John Vassos : industrial design for modern life /

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"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Shapiro, Danielle, 1968- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2016.
Subjects:
Vassos, John, > 1898-1985.
Vassos, John, > 1898-1985
RCA Corporation > History > 20th century.
RCA Corporation
1900-1999
Industrial designers > United States > Biography.
Illustrators > United States > Biography.
Industrial design > United States > History > 20th century.
Designers > États-Unis > Biographies.
Illustrateurs > États-Unis > Biographies.
Design > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
ARCHITECTURE > History > Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
ARCHITECTURE > Individual Architects & Firms > General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Artists, Architects, Photographers.
ART > Folk & Outsider Art.
CRAFTS & HOBBIES > Folkcrafts.
Illustrators
Industrial design
Industrial designers
United States
Biography
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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