How ballpoint pens and a new world flight record saved us from applying deodorant by hand
The odyssey, at times hilarious, of the ballpoint pen is a window into the entrepreneurship, tenacity, keen timing, and cognizance of consumer mentality that defined the American business world at the start of… Read more »
Don’t just look at buildings — read about them, too!
This Saturday in New York City, Storefront for Art and Architecture—in partnership with The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union—will be hosting the “Architecture Books / Yet to… Read more »
Best Laid Plans: Norman Bel Geddes’s Unrealized Projects
“Every new thing is resisted.” —Thomas Edison, 1914 “Think different.” —Apple ad slogan, 1997–2002 “The fairy tales of the past, told to while away an idle hour with mysterious impossibilities,… Read more »
On sale today: The Man Who Designed the Future: Norman Bel Geddes and the Invention of Twentieth-Century America by B. Alexandra Szerlip
Today we publish The Man Who Designed the Future, B. Alexandra Szerlip’s look at the life of design impresario, futurist, and jack-of-many-trades Norman Bel Geddes. By the time of Bel Geddes’s death in… Read more »
Spring book preview: The Man Who Designed the Future by B. Alexandra Szerlip
Next month, we’re excited to be publishing The Man Who Designed the Future, B. Alexandra Szerlip’s look at the life of design impresario, futurist, and jack-of-many-trades Norman Bel Geddes. By the time of… Read more »