Industrial Strength Design How Brooks Stevens Shaped Your World

Name: Industrial Strength Design How Brooks Stevens Shaped Your World
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ISBN: 9780262511865

ISBN-10: 026251186X

ISBN-13: 9780262511865

Edition: 2005

Authors: Glenn Adamson, David Gordon

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Industrial Strength Design: How Brooks Stevens Shaped Your World is a long overdue introduction to the work of visionary industrial designer Brooks Stevens (1911-1995). Believing that an industrial designer "should be a businessman, an engineer, and a stylist, in that order," Stevens created thousands of ingenious and beautiful designs for industrial and household products -- including a clothes dryer with a window in the front, a wide-mouthed peanut butter jar, and the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile. ("There's nothing more aerodynamic than a wiener," he explained.) He invented a precursor to the SUV by turning a Jeep into a station wagon after World War II, and streamlined steam irons so that…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 1/14/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 300
Size: 9.56" wide x 11.06" long x 0.74" tall
Weight: 2.662
Language: English

Glenn Adamson is curator at the Chipstone Foundation, Milwaukee.

David Gordon received his Ph.D. in history from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Critics of Marxism. His articles have appeared in Analysis, British Journal of Political Science, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Ethics, Journal of Value Inquiry, Mind, Political Studies, Politics, Social Philosophy & Policy, and other journals.



Preface



Acknowledgments



The Desire for the New: The Context of Brooks Stevens's Career



Brooks Stevens, the Man in Your Life: Shaping the Domestic Sphere, 1935-1950



Brooks Stevens: "Ego-Inspiring Styling" and the American Dream



Career and Designs




Less than Perfect: Early Influences and First Designs, 1911-1934



The Right Place at the Right Time: Becoming an Industrial Designer in the Midwest, 1935-1940



The Prophet of the Profit: Stevens in Wartime, 1941-1945



The Organization Man: Stevens's Best Years, 1946-1955



The Enfant Terrible of Industrial Design: Planned Obsolescence and Other Crimes Against Modernism, 1956-1978



The Sheer Who made Milwaukee Famous: Reluctant Retirement, 1978-1994





Brooks Stevens Staff, 1935-1980





Writings By Brooks Stevens





The Brooks Stevens Archives at the Milwaukee Art Museum


Bibliography


Index