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Norman Bel Geddes Designs America

Donald Albrecht

Author : Donald Albrecht
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Design
ISBN : 1419702998

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Norman Bel Geddes Designs America by Donald Albrecht Pdf

This book explores the career of one of the twentieth century's foremost theatrical and industrial designers. This book outlines the career of this complex and influential man through approximately fifty projects, bringing together never before exhibited drawings, models, photographs and films. Norman Bel Geddes was an innovative stage designer, director, producer, architect, industrial designer, futurist and urban planner. His professional credo was to simplify, to unify, to use form to communicate and, at times, shape function and to question the status quo. His research based approach to problem solving followed by his complete re imagining of a design problem, as if starting from scratch, resulted in the creation of a new, ideal product. hroughout his multi faceted career, Bel Geddes was a paradoxical figure made up of equal parts visionary and pragmatist, naturalist and industrialist, democrat and egoist. A number of products and practices now taken for granted can be traced directly back to Bel Geddes. His impact on the American landscape ranges from the U.S. federal highway system to all weather sports stadiums, revolving restaurants, modular domestic appliances and stylish home entertainment systems.

The Man Who Designed the Future

B. Alexandra Szerlip

Author : B. Alexandra Szerlip
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781612195629

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The Man Who Designed the Future by B. Alexandra Szerlip Pdf

Before there was Steve Jobs, there was Norman Bel Geddes. A ninth-grade dropout who found himself at the center of the worlds of industry, advertising, theater, and even gaming, Bel Geddes designed everything from the first all-weather stadium, to Manhattan's most exclusive nightclub, to Futurama, the prescient 1939 exhibit that envisioned how America would look in the not-too-distant 60s. In The Man Who Designed the Future, B. Alexandra Szerlip reveals precisely how central Bel Geddes was to the history of American innovation. He presided over a moment in which theater became immersive, function merged with form, and people became consumers. A polymath with humble Midwestern origins, Bel Geddes’ visionary career would launch him into social circles with the Algonquin roundtable members, stars of stage and screen, and titans of industry. Light on its feet but absolutely authoritative, this first major biography is a must for anyone who wants to know how America came to look the way it did.

Miracle in the Evening

Norman Bel Geddes

Author : Norman Bel Geddes
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781789127652

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MIRACLE IN THE EVENING is the autobiography of one of the most brilliant stage and industrial designers of our time. Norman Bel Geddes’ story is the drama of a young man who, having worked his way through school, climaxed a brilliant career with ideas that gave birth to some of the most spectacular theatrical productions of the last half century. Through Norman Bel Geddes’ story, as through the theater itself, pass the many colorful personalities of our age, lending brilliance and scope, good humor and compelling human interest. The life story of this ingenuous man is filled with names of the glittering and the great, such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Madame Schumann-Heink (his first portrait-sketch was of this famous contralto), Will Rogers, Charlie Chaplin, David Belasco, Horace Liveright, J. Walter Thompson, Walter Chrysler, Harold Ross, and many others—a fascinating story of a man who has more than once created for audiences a MIRACLE IN THE EVENING.

Norman Bel Geddes

Nicolas P. Maffei

Author : Nicolas P. Maffei
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781474284585

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Norman Bel Geddes by Nicolas P. Maffei Pdf

Norman Bel Geddes has long been considered the 'founder' of American industrial design. During his long career he worked on everything from theatre design, world fairs and cars to houses and product and packaging design. Nicolas P. Maffei's magisterial biography draws on original material from the archive at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin, and places Bel Geddes' work within the fast-changing cultural and intellectual contexts of his time. Maffei shows how Bel Geddes' futuristic but pragmatic style – his notion of 'practical vision' – was central to his work, and highly influential on the professional practice of American industrial design in general.

Designing Modern America

Christopher Innes

Author : Christopher Innes
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780300129557

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From the 1920s through the 1950s, two individuals, Joseph Urban and Norman Bel Geddes, did more, by far, to create the image of “America” and make it synonymous with modernity than any of their contemporaries. Urban and Bel Geddes were leading Broadway stage designers and directors who turned their prodigious talents to other projects, becoming mavericks first in industrial design and then in commercial design, fashion, architecture, and more. The two men gave shape to the most quintessential symbols of the modern American lifestyle, including movies, cars, department stores, and nightclubs, along with private homes, kitchens, stoves, fridges, magazines, and numerous household furnishings. Illustrated with more than 130 photographs of their influential designs, this book tells the engrossing story of Urban and Bel Geddes. Christopher Innes shows how these two men with a background in theater lent dramatic flair to everything they designed and how this theatricality gave the distinctive modernity they created such wide appeal. If the American lifestyle has been much imitated across the globe over the past fifty years, says Innes, it is due in large measure to the designs of Urban and Bel Geddes. Together they were responsible for creating what has been called the “Golden Age” of American culture.

