Full Product Details
Author: John Harwood
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:
Width: 17.80cm
, Height: 3.80cm
, Length: 25.40cm
Weight: 0.907kg
ISBN: 9780816670390
ISBN 10: 0816670390
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 15 November 2011
Audience:
General/trade
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Professional and scholarly
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General
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Professional & Vocational
Replaced By: 9780816674527
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: Awaiting stock
Reviews
"""In this fascinating book, John Harwood shows clearly and convincingly how architects and industrial design consultants calculatedly worked with IBM to shape the public image of the corporation and its products. The Interface is eye-opening. —Henry Petroski, Duke University, author of The Pencil and The Essential Engineer "" ""This is not only a brilliant but a necessary book: design is the future of computing; the IBM design team run by Eliot Noyes was the most important in commercial history, and helped shape not only the industry but the modern world. The book almost couldn’t help being brilliant, given the extraordinary richness and depth of the design team Noyes assembled—a richness never equaled in design history—with Saarinen and Roche, Paul Rand and the Eames Studio plus Noyes himself contributing everything from architecture and graphics to industrial and machine design, films and museum exhibits. Anyone who cares about modern computing, modern design or the future of technology needs this book. —David Gelernter, Yale University """
<p> This is not only a brilliant but a necessary book: design is the future of computing; the IBM design team run by Eliot Noyes was the most important in commercial history, and helped shape not only the industry but the modern world. The book almost couldn't help being brilliant, given the extraordinary richness and depth of the design team Noyes assembled--a richness never equaled in design history--with Saarinen and Roche, Paul Rand and the Eames Studio plus Noyes himself contributing everything from architecture and graphics to industrial and machine design, films and museum exhibits. Anyone who cares about modern computing, modern design or the future of technology needs this book. --David Gelernter, Yale University
This is not only a brilliant but a necessary book: design is the future of computing; the IBM design team run by Eliot Noyes was the most important in commercial history, and helped shape not only the industry but the modern world. The book almost couldn t help being brilliant, given the extraordinary richness and depth of the design team Noyes assembled a richness never equaled in design history with Saarinen and Roche, Paul Rand and the Eames Studio plus Noyes himself contributing everything from architecture and graphics to industrial and machine design, films and museum exhibits. Anyone who cares about modern computing, modern design or the future of technology needs this book. David Gelernter, Yale University
Author Information
John Harwood is associate professor of architecture in the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto.
