American Streamlined Design

Author : David A. Hanks
Publisher : Flammarion
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Streamlined Design written by David A. Hanks and published by Flammarion. This book was released on 2005-08-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The twentieth century loved machines and the speed they made possible. Speeding cars, trains, and planes promised to conquer space and time; their aerodynamic styling and metal skins embodied a new and modern beauty, one that especially enchanted American designers from the late 1920s through the 1950s. Streamlining became the popular American style for all sorts of objects: from toy scooters to typewriters, from power tools to teakettles." "This book celebrates this beauty as epitomized by the work of Raymond Loewy, Kem Weber, Henry Dreyfuss, Norman Bel Geddes, as well as in works by many lesser-known industrial designers whose products are presented here for the first time. The book also demonstrates the resurgence of interest in streamlining among international vanguard designers from the 1980s to the present." "This volume is illustrated with patent drawings and period photographs showing how these dynamically styled objects were used. The one hundred eighty objects presented here, drawn from the Eric Brill Collection (recently donated to the American Friends of Canada) and supplemented by pieces from the Stewart Collection at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, were photographed for this book. A full bibliography, biographies of the designers, and index complete the study."--BOOK JACKET.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 11 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Streamlined Design written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalog of an exhibition held Feb. 6-May 15, 2011 at the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Author : Philippe Tretiack
Publisher : Universe Publishing(NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Raymond Loewy and Streamlined Design written by Philippe Tretiack and published by Universe Publishing(NY). This book was released on 1999 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a brief profile of the industrial designer who helped create the streamlined design, as exemplified in trucks, trains, buses, and cars.

Author : Christina Cogdell
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812221222
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eugenic Design written by Christina Cogdell and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1939, Vogue magazine invited commercial designer Raymond Loewy and eight of his contemporaries—including Walter Dorwin Teague, Egmont Arens, and Henry Dreyfuss—to design a dress for the "Woman of the Future" as part of its special issue promoting the New York World's Fair and its theme, "The World of Tomorrow." While focusing primarily on her clothing and accessories, many commented as well on the future woman's physique, predicting that her body and mind would be perfected through the implementation of eugenics. Industrial designers' fascination with eugenics—especially that of Norman Bel Geddes—began during the previous decade, and its principles permeated their theories of the modern design style known as "streamlining." In Eugenic Design, Christina Cogdell charts new territory in the history of industrial design, popular science, and American culture in the 1930s by uncovering the links between streamline design and eugenics, the pseudoscientific belief that the best human traits could—and should—be cultivated through selective breeding. Streamline designers approached products the same way eugenicists approached bodies. Both considered themselves to be reformers advancing evolutionary progress through increased efficiency, hygiene and the creation of a utopian "ideal type." Cogdell reconsiders the popular streamline style in U.S. industrial design and proposes that in theory, rhetoric, and context the style served as a material embodiment of eugenic ideology. With careful analysis and abundant illustrations, Eugenic Design is an ambitious reinterpretation of one of America's most significant and popular design forms, ultimately grappling with the question of how ideology influences design.

Author : Colin Alexander
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445693356
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Golden Age of Streamlining written by Colin Alexander and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colin Alexander looks at the interwar period, a high-water mark in industrial design as the benefits of streamlining were realised.

Author : David F. Noble
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307828492
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America by Design written by David F. Noble and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-01-23 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed a “significant contribution” by The New York Times, David Noble’s book America by Design describes the factors that have shaped the history of scientific technology in the United States. Since the beginning, technology and industry have been undeniably intertwined, and Noble demonstrates how corporate capitalism has not only become the driving force behind the development of technology in this country but also how scientific research—particularly within universities—has been dominated by the corporations who fund it, who go so far as to influence the education of the engineers that will one day create the technology to be used for capitalist gain. Noble reveals that technology, often thought to be an independent science, has always been a means to an end for the men pulling the strings of Corporate America—and it was these men that laid down the plans for the design of the modern nation today.

Author : Jeffrey Meikle
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1439904715
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twentieth Century Limited written by Jeffrey Meikle and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-04 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic, indispensable introduction to industrial design in the last century.

Author : Mike Schafer
Publisher : MBI Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0760303770
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Classic American Streamliners written by Mike Schafer and published by MBI Publishing Company. This book was released on 1997 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richly illustrated with over 200 photos, this book tells the story of railroad streamliners, from their early days as short little articulated speedsters to their halcyon years as 20-car "cities on wheels"--Places that were going somewhere. And it also tells a story of a time of individuality, when streamliners reflected the personality of the regions they served.

Author : Jonathan A. Stein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Curves of Steel written by Jonathan A. Stein and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deluxe volume that explores the evolution of the streamlined automotive shape from the 1930s to the 1990s.

Author : Brian Solomon
Publisher : MBI Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0760347476
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Streamliners written by Brian Solomon and published by MBI Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An examination of the introduction of streamliners to American railroading, including the technology and styling trends"--