Eliot Noyes

Author : John Harwood
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781452932842

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The Interface by John Harwood Pdf

" In February 1956 the president of IBM, Thomas Watson Jr., hired the industrial designer and architect Eliot F. Noyes, charging him with reinventing IBM’s corporate image, from stationery and curtains to products such as typewriters and computers and to laboratory and administration buildings. What followed—a story told in full for the first time in John Harwood’s The Interface—remade IBM in a way that would also transform the relationships between design, computer science, and corporate culture. IBM’s program assembled a cast of leading figures in American design: Noyes, Charles Eames, Paul Rand, George Nelson, and Edgar Kaufmann Jr. The Interface offers a detailed account of the key role these designers played in shaping both the computer and the multinational corporation. Harwood describes a surprising inverse effect: the influence of computer and corporation on the theory and practice of design. Here we see how, in the period stretching from the “invention” of the computer during World War II to the appearance of the personal computer in the mid-1970s, disciplines once well outside the realm of architectural design—information and management theory, cybernetics, ergonomics, computer science—became integral aspects of design. As the first critical history of the industrial design of the computer, of Eliot Noyes’s career, and of some of the most important work of the Office of Charles and Ray Eames, The Interface supplies a crucial chapter in the story of architecture and design in postwar America—and an invaluable perspective on the computer and corporate cultures of today. "

Author : Gordon Bruce
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-16
Category : Design
ISBN : 0714843504

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Eliot Noyes by Gordon Bruce Pdf

The first publication about Eliot Noyes, an important figure in 20th-century design in America.

Author : Jeffrey L. Meikle
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Plastics
ISBN : 0813522358

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American Plastic by Jeffrey L. Meikle Pdf

"(Meikle) traces the course of plastics from 19th-century celluloid and the first wholly synthetic bakelite, in 1907, through the proliferation of compounds (vinyls, acrylics, nylon, etc.) and recent ecological concerns".--PUBLISHERS WEEKLY. Winner of the 1996 Dexter Prize from the Society for the History of Technology and a 1996 CHOICE Oustanding Academic Book. 70 illustrations.

Author : Carma Gorman
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2003-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781581153101

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The Industrial Design Reader by Carma Gorman Pdf

This groundbreaking anthology is the first to focus exclusively on the history of industrial design. With essays written by some of the greatest designers, visionaries, policy makers, theorists, critics and historians of the past two centuries, this book traces the history of industrial design, industrialization, and mass production in the United States and throughout the world.

Author : Austin Porter,Sandra Zalman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781350186361

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Modern in the Making by Austin Porter,Sandra Zalman Pdf

Today the Museum of Modern Art is widely recognized for establishing the canon of modern art; yet in its early years, the museum considered modern art part of a still unfolding experiment in contemporary visual production. By bracketing MoMA's early history from its later reputation, this book explores the ways the Museum acted as a laboratory to set an ambitious agenda for the exhibition of a multidisciplinary idea of modern art. Between its founding in 1929 and its 20th anniversary in 1949, MoMA created the first museum departments of architecture and design, film, and photography in the country, marshaled modern art as a political tool, and brought consumer culture into a versatile yet institutional context. Encompassing 14 essays that investigate the diversity of modern art, this volume demonstrates how MoMA's programming shaped a version of modern art that was not elitist but fundamentally intertwined with all levels of cultural production.

Author : Alex Bevan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781501331428

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The Aesthetics of Nostalgia TV by Alex Bevan Pdf

The Aesthetics of Nostalgia TV explores the aesthetic politics of nostalgia for 1950s and 60s America on contemporary television. Specifically, it looks at how nostalgic TV production design shapes and is shaped by larger historical discourses on gender and technological change, and America's perceived decline as a global power. Alex Bevan argues that the aesthetics of nostalgic TV tell stories of their own about historical decline and progress, and the place of the baby boomer television suburb in American national memory. She contests theories on nostalgia that see it as stagnating, regressive, or a reversion to outdated gender and racial politics, and the technophobic longing for a bygone era; and, instead, argues nostalgia is an important form of historical memory and vehicle for negotiating periods of historical transition. The book addresses how and why the shows construct the boomer era as a placeholder for gender, racial, technological, and declensionist discourses of the present. The book uses Mad Men (AMC, 2007-2015), Ugly Betty (ABC, 2006-2010), Desperate Housewives (ABC, 2004-2012), and film remakes of 1950s and 60s family sitcoms as primary case studies.

