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Norman Bel Geddes Designs America
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Author : Donald Albrecht
language : en
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Release Date : 2012-11-01
Norman Bel Geddes Designs America written by Donald Albrecht and has been published by Harry N. Abrams this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-01 with Design categories.
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.
Norman Bel Geddes Designs America
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Author : Donald Albrecht
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Norman Bel Geddes Designs America written by Donald Albrecht and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Design categories.
Norman Bel Geddes
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Author : Nicolas P. Maffei
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2018-02-22
Norman Bel Geddes written by Nicolas P. Maffei and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-22 with Design categories.
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.
Norman Bel Geddes
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Author : James Longford
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-08-29
Norman Bel Geddes written by James Longford and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-29 with categories.
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.
The Man Who Designed The Future
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Author : B. Alexandra Szerlip
language : en
Publisher: Melville House
Release Date : 2017-04-25
The Man Who Designed The Future written by B. Alexandra Szerlip and has been published by Melville House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-25 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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
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Author : Nic Maffei
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Norman Bel Geddes written by Nic Maffei and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Design categories.
"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."--
Miracle In The Evening
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Author : Norman Bel Geddes
language : en
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Release Date : 2018-12-02
Miracle In The Evening written by Norman Bel Geddes and has been published by Pickle Partners Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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
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Author : Bernhard Russell Works
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
Norman Bel Geddes written by Bernhard Russell Works and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Stage lighting categories.
Magic Motorways
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Author : Norman Bel Geddes
language : en
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Release Date : 2022-10-26
Magic Motorways written by Norman Bel Geddes and has been published by Legare Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-26 with History categories.
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.
Norman Bel Geddes
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Author : Jennifer Davis Roberts
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
Norman Bel Geddes written by Jennifer Davis Roberts and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Design, Industrial categories.