July to helm Britain’s Royal College of Art.

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