"Without graphic design, you would not be able to find the restroom," says Prem Krishnamurthy, a partner in the firm Project Projects. He should know. Project Projects, along with the architects Dominic and Chris Leong, designed the exhibition "Graphic Design: Now in Production," which opens on Saturday in Building 110 on Governors Island. Located right off of the ferry landing, it's the only building on the island with a public restroom. Way-finding is not one of the topics on the agenda of this dynamic, colorful and interactive exhibition, which originated at the Walker Art Center and is in New York as part of the Cooper-Hewitt's off-site program. The museum's permanent home, in the former Andrew Carnegie residence, is undergoing a major renovation and is slated to reopen in 2014. But visitors will find plenty of examples of some of the most innovative books, posters, television titles, logos and related objects (including designs for this magazine's "T" logo by the furniture company Blu Dot and the artist Stephanie DeArmond) created since 2000. According to Ellen Lupton, the senior curator of contemporary design at the Cooper-Hewitt, the focus is not just on the designer as author - a creator of both style and content - but the designer as a producer who comes up with the message, the medium, the software and even the means of distribution. "Production is rooted in the material world," she writes in the introduction to the show's catalog. It values things over ideas, making over imagining, practice over theory. Visitors too have the opportunity to add their two cents to the conversation - and pass the time while waiting for the restrooms - by voting on the redesigns of logos for companies like Pfizer and Popeye's or organizations like the YMCA and the New York Public Library. Of all the topics addressed here, logo design, Upton points out, tends to the most controversial. "When a logo changes it's a public event," she says. People don't seem to care about a logo - until you change it. "Graphic Design: Now in Production" is on view at Building 110 on Governors Island May 26 through September 3. Go to Cooperhewitt.org. For directions and ferry schedule, go to govisland.com/html/visit/directions.shtml