Author : David Raizman
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Design
ISBN : 1856693481

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History of Modern Design by David Raizman Pdf

An exploration of the parallel development of product and graphic design from the 18th century to the 21st. The effects of mass production and consumption, man-made industrial materials and extended lines of communication are also discussed.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1428 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 197?
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951D03524861K

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Federal advisory committees by Anonim Pdf

Author : Susan Farrell
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438100234

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Critical Companion to Kurt Vonnegut by Susan Farrell Pdf

Kurt Vonnegut is one of the most popular and admired authors of post-war American literaturefamous both for his playful and deceptively simple style as well as for his scathing critiques of social injustice and war. Criti.

Author : Muriel Emanuel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 935 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-23
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781349041848

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Contemporary Architects by Muriel Emanuel Pdf

Author : Cynthia Fowler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351563536

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Hooked Rugs by Cynthia Fowler Pdf

Through a close look at the history of the modernist hooked rug, this book raises important questions about the broader history of American modernism in the first half of the twentieth century. Although hooked rugs are not generally associated with the avant-garde, this study demonstrates that they were a significant part of the artistic production of many artists engaged in modernist experimentation. Cynthia Fowler discusses the efforts of Ralph Pearson and of Zoltan and Rosa Hecht to establish modernist hooked rug industries in the 1920s, uncovering a previously undocumented history. The book includes a consideration of the rural workers used to create the modernist narrative of the hooked rug, as cottage industries were established throughout the rural Northeast and South to serve the ever increasing demand for hooked rugs by urban consumers. Fowler closely examines institutional enterprises that highlighted and engaged the modernist hooked rugs, such as key exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the 1930s and '40s. This study reveals the fluidity of boundaries among art, craft and design, and the profound efforts of a devoted group of modernists to introduce the general public to the value of modern art.

Author : William Lidwell,Gerry Manacsa
Publisher : Rockport Pub
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781592537396

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Deconstructing Product Design by William Lidwell,Gerry Manacsa Pdf

Offers critical analyses of one hundred innovative products to examine their design and assess patterns of success or failure.

Author : Jonathan M. Woodham
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1997-04-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 0192842048

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Twentieth Century Design by Jonathan M. Woodham Pdf

A look at the wider issues of design and industrial culture throughout Europe, Scandinavia, North America, and the Far East. The book explores the way in which 20th-century designs such as the Coca-Cola bottle have affected our culture more than those considered true classics

Author : Joseph Pearce
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781681493015

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Literary Converts by Joseph Pearce Pdf

Literary Converts is a biographical exploration into the spiritual lives of some of the greatest writers in the English language: Oscar Wilde, Evelyn Waugh, C.S. Lewis, Malcolm Muggeridge, Graham Greene, Edith Sitwell, Siegfried Sassoon, Hilaire Belloc, G.K. Chesterton, Dorothy Sayers, T.S. Eliot and J.R.R. Tolkien. The role of George Bernard Shaw and H.G. Wells in intensifying the religious debate despite not being converts themselves is also considered. Many will be intrigued to know more about what inspired their literary heroes; others will find the association of such names with Christian belief surprising or even controversial. Whatever viewpoint we may have, Literary Converts touches on some of the most important questions of the twentieth century, making it a fascinating read.

Author : Shannan Clark
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199912643

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The Making of the American Creative Class by Shannan Clark Pdf

During the middle decades of the twentieth century, the production of America's consumer culture was centralized in midtown Manhattan to an extent unparalleled in the history of the modern United States. Within a few square miles of skyscrapers were the headquarters of networks like NBC and CBS, the editorial offices of book publishers and mass circulation magazines such as Time and Life, numerous influential newspapers, and major advertising agencies on Madison Avenue. Every day tens of thousands of writers, editors, artists, performers, technicians, secretaries, and other white-collar workers made advertisements, produced media content, and enhanced the appearance of goods in order to boost sales. While this center of creativity has often been portrayed as a smoothly running machine, within these offices many white-collar workers challenged the managers and executives who directed their labors. In this definitive history, The Making of the American Creative Class examines these workers and their industries throughout the twentieth century. As manufacturers and retailers competed to attract consumers' attention, their advertising expenditures financed the growth of enterprises engaged in the production of culture, which in turn provided employment for an increasing number of clerical, technical, professional, and creative workers. The book explores employees' efforts to improve their working conditions by forming unions, experimenting with alternative media and cultural endeavors supported by public, labor, or cooperative patronage, and expanding their opportunities for creative autonomy. As blacklisting and attacks on militant unions left them destroyed or weakened, workers in advertising, design, publishing, and broadcasting in the late twentieth century were constrained in their ability to respond to economic dislocations and to combat discrimination in the culture industries. At once a portrait of a city and the national culture of consumer capitalism it has produced, The Making of the American Creative Class is an innovative narrative of modern American history that addresses issues of earnings and status still experienced by today's culture workers.