New York City: Design on display

Memorable moment: At best, a design exhibition combines theory, aesthetics and products in a way that makes you pay more attention to the objects you encounter in everyday life. So it is with the stellar Design Life Now: National Design Triennial 2006 currently at New York’s Cooper-Hewitt Museum.
Amid three floors of furniture, fashion, graphic art, industrial and interior design are several displays that will be familiar to American consumers — from Apple’s iconic iPod advertising campaign, to Target’s easy-to-read prescription labels, to the

Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner. There are also whiz-bang products, like the transparent collapsible sea kayak, as well as progressive uses of technology, such as a virtual reality device for patients dealing with terminal pain and remote control "toy" dogs that can troll landfills for contaminants.
And then there’s a display sure to please all air travelers: Boeing’s new 787 Dreamliner, lauded by the exhibition for the [...]

Original post by benabramson For All Your Travel Needs Best Travel Rates Online