Industrial Strength Design: How Brooks Stevens Shaped Your World

by Glenn Adamson

Book Overview

The first publication documenting the work of Brooks Stevens, one of America's most influential twentieth-century designers.

Industrial Strength Design: How Brooks Stevens Shaped Your World is a long overdue introduction to the work of visionary industrial designer Brooks Stevens (1911-1995). Believing that an industrial designer "should be a businessman, an engineer, and a stylist, in that order," Stevens created thousands of ingenious...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026251186X
• ISBN13: 9780262511865
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.4" x 11.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Great exhibition/Wonderful book

The subject of the book, Brooks Stevens, had an amazing career spanning decades. He lived in Milwaukee working for industrial giants but his influence spread far outside the Midwest. This book has wonderful essays, entries on specific design projects and great photos. The writing makes it interesting with anecdotal information and excerpts from Brooks Stevens.