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Industrial Strength Design: How Brooks Stevens Shaped Your World
Glenn Adamson
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Description for Industrial Strength Design: How Brooks Stevens Shaped Your World
Paperback. The first publication documenting the work of Brooks Stevens, one of America's most influential twentieth century designers. Num Pages: 300 pages, 49 color illus., 218 b&w illus. BIC Classification: AGB; AKP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 280 x 241 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1225.
The first publication documenting the work of Brooks Stevens, one of America's most influential twentieth-century designers. 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 ... Read more
The first publication documenting the work of Brooks Stevens, one of America's most influential twentieth-century designers. 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The MIT Press
Number of pages
300
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Weight
1224g
Number of Pages
300
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780262511865
SKU
V9780262511865
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About Glenn Adamson
Glenn Adamson is curator at the Chipstone Foundation, Milwaukee.
Reviews for Industrial Strength Design: How Brooks Stevens Shaped Your World
Fascinating not only for its display of the products of Stevens's fertile mind but also for its drawing out of the implications his work had for social life. -Nancy Tousley, Calgary Herald A level of scholarship and editorial skill rare in design books from any source. -Martin Pawley, The Architect's Journal A level of ... Read more