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Design Fictions

This is a Design Fictions. Its medium is digital print. It is a part of the Exhibitions department.

Since the dominance of streets by cars at the beginning of the 20th century, American designers have persistently envisioned a future of better-designed cities navigated by futuristic vehicles. These objects from the collections of Cooper Hewitt and Smithsonian Libraries present several examples of futuristic visions that reimagine how people move and live.

It is credited New York World’s Fair, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library.

  • Book, Futurama
  • offset lithograph on paper.
  • Smithsonian Libraries, T785 K1G32 1939.
  • 113.2018.2

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This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Road Ahead: Reimagining Mobility.

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