John Vassos: Industrial Design for Modern Life by Danielle Shapiro ISBN 13: 9780816693412

University of Minnesota Press, 2016. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,850grams, ISBN:9780816693412

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016. Softcover. VG. White illustrated softcover with yellow and gray lettering. xvii, 274 pp. BW illustrations. In John Vassos: Industrial Design for Modern Life, Danielle Shapiro is the first to examine the life and work of RCA's key consultant designer through the rise of radio and television and into the computer era. Vassos conceived a vision for the look of new technologies still with us today. A founder of the Industrial Designers Society of America, he was instrumental in the development of a self-conscious industrial design profession during the late 1920s and 1930s and into the postwar period. Drawing on unpublished records and correspondence, Shapiro creates a portrait of a designer whose early artistic work in books like Phobia and Contempo critiqued the commercialization of modern life but whose later design work sought to accommodate it. -Google Books.

Paperback / softback. New. Based on the author's dissertation (Ph. D.)--Department of Art History and Communications Studies at McGill University. 2005.

Univ of Minnesota Pr, 2016. Paperback. New. 288 pages. 10.00x7.00x1.50 inches.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.