Word: designer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...producing a highly colored glassware almost indistinguishable from the then secretly prepared Bohemian glass. When Corning Glass Works took over Steuben in 1918, Glassmaker Carder remained as head of the smaller division. Last week in Cincinnati he was presented with the Charles Fergus Binns medal for excellence in design by the American Ceramic Society...
Walter Dorwin Teague has, besides Steuben, Eastman Kodak, Taylor Instrument, National Radiator, A. B. Dick among his clients. An apostle of functionalism in design, Mr. Teague abhors in manner as well as theory esoteric aspects of art. Explained he last week: "The industrial designer . . . does not pluck his designs out of the air, or out of his own soul. His designs are always latent in the things he deals with. . . . He asks himself, what is this thing for? What is it supposed to do? What is it made of? How is it made? . . . If he is a good designer...
...Designer Teague's composite answer for Steuben included glasses decorated with clusters of bubbles, a vase with a formalized parachute design, a graceful, cylindrical cocktail shaker...
...Gotterdammerung, prefacing it then with Siegfried, Die Walkure, Rheingold. Before the music was written Wagner turned out Tristan and Die Meistersinger, operas that he trusted to keep him before the public while the great tetralogy was in its slow making. The Ring's music was written chronologically. Its design is like a symphony with Rheingold corresponding to an introductory first movement; Walkure to a tender andante; Siegfried to a scherzo and Die Gotterdammerung to a great finale. The four operas take 15 hours to give...
...without sex appeal we should design a suit in vivid red materials; red symbolizes love, fervor and fire. Certainly such a costume would give him a more pleasant experience than any emotional stimulus he may benefit from...