The following text is from Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects

The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum will celebrate outstanding achievement in design this fall with its ninth annual National Design Awards program. On May 8th, Cooper-Hewitt director Paul Warwick Thompson announced the winners and finalists of the 2008 National Design Awards, which recognize excellence across a variety of disciplines. The Award recipients will be honored at a gala dinner Oct. 23 at Cooper-Hewitt.

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“The work of this year’s honorees has made a broad and powerful impact on our society,” said Thompson. “The innovations of visionaries like Google, this year’s Corporate Achievement winner, and Lifetime Achievement recipient Charles Harrison, are a testament to design’s ability to connect with a wide audience and affect all areas of daily life, from the way we work, use technology and interact with our environment.”

The 2008 National Design Awards nominations were solicited from a committee of more than 1,500 designers, educators, journalists, cultural figures and corporate leaders from every state in the nation. This year’s jury—a diverse group of leading design experts convened by Cooper-Hewitt—reviewed the nominations and selected a Lifetime Achievement recipient and winners and finalists in the Corporate Achievement, Design Mind, Architecture, Communications, Fashion, Interior, Landscape and Product Design categories. This represents the first time the jury selected finalists in the Corporate Achievement and Design Mind categories due to the exceptional strength of this year’s nominees.