John Vassos : industrial design for modern life /
"What should a television look like? How should a dial on a radio feel to the touch? These were questions John Vassos asked when the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) asked him to design the first mass-produced television receiver, the TRK-12, which had its spectacular premier at the 1939 New...
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
2016.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Introduction: Creating design we can live with
- 1. Drawing modernity : advertising and book illustrations
- 2. Becoming an industrial designer
- 3. Modernizing the home through radio
- 4. Designed for electricity : Vassos's architectural interiors
- 5. Vassos and RCA : money, media, and modernism
- 6. The TRK-12 : RCA's first mass-marketed television receiver
- 7. John Vassos in postwar America
- Conclusion: The legacy of John Vassos.