Horizons

Norman Bel Geddes

Author : Norman Bel Geddes
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1015468713

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Horizons by Norman Bel Geddes Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Design History

Dennis P. Doordan

Author : Dennis P. Doordan
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1996-03-06
Category : Design
ISBN : 0262540762

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Design History by Dennis P. Doordan Pdf

his anthology compiled from volumes 3-10 of Design Issues, includes material from areas seldom discussed in existing surveys and will facilitate the general discourse within the design community on a wide range of conceptual and methodological issues of contemporary design history. Design history has emerged in recent years as a significant field of scholarly research and critical reflection. With their interest in the conceptualization, production, and consumption of objects (large and small, unique or multiple, anonymous or signed) and environments (ephemeral or enduring, public or private), design historians investigate the multiple ways in which intentionally produced objects, environments, and experiences both shape and reflect their historical moments. This anthology compiled from volumes 3-10 of Design Issues, includes material from areas seldom discussed in existing surveys and will facilitate the general discourse within the design community on a wide range of conceptual and methodological issues of contemporary design history. Individual essays investigate various aspects of design in the modern era. They provide fresh insights on familiar figures such as Harley Earl and Norman Bel Geddes and shed new light on neglected aspects of design history such as the history of women in early American graphic design or the history of modern design in China. The essays are grouped in three broad categories: Graphic Design, Design in the American Corporate Milieu, and Design in the Context of National Experiences. Contributors David Brett, Bradford R. Collins, Dennis P. Doordan, David Gartman, Gyorgy Haiman, Larry D. Luchmansingh, Roland Marchand, Enric Satué, Mitchell Schwarzer, Paul Shaw, Svetlana Sylvestrova, Ellen Mazur Thomson, Matthew Turner, John Turpin, Shou Zhi Wang. A Design Issues Reader

Horizons (Classic Reprint)

Norman Bel Geddes

Author : Norman Bel Geddes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1332140580

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Horizons (Classic Reprint) by Norman Bel Geddes Pdf

Excerpt from Horizons Horizons was written by Norman Bel Geddes in 1932. This is a 319 page book, containing 68519 words and 73 pictures. Search Inside is enabled for this title. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Norman Bel Geddes

Nicolas P. Maffei

Author : Nicolas P. Maffei
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781474284578

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Norman Bel Geddes by Nicolas P. Maffei Pdf

Norman Bel Geddes has long been considered the 'founder' of American industrial design. During his long career he worked on everything from theatre design, world fairs and cars to houses and product and packaging design. Nicolas P. Maffei's magisterial biography draws on original material from the archive at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin, and places Bel Geddes' work within the fast-changing cultural and intellectual contexts of his time. Maffei shows how Bel Geddes' futuristic but pragmatic style – his notion of 'practical vision' – was central to his work, and highly influential on the professional practice of American industrial design in general.

Follies of God

James Grissom

Author : James Grissom
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101972779

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Follies of God by James Grissom Pdf

This remarkably illuminating portrait of Tennessee Williams lifts the veil on the heart and soul of his artistic inspiration: the unspoken collaboration between playwright and actor. At a low moment in Williams’s life, he summoned to New Orleans a young twenty-year-old writer, James Grissom, who had written him a letter asking for advice. After a long, intense conversation, Williams sent Grissom on a journey on his behalf to find out if he or his work had mattered to those who had so deeply mattered to him. Among the more than seventy women and men with whom Grissom talked were giants of American theater and film: Lillian Gish, (“the escort who brought me to Blanche”), Jessica Tandy (the original Blanche DuBois on Broadway), Eva Le Gallienne (“She was a stone against which I could rub my talent and feel that it became sharper”), Maureen Stapleton, Julie Harris, Bette Davis, Katherine Hepburn, Elia Kazan, Marlon Brando, John Gielgud, and many more. Follies of God provides dazzling insight into how Williams conjured the dramatic characters and plays that so transformed American theater.

