Word: designing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...taken great pains to integrate the bridge with Harvard. It proposed to the Legislature that it be dedicated to Charles W. Eliot, 1853, president of the University between 1869 and 1909, and the Commission had its architects stress the Harvard motif throughout the design. The facing of the bridge will be done in expensive fancy brickwork and granite in imitation of the Houses; the four gates to the MDC garages under the abutments will be of wrought iron copied from the gates to the Yard; and on the face of each main pier will appear gothic capital...
...declared that "so long as we do not ask the college students to go about in period clothes, it seems absurd to build college buildings in pseudo-period design...
...display, arranged by the Department of Landscape Architecture of the School of the Design, contains over 75 exhibits done by former and present students...
...friend's home, he met Britain's Sigmund Gestetner, maker of a famed old duplicating machine whose design had not been appreciably changed in 30 years. Loewy lugged the duplicator up to his apartment and built a clay model embodying his ideas. Gestetner liked it so well that he paid Loewy $2,000 for it and used the same design for 15 years afterward. (Gestetner paid him a yearly retainer not to design for any competitor.) Overnight, Fashion Artist Loewy decided to become an industrial designer...
...Transportation. Loewy quickly found out that industrial design was not easy: it was "25% inspiration and 75% transportation." He lugged briefcases of designs from one manufacturer to another around the U.S., barely sold enough to keep body and penthouse together for his first wife, Nebraska-born Jean Thomson. (Divorced in 1945, they parted "the best of friends," and she still has a 4% interest in his company...