<img width="640" height="960" src="https://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/DesignAwards_Ceremony2010_HR_038-1-933x1400.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="In profile, Ralph Caplan, a white man with white hair in advanced age wearing a suit, at a podium. Behind him is a red wall." style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" srcset="https://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/DesignAwards_Ceremony2010_HR_038-1-933x1400.jpg 933w, https://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/DesignAwards_Ceremony2010_HR_038-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/DesignAwards_Ceremony2010_HR_038-1-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/DesignAwards_Ceremony2010_HR_038-1-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/DesignAwards_Ceremony2010_HR_038-1-157x235.jpg 157w, https://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/DesignAwards_Ceremony2010_HR_038-1-scaled.jpg 1707w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" data-attachment-id="38170" data-permalink="https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2020/06/11/remembering-ralph-caplan/designawards_ceremony2010_hr_038-1/" data-orig-file="https://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/DesignAwards_Ceremony2010_HR_038-1-scaled.jpg" data-orig-size="1707,2560" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"2.8","credit":"Richard Patterson","camera":"Canon EOS 7D","caption":"Cooper Hewitt National Design Week 2010. .Design Awards at Cipriani's in NYC on October 13, 2010..All Photos RICHARD PATTERSON\u00a9.Photo Credit RICHARD PATTERSON.","created_timestamp":"1287087956","copyright":"www.richardpattersonphoto.com.Richard Patterson\u00a9","focal_length":"125","iso":"1000","shutter_speed":"0.01","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="DesignAwards_Ceremony2010_HR_038 (1)" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/DesignAwards_Ceremony2010_HR_038-1-200x300.jpg" data-large-file="https://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/DesignAwards_Ceremony2010_HR_038-1-933x1400.jpg" />Author: Ellen Lupton Ralph Caplan (1925–2020) was a writer and thinker. His 1982 book By Design: Why There Are No Locks on the Bathroom Doors in the Hotel Louis XIV, and Other Object Lessons appeared at a time when few people were addressing the everyday impact of design. His 2005 book Cracking the Whip is...
