Streamlining
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Steamlining and Familiar Objects
Pundits offer a number of reasons for our current economic crises. Many point to the greed of Wall Street as the single cause of our market troubles; others point to the housing bubble and sub-prime mortgages as the culprits. While these are certainly significant factors, there are also less talked-about causes: as a nation we have forgotten the tangible value of insightful design and skillful manufacturing; of vision, daring, and showmanship. In short, we have forgotten what those who founded our profession knew.
Sources:
Gantz, Carroll. Design Chronicles: Significant mass-produced designs of the 20th century. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd. 2005.
Nelson, George. Both Fish and Fowl, Fortune,1934.
Meikle, Jeffrey L. Twentieth Century Limited: Industrial Design in America. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 2001.
Van Doren, Harold. Industrial Design. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company. 1940. A second edition of this book was published in 1954.
Wilson, Richard Guy; Pilgrim, Dianne H.and Tashjian, Dickran. Machine Age in America: 1918-1941. Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum/Harry N. Abrams.1986.
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