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Eliot Noyes

Autor Gordon Bruce
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 2007

Descoperim în paginile acestui volum o perspectivă intimă asupra modului în care designul industrial a modelat identitatea corporatistă americană, un aspect care rămăsese până acum fragmentat în arhivele marilor companii. Apreciem felul în care Gordon Bruce reușește să îmbine rigoarea monografică cu amintirile personale rezultate din deceniul petrecut alături de subiectul său. Această lucrare publicată de Phaidon Press nu este doar o cronică a obiectelor, ci o analiză a unei viziuni care a transformat companii precum IBM sau Mobil Oil din simple entități economice în repere culturale. Experimentăm, prin intermediul celor peste 500 de ilustrații, procesul creativ din spatele unor piese fundamentale ale secolului XX, de la celebra mașină de scris IBM Selectric până la arhitectura premiată a reședinței familiei Noyes din Connecticut. Structura narativă este fluidă, alternând între proiecte grafice, arhitectură și design de produs, reflectând versatilitatea unui om care a început în biroul lui Walter Gropius pentru a ajunge primul director de design industrial la MoMA. Pe raftul de artă, alături de Designing for People de Henry Dreyfuss, acest album se distinge prin accentul pus pe managementul designului ca strategie de business și prin capacitatea de a arăta cum un singur om a putut orchestra colaborări între giganți precum Paul Rand sau Charles Eames. Tonul este unul autoritar, dar cald, oferind detalii tehnice fără a pierde din vedere dimensiunea umană a inovației. Reținem în mod special diagrama influențelor de pe coperta din spate, un instrument vizual fascinant care cartografiază rețeaua de relații profesionale ce a definit modernismul american.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780714843506
ISBN-10: 0714843504
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 261 x 297 x 32 mm
Greutate: 1.81 kg
Editura: Phaidon Press
Locul publicării:United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Această monografie este esențială pentru cei care doresc să înțeleagă cum designul devine un instrument strategic în lumea afacerilor. Cititorul descoperă culisele creării unor obiecte care au definit estetica cotidiană a secolului XX, beneficiind de expertiza unui autor care a lucrat direct cu Eliot Noyes. Este o lecție de viziune, estetică și leadership creativ, prezentată într-un format grafic de o calitate excepțională, specifică editurii Phaidon.


Recenzii

'Bruce, who worked with Noyes for around 10 years up to his death, knows his stuff. The text is conversational yet authoritative and the personal insights prove he was there. Discreetly designed with over 500 illustrations, it has a gorgeous back cover with an intriguing spider graph of Noyes' influence. ... Gropius said of Noyes that he was "the only architect to make effective use of the Bauhaus' academic principles." Read this and find out why.' Building Design 'a great insight into Noyes' life, featuring extended interviews with many of his relatives and acquaintances, and bursting with colour photography, drawings plans and a diverse range of documentary material' Wonderland 'The story of the Bauhaus refugees' influence on American design is well known; but is is surely architect, educator and design consultant Eliot Noyes who warrants a place in history as the one who fed the Bauhaus system of 'total design' in the maw of corporate America.' Architecture Today 'biographies of the great American designers of the mid-20th century have a heroic quality that makes them different from those of other lands and eras. ... Noyes is less well known, yet his is a remarkable story. ... [a] combination of architecture with industrial design [...] made Noyes [...] well positioned to transform the image of American industry ... This book is a fine tribute, beautifully designed, to a major player.' World of Interiors

Descriere scurtă

The first publication about Eliot Noyes, an important figure in 20th-century design in America.

Descriere

Eliot Noyes was a remarkable figure in twentieth-century design. An architect who began his career working in the office of Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, he went on to become the first Director of the Industrial Design department at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in the 1940s. From the late 1950s until his death in 1977, he was Consulting Director of Design for IBM, Mobil Oil, Westinghouse and Cummins Engine Company, and was responsible for bringing about a change in the way that these corporations, and others that followed, were to think about design and its impact on business. He enlisted pioneering designers, including Charles Eames, Paul Rand, Ivan Chermayeff and Tom Geismar, to help him bring about innovative architectural, graphic and industrial design. He was personally responsible for the design of some notable twentieth-century classics, such as IBM's Selectric typewriter and Mobil Oil's service stations and petrol pumps. His own work includes architectural projects, such as the award-winning Noyes family residence in Connecticut. This is the first monograph to trace the life of this unique architect and designer who devoted a great deal of his career to encouraging large American businesses to respect and develop policies that were rich in cultural expression.