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John Vassos: Industrial Design for Modern Life

What should a television look like? How should a radio dial feel to the touch? This program will discuss industrial designer John Vassos’s contribution to the design of radio and television when they were new. In John Vassos: Industrial Design for Modern Life, Danielle Shapiro is the first to examine the life and work of John Vassos (1898-1985), a Greek émigré and an important industrial designer and Art Deco illustrator who shaped the look and feel of modern technology as Radio Corporation of America’s key consultant designer through the rise of radio and television and into the computer era. More than a half century before the iPod, Vassos recognized the significance of design to make machines user friendly including RCA’s first mass produced television set which had its spectacular premier at the 1939/1940 New York World’s Fair.











When: Tue., Jun. 14, 2016 at 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Where: New York Public Library—Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
476 Fifth Ave.
917-275-6975
Price: Free
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What should a television look like? How should a radio dial feel to the touch? This program will discuss industrial designer John Vassos’s contribution to the design of radio and television when they were new. In John Vassos: Industrial Design for Modern Life, Danielle Shapiro is the first to examine the life and work of John Vassos (1898-1985), a Greek émigré and an important industrial designer and Art Deco illustrator who shaped the look and feel of modern technology as Radio Corporation of America’s key consultant designer through the rise of radio and television and into the computer era. More than a half century before the iPod, Vassos recognized the significance of design to make machines user friendly including RCA’s first mass produced television set which had its spectacular premier at the 1939/1940 New York World’s Fair.

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