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An edition of Industrial Strength Design (2003)

Industrial strength design

how Brooks Stevens shaped your world

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"Designer Brooks Stevens created thousands of ingenious and beautiful designs for industrial and household products - including a clothes dryer with a window in the front, a wide-mouthed peanut butter jar, and the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile. ("There's nothing more aerodynamic than a wiener," he explained.) In 1954 he coined the phrase "planned obsolescence," defining it as "instilling in the buyer the desire to own something a little newer, a little better, a little sooner than is necessary." This book, the first publication to document his work, includes 250 illustrations of designs by Stevens and his firm, many in color, detailed studies of individual designs, interpretive essays, a description of the Brooks Stevens Archive at the Milwaukee Art Museum, and several key writings by Stevens himself."--BOOK JACKET.

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Milwaukee Art Museum, MIT Press, The MIT Press, MIlwaukee Art Museum and MIT,
Language
English
Pages
219

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Subjects

Industrial Design, Exhibitions, Industrial designers, Biography, History

People

Brooks Stevens (1911-1995)

Places

United States

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Industrial Strength Design: How Brooks Stevens Shaped Your World
April 1, 2005, The MIT Press
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Industrial strength design: how Brooks Stevens shaped your world
2003, Milwaukee Art Museum, MIT Press, The MIT Press, MIlwaukee Art Museum and MIT,
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 210-211) and index.

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Milwaukee, WI, Cambridge, Mass

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Dewey Decimal Class
745.2/092
Library of Congress
TS140.S73 A33 2003, TS140.S73A33 2003, TS140.S74 A33 2003

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Pagination
xi, 219 p. :
Number of pages
219

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OL3696453M
ISBN 10
0262012073, 0944110819
LCCN
2003104427
OCLC/WorldCat
52774172
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2022594
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1267214

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