Streamlining America and the rise of industrial design
A portrait of the postwar vogue for streamlined forms in American industry. Jeffrey Meikle traces how designers, manufacturers, and advertisers forged a mass market faith in better looking, faster goods. The book links dynamic rhetoric to artificial obsolescence in a booming consumer culture.
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Jeffrey Meikle
Meikle
Ant
Twentieth Century Limited
America
Jeffrey L. Meikle
Temple University Press
Raymond Loewy
Overlook Press
Industrial Design and the Streamlining Era
An overview of the rise of modern industrial design during the 1920s and 1930s led by Teague Geddes Dreyfuss and Loewy. It traces streamlined forms, new materials like Formica Bakelite aluminum and chrome, and the shift from wartime to postwar Bauhaus-influenced aesthetics. It notes Loewy as the adaptable leader driving brand identity and product recognition, and mentions his scrapbook titled Industrial Design.
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Walter Darwin Teague
Norman Bel Geddes
Henry Dreyfuss
Raymond Loewy
Bauhaus
Loewy
Raymond Loewy International
New York
Request for Klan probe rejected at Maryland prison
HAGERSTOWN AP corrections officials denied a group led by Samson Greene that Ku Klux Klan activity exists inside the Maryland Correctional Institution at Hagerstown. MCI has been under surveillance by multiple agencies, including the FBI, amid the Terrence Johnson case.
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Hagerstown
Maryland Correctional Institution At
Prisons Alternatives Committee
Samson Greene
MCI
FBI
Terrence Johnson
Johnson
Prince Georges County
Free cancer detection clinics announced for Carroll County
Free cancer detection clinics will be held Monday evening and Friday morning. The Carroll County Health Department offers Pap tests for cervical cancer and breast cancer education including a film on self examination. Nurses teach the procedure and callers can book appointments at three local numbers.
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County Health Department
American Cancer Society
Carroll County Health Department
Design Firm Ties Modern Movement to Concorde Interiors
An octogenarian designer behind the futuristic, pristine Air France Concorde interiors is linked to the modern movement in decorative art, as a review notes how his firm shaped the era's visual language.
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Air France
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