Industrial strength design : how Brooks Stevens shaped your world / Glenn Adamson ; [essays by John Heskett, Kristina Wilson, Jody Clowes].

Main entry:

Adamson, Glenn.

Title & Author:

Industrial strength design : how Brooks Stevens shaped your world / Glenn Adamson ; [essays by John Heskett, Kristina Wilson, Jody Clowes].

Publication:

Description:

xi, 219 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 28 cm

Notes:
Published to accompany an exhibition held at the Milwaukee Art Museum, June 7-Sept. 7, 2003.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-211) and index.
The desire for the new: the context of Brooks Stevens's career / John Heskett -- Brooks Stevens, the man in your life: shaping the domestic sphere, 1935-1950 / Kristina Wilson -- Brooks Stevens: "ego-inspiring styling" and the American dream / Jody Clowes -- Career and designs / Glenn Adamson -- One: Less than perfect: early influences and first designs, 1911-1934 -- Two: The right place at the right time: becoming an industrial designer in the Midwest, 1935-1940 -- Three: The prophet of profit: Stevens in wartime, 1941-1945 -- Four: The organization man: Stevens' best years, 1946-1955 -- Five: The enfant terrible of industrial design: planned obsolescence and other crimes against modernism, 1956-1978 -- Six: The seer who made Milwaukee famous: reluctant retirement, 1978-1994.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

This book documents the work of designer Brooks Stevens. It includes 250 illustrations of designs by Stevens and his firm, many in color, detailed studies of individual designs, interpretative essays, and several key writings by Stevens himself.

ISBN:

0262012073 (cloth)
9780262012072 (cloth)
0944110819 (pbk. ; for sale at the Milwaukee Art Museum only)
9780944110812 (pbk. ; for sale at the Milwaukee Art Museum only)
026251186X
9780262511865

Subject:

Stevens, Brooks, 1911-1995 Exhibitions.
Stevens, Brooks, 1911-1995.
Stevens, Brooks, 1911-
Stevens, Brooks 1911-1995
Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
Industrial designers Wisconsin Biography.
Industrial design United States History 20th century Exhibitions.
Design États-Unis.
Designers Wisconsin Biographies.
Design États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle Expositions.
Industrial design
Industrial designers
Industriedesign
Desenho industrial (história) Século 20 Estados unidos.
Design industriel.
Designer.
Stevens, Brooks 1911-1995 Exhibitions.
Industrial design United States History 20th century.
United States
Wisconsin

Form/genre:

collective biographies.
Biographies
Exhibition catalogs
History
Books.

Added entries:

Stevens, Brooks, 1911-1995.
Milwaukee Art Museum.

How Brooks Stevens shaped your world

Holdings:

Location: Library main 228956
Call No.: NK44.S844 A3 2003
Status: Available

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