Damsels in Design
Women Pioneers in the Automotive Industry, 1939â1959
In the mid-1950s, an innovative group of women at General Motors (dubbed the Damsels of Design by marketers) and their counterparts at Ford, Hudson, Studebaker, Packard, and Tucker changed automotive history forever. Read the untold story of the women who excelled in the Mad Men era of automobile and industrial design. Recruited by top CEOs at automotive companies, they developed many of the products we take for granted today. Learn about Helene Rother, who designed the instrument panel, hardware, and seat construction for midcentury Cadillacs; Elizabeth Thatcher Oros, the first female trained in industrial design; and discover the history be…
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- ISBN: 978-0-7643-5435-9
- EAN: 9780764354359
- Produktnummer: 22902994
- Verlag: Schiffer Publishing
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 192 S.
- Masse: H27.9 cm x B21.5 cm 1'260 g
- Gewicht: 1260
Über den Autor
Constance Smith holds a bachelor of fine arts and a masters' degree in industrial design from Pratt Institute. After joining GM's Advanced Studio, she worked on the development of TN LCDs.
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