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Eliot Noyes
Gordon Bruce
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Description for Eliot Noyes
Hardcover. The first publication about Eliot Noyes, an important figure in 20th-century design in America. Num Pages: 240 pages, 350 col, 200 b&w photo. BIC Classification: AKB; AMB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 295 x 260 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1806.
This is the first publication about Eliot Noyes (1910–77), an important figure in twentieth-century design in America. His influential and successful career stretched from his position as the first Director of Industrial Design at MoMA in the 1940s to Consulting Director of Design for key businesses such as IBM, Mobil Oil and Westinghouse. This book traces Noyes’ life and pioneering career, emphasizing his work for the corporate industries, to which he introduced key designers, artists and architects such as Paul Rand, Alexander Calder and Marcel Breuer, as well as his architectural projects and lectures. The focus is on the ideas he eschewed ... Read more
This is the first publication about Eliot Noyes (1910–77), an important figure in twentieth-century design in America. His influential and successful career stretched from his position as the first Director of Industrial Design at MoMA in the 1940s to Consulting Director of Design for key businesses such as IBM, Mobil Oil and Westinghouse. This book traces Noyes’ life and pioneering career, emphasizing his work for the corporate industries, to which he introduced key designers, artists and architects such as Paul Rand, Alexander Calder and Marcel Breuer, as well as his architectural projects and lectures. The focus is on the ideas he eschewed ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Phaidon Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780714843506
SKU
V9780714843506
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About Gordon Bruce
Gordon Bruce is an industrial designer who worked for Eliot Noyes from the late sixties until Noyes’ death in 1977. He lectures internationally on design and is a regular guest judge and critic for schools and competitions. He has served as advisor to the International Industrial Design Conference of Aspen and was Chairman of the Product Design Division of the ... Read more
Reviews for Eliot Noyes
"Bruce, who worked with Noyes for around 10 years up to his death, knows his stuff. The text is conversational yet authoritative and the personal insights prove he was there. Discreetly designed with over 500 illustrations, it has a gorgeous back cover with an intriguing spider graph of Noyes' influence... Gropius said of Noyes that he was 'the only architect ... Read more