The 25th edition of theCooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum's annual National Design Awards program has named ten winners, each representing the "empowering, inclusive and diverse" nature of design practices in their respective fields. The program was established in 2000 as part of the White House Millennium Council and honors the best of the best American designers making impacts in the public sphere in multiple disciplines and across ten separate awards categories.Maurice Cox, who served as the Chair for this year's jury, stated he was "proud that the winners are increasingly a reflection of who we are in America and who we hope to be."Design touches all aspects of our lives every single dayfrom the buildings we live, learn and work in, to the physical and digital systems that deliver our basic services, the clothes we wear, the spaces we gather in or the creativity and beauty that help us understand ourselves as a nationand yet designs undeniable influence can go unsee...