American Streamlined Design

David A. Hanks,Anne Hoy

Author : David A. Hanks,Anne Hoy
Publisher : Flammarion
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005-08-30
Category : Design
ISBN : UCSD:31822035237023

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American Streamlined Design by David A. Hanks,Anne Hoy Pdf

"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.

Eugenic Design

Christina Cogdell

Author : Christina Cogdell
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780812221220

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Eugenic Design by Christina Cogdell Pdf

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.

The Man Who Designed the Future

B. Alexandra Szerlip

Author : B. Alexandra Szerlip
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781612195551

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The Man Who Designed the Future by B. Alexandra Szerlip Pdf

Before there was Steve Jobs, there was Norman Bel Geddes. A ninth-grade dropout who found himself at the center of the worlds of industry, advertising, theater, and even gaming, Bel Geddes designed everything from the first all-weather stadium, to Manhattan's most exclusive nightclub, to Futurama, the prescient 1939 exhibit that envisioned how America would look in the not-too-distant 60s. In The Man Who Designed the Future, B. Alexandra Szerlip reveals precisely how central Bel Geddes was to the history of American innovation. He presided over a moment in which theater became immersive, function merged with form, and people became consumers. A polymath with humble Midwestern origins, Bel Geddes’ visionary career would launch him into social circles with the Algonquin roundtable members, stars of stage and screen, and titans of industry. Light on its feet but absolutely authoritative, this first major biography is a must for anyone who wants to know how America came to look the way it did.

Norman Bel Geddes

James Longford

Author : James Longford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1688993819

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Norman Bel Geddes by James Longford Pdf

In the 1920s, design began to be as important a factor in the sale of goods in the United States as utility had always been. A profession of industrial designer developed of which Norman Bel Geddes was one of the first practitioners in 1927. After the start of the Great Depression, American industry increasingly prioritised aesthetic appeal in order to stimulate sales. Geddes took the idea of streamlining, which was not new, and used it as the theme of his book Horizons (1932), so helping to propagate it across America. Originally relating only to the movement of solid matter through fluids, streamlining became symbolic of modernity in the United States and was applied even to products that did not move, thus showing it was as important metaphorically and aesthetically as it was in practical terms. The language and theoretical underpinnings of streamlining was a synthesis of scientific research, ideas related to the anti-ornamentation credo of Adolph Loos, and Evolutionary and Eugenicist theory. The Modernist slogan of form following function was also important but, in practice, streamlining just as often hid real form in pursuit of more saleable goods that were not that different on the inside from the old ones. His designs ranged from items such as furniture, drinkware, and appliances, to large projects on the borderlines of practicality that reflected his inherent showmanship, grandiosity, and lack of reverence for historical precedent. Modularity and model-making recur throughout his work. He gave his ideas an aura of inevitability and the sense that they were the logical result of existing trends and technology. They were just within the grasp of the contemporary imagination and for a future that would arrive soon. He said he was no Jules Verne and never admitted that anything he designed was impossible. This book covers the critical phase of his career from the publication of Horizons to his design for the Futurama at the 1939 New York World's Fair, examining his key works of that period and placing them in context within his career and against the background of inter-war American design.

Norman Bel Geddes

Nic Maffei

Author : Nic Maffei
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Design
ISBN : 1474284604

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Norman Bel Geddes by Nic Maffei Pdf

"Norman Bel Geddes has long been considered the "founder' of American industrial design. During his long career he worked on everything from theatre design, world fairs and cars to houses and product and packaging design. Nicolas P. Maffei's magisterial biography draws on original material from the archive at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin, and places Bel Geddes' work within the fast-changing cultural and intellectual contexts of his time. Maffei shows how Bel Geddes' futuristic but pragmatic style "his notion of "practical vision'" was central to his work, and highly influential on the professional practice of American industrial design in general."--

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Miracle in the Evening by Norman Bel Geddes Pdf

Norman Bel Geddes by Nicolas P. Maffei Pdf

Designing Modern America by Christopher Innes Pdf

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Design History by Dennis P. Doordan Pdf

Horizons (Classic Reprint) by Norman Bel Geddes Pdf

Norman Bel Geddes by Nicolas P. Maffei Pdf

Follies of God by James Grissom Pdf

American Streamlined Design by David A. Hanks,Anne Hoy Pdf

Eugenic Design by Christina Cogdell Pdf

The Man Who Designed the Future by B. Alexandra Szerlip Pdf

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