Flinchum / Meyer Henry Dreyfuss

Designing for People
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4384-9139-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 362 Seiten, Format (B × H): 216 mm x 279 mm

Celebrates the design work of Henry Dreyfuss and his associates that revolutionized 20th century industrial design from telephones to trains to thermostats.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Flinchum, Russell A.

Meyer, Ralph O.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Design Produktdesign, Industriedesign

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction

PART I. ORIGINS OF THE FIRM

1. The Education of Henry Dreyfuss

2. Doris Marks, Borough President’s Daughter

3. Launching the Firm

PART II. THE PATH TO RECOGNITION

4. Stepping Stones to Success

5. The Famous Train, 20th Century Limited

6. American Export Lines

7. Lockheed Aircraft and Air Force One

8. Promotional Activities

PART III. THE ENSEMBLE BECOMES AN ORCHESTRA

9. Bell Telephone System

10. John Deere

11. Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Company

12. Crane Company

13. Anthropometrics

PART IV. REORGANIZATION AND EVENTUAL DISSOLUTION

14. Expanding Business

15. Reorganization

16. After Dreyfuss Left

APPENDIX. DESIGN HIGHLIGHTS CHOSEN BY DREYFUSS

10 Years of Industrial Design 1929–1939

A Record of Industrial Designs 1929 through 1946

Industrial Design, A Progress Report, 1929–1952

Industrial Design, A Pictorial Accounting, 1929–1957

Industrial Design Volume 5

References
Index
About the Authors

Über Autor(innen)

Russell A. Flinchum is Associate Professor in the College of Design at North Carolina State University. He is the author of Henry Dreyfuss, Industrial Designer: The Man in the Brown Suit and American Design. Ralph O. Meyer is a physicist and the author of Old-Time Telephones!