U.S. industrial designer born in Monroeville, IN, who was a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1936. From 1935 to 1950 he was vice president of the industrial design firm, Barnes & Reinecke, Inc. in Chicago. From 1950 to 1960, he was a partner of Painter/Teague/Petertil, industrial designers in Chicago, and from 1960 to 1972, was the owner of David Painter, Industrial Design. From 1972 to 1980, he was a partner in Painter/Crabtree/Agassi in Glenview, IL and after 1980, a partner of Painter/Cessaroni industrial design in Glenview.

         His firms had many clients, including Texas Instruments, Bell & Howell, Outboard Marine, 3M Company, and West Bend. Among the many designs was the Regency TR-1 Transistor radio at Painter/Teague/Petertil, which sold 100,000 the first year, and won an award from the Society of Industrial Designers, of which he was a member. The TR-1 was also selected by the Museum of Modern Art for the American Art and Design Exhibition in Paris in 1955. Other design awards included one in 1966 from the National Housewares Manufacturing Association. He was also a member of the Arts Club of Chicago.

     U.S. industrial designer born in Brooklyn, NY, who attended special art classes from elementary through high school, graduating from Boy’s High School, Brooklyn, in 1937. He then received a B.A. in Fine Arts at Brooklyn College, and then a certificate in mechanical engineering at the City College of New York. He took a position at the Emerson Electric Manufacturing Co. in St. Louis, MO, designing machinery for military aircraft for several years.

     Goldberg entered the military intelligence service as a Navy Ensign in about 1942, and was stationed in Hawaii redesigning Navy bombers. In 1946 he worked with Belle Kogan Design and with Donald Deskey Associates, both in New York. In 1947 he opened his own office as Robert I. Goldberg Associates, and headed the firm, later called Associated Industrial Designers, for 50 years, until 1997. In 1948 he received a M.A. degree from Columbia University, and his firm was redesigning Navy PT boats for non-military use, and designing the Aqua King, a cabin cruiser.

       In 1950, he became president of the American Designers Institute (ADI), (see photo at http://www.idsa.org/history-idsa), and founded a second firm, Design for Selling, Inc., which operated for 10 years, designing retail stores, displays, and packaging. During this period he began teaching a course in industrial design at the Evening Art School of Pratt Institute, and in 1953 attended graduate school at New York University leading to a doctorate in marketing, after which. from 1955 to 1964, as adjunct professor, he taught a course in industrial design in the School of Business there.

                                               Gene took a special interest in design and art at an early age. He began college at the Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA) but was interrupted by World War II, when he enlisted in the armed services. He engineered maps and camouflage for air fields in North Africa, before an interest in aircraft led Gene to the 2nd Bomb Group in Foggia, Italy. He volunteered for and navigated in the 2nd BG’s two most costly raids of the war in February, 1944.

                                               In 1946 he returned to Cleveland to finish his degree and join the CIA faculty. After a year with George Walker’s design office in Detroit, Gene, a classmate, Samuel Scherr, and Bernard McDermott, opened a design office in Akron, OH; Smith, Scherr, and McDermott. In 1960, Gene left the office to establish his own firm, F. Eugene Smith Associates, Inc. in Akron.

                                               A dedicated environmentalist, Gene developed a slide show about aesthetic awareness entitled, “Why Ugliness? Why not?” Gene was invited to repeat “The Ugly Show” over 700 times. In the early 1970’s Gene designed the conversion of Akron’s Old Quaker Mills and Silos to Quaker Square, a project that was published nationally. In 1977 he founded F. Eugene Smith/Design Management, Inc. in Akron