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Readings
‘Industrial Strength Design’ offers lush but shaky take on Brooks Stevens
(EXPANDED FROM 12/4/2020) Industrial Strength Design: How Brooks Stevens Shaped Your World, is a relatively old book but it still offers useful insight into one of the more influential independent U.S. auto design consultants of […]
Multimedia
Ed’s Auto Reviews offers a lite but fun take on automotive history
A kind reader recently informed me about Ed’s Auto Reviews. These are relatively short videos on YouTube that cover a broad range of auto history topics. For example, a recently posted episode called “Mistake of […]
Design Notes
1958 Buick: A toothy-grinning failure
The 1958 Buick represented the swan song of head stylist Harley Earl’s drive to turn General Motors cars into chrome-ladden rolling sculpture. The public massively rejected the Buick’s toothy look; production fell to less than a third of […]
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