This section includes any relevant news related to design history. Exhibits/shows gives a listing of current or upcoming venues of interest.

Know of anything going on in your area? Let us know and we'll spread the word. The following are a recent design history publications that may be of interest.

Recent Publications

Design Chronicles: Significant Mass-Producced Designs of the 20th Century
By Carroll Gantz, FIDSA
Edited by Vicki Matranga
Published August 2005 by Schiffer Publications, Ltd. $79.95, Hard cover, 280 pages, 9" X 12" with 500+illustrations and 220+ biographies. Excellent design history textbook with double-page spread for each year, and narrative summaries for each decade. Autographed copies available from author for $72 including shipping and handling. 817 Treeloft Trace, Seabrook Island, SC 29455, 843-768-3780, carrgantz@bellsouth.net.

The Fisher Body Craftsman Guild: An Illustrated History
By John L. Jacobus,10103 Gates Avenue, Silver Spring, Maryland.
To be published Spring 2005 by McFarland and Company, Inc.
Box 611, Jefferson, North Carolina.
Includes over 200 illustrations of the entry models made from the 1920's to the 1960's in this GM sponsored annual contest for youngsters to win college scholarships. Contestants included many who became well-known automotive designers, including, Virgil Exner, Chuck Jordan, Ron Hill, Chuck Pelly, and many others. Advance copies may be ordered via the author.

Industrial Strength Design-How Brooks Stevens Shaped Your World
Edited by Glenn Adamson of the Milwaukee Art Museum
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Published in 2003 by the Museum and the MIT Press.
Book published in conjunction with the exhibit of the same name at the Milwaukee Art Institute (see exhibits/shows) Hard cover, 219 pages, profusely illustrated and a definitive history of Brooks Stevens, his clients and his office. $25.

The Alliance of Art and Industry-Toledo Designs for a Modern America
Toledo Museum of Art, Box 1013, Toledo, Ohio.
Published in 2002.
The book was published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name in 2002. 234 pages, outstandingly illustrated, and covering the early industrial designs for Toledo Scale, Libby-Owens Ford, Willys Overland (think Jeep) and DeVilbiss by well-known industrial designers.