Author: Gregory Votolato
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719045318
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 301
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Author Greg Votolato presents the intricate story of how design evolved as a profession and a leisure activity. Votolato demonstrates that design in affluent American culture is as much about personalization of the material world as it is about the performance and appearance of manufactured goods. 114 illustrations.
Author: Gregory Votolato
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719045318
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 301
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Author Greg Votolato presents the intricate story of how design evolved as a profession and a leisure activity. Votolato demonstrates that design in affluent American culture is as much about personalization of the material world as it is about the performance and appearance of manufactured goods. 114 illustrations.
Author: Russell Flinchum
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art
ISBN: 9780870707407
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 159
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"The story of American design, told through works selected from the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York" -- from back cover.
Author: Arthur J. Pulos
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262161060
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 446
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Traces the history of U.S. industrial design, looks at architecture, cars, furniture, appliances, packaging, and trademarks, and discusses the social economic aspects of design
Author: Suzanne E. Chapman
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486995739
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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"Contains a new selection of designs from Early American design motifs by Suzanne E. Chapman, originally published ... in 1974"--P. [2] of cover.
Author: Marie Ann Frank
Publisher: UPNE
ISBN: 1611680123
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 321
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The life and thought of one of the founders of twentieth-century American design
Author: Baker H. Morrow
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826317797
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 241
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Take a fascinating journey through Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde with leading southwestern archaeologists, historians, architects, artists, and urban planners as guides. Twenty-two essays identify Anasazi building and cultural features related to design and site planning, history, mythology, and ecology. 40 halftones. 5 maps.
Author: Carroll Gantz
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786476869
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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As the Great Depression started in 1929, several dozen creative individuals from a variety of artistic fields, including theatre, advertising, graphics, fashion and furniture design, pioneered a new profession. Responding to unprecedented public and industry demand for new styles, these artists entered the industrial world during what was called the "Machine Age," to introduce "modern design" to the external appearance and form of mass-produced, functional, mechanical consumer products formerly not considered art. The popular designs by these "machine designers" increased sales and profits dramatically for manufacturers, which helped the economy to recover; established a new profession, industrial design; and within a decade, changed American products from mechanical monstrosities into sleek, modern forms expressive of the future. This book is about those industrial designers and how they founded, developed, educated and organized today's profession of more than 50,000 practitioners.
Author: Jamie Holmes
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 1328459853
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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The riveting story of the American scientists, tinkerers, and nerds who solved one of the biggest puzzles of World War II—and developed one of the most powerful weapons of the war 12 Seconds of Silence is the remarkable, lost story of how a ragtag group of American scientists overcame one of the toughest problems of World War II: shooting things out of the sky. Working in a secretive organization known as Section T, a team of physicists, engineers, and everyday Joes and Janes took on a devilish challenge. To help the Allies knock airplanes out of the air, they created one of the world’s first “smart weapons.” Against overwhelming odds and in a race against time, mustering every scrap of resource, ingenuity, and insight, the scientists of Section T would eventually save countless lives, rescue the city of London from the onslaught of a Nazi superweapon, and help bring about the Axis defeat. A holy grail sought after by Allied and Axis powers alike, their unlikely innovation ranks with the atomic bomb as one of the most revolutionary technologies of the Second World War. Until now, their tale was largely untold. For fans of Erik Larson and Ben Macintyre, set amidst the fog of espionage, dueling spies, and the dawn of an age when science would determine the fate of the world, 12 Seconds of Silence is a tribute to the extraordinary wartime mobilization of American science and the ultimate can-do story.
Author: Avery Library
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
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Category : Building, Iron and steel
Languages : en
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