Interface - Ibm and the Transformation of Corporate Design, 19451976

Klappentext John Harwood is associate professor of architecture in the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture! Landscape! and Design at the University of Toronto. Zusammenfassung In 1956! IBM tapped the industrial designer and architect Eliot F. Noyes to reinvent the company's corporate image! from stationery and curtains to typewriters and computers to laboratory and administration buildings. IBM would go on to assemble a cast of leading figures in American design! including Charles Eames! Paul Rand! George Nelson! and Edgar Kaufmann Jr.! who transformed the relationships between design! computer science! and corporate culture. The Interface is the first critical history of the industrial design of the computer and an invaluable perspective on the computer and corporate cultures of today.

Product details

• Authors: John Harwood
• Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2016
• EAN: 9780816674527
• ISBN: 978-0-8166-7452-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Quadrant Book; A Quadrant Book; PostHumanities; A Quadrant Book; Quadrant Book
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture