Industrial Strength Design
How Brooks Stevens Shaped Your World
- Paperback
300 pages
- Release Date
14 January 2005
Summary
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 produc…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262511865 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 026251186X |
| Author: | Glenn Adamson, David Gordon, John Heskett, Kristina Wilson, Jody Clowes |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 300 |
| Release Date: | 14 January 2005 |
| Weight: | 1.23kg |
| Dimensions: | 279mm x 241mm x 19mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
”…the story of a man, a time and the emergence of an idea-the20th-century American concept of innovation.” Craig M. Vogel AmericanScientist
“Uncommonly (and fittingly) well-designed and visually compelling.” - Publishers Weekly; “All of [Stevens’s] work is thoroughly illustrated, dated, Web-referenced, footnoted, and described in this book to an extent that speaks not only of a lifelong archive, but a level of scholarship and editorial skill rare in design books from any source.” - Martin Pawley, The Architects’ Journal; “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 bad for social life.” - Nancy Tousley, Calgary Herald”
About The Author
Glenn Adamson
Glenn Adamson is curator at the Chipstone Foundation, Milwaukee.
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