Pixar’s collaborative design process will be the subject of a museum show this fall at New York City’s Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. The exhibit will explore how Pixar’s visual design process works in tandem with its story development process, and how design is at the core of everything they create.
“Pixar: The Design of Story” will be on view at the Cooper Hewitt from October 8, 2015 through August 7, 2016. Using concept artwork from throughout the Pixar filmography, the exhibit breaks down Pixar’s design process into three stages — research, iteration, and collaboration — and organizes the results into three key design principles: story, believability and appeal.