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Ferdinand Porsche


Porsche was one of the earliest automobile designers in history, although it is a very common field of work in the current day, a mere hundred years later.  One of his greatest contributions to the automobile field is the invention of the first hybrid vehicles, which run on electric and petroleum for power. Also the picture (below) is Porsche's design of one of  the first sports cars in the world. During World War I Porsche was the managing director of  the company Austro-Daimler, a company that was responsible for much of the wartime machinery.

http://www.unparalled60.com/?p=477

Porsche focused more on the design of sports vehicles and especially racing cars more so than larger sized vehicles. To this day, I think that Porsche's company is more closely associated with sleek sports cars than SUVs or other types of cars.

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=380814&page=319

He created his own firm for automobile design called Porsche. Ferdinand's son also managed a part of the company after he was old enough. They produced goods for the Nazi party during WWII, the most famous of which is the Volkswagen Beetle. The VW Beetle is still produced over 60 years later than this design. Porsche designed many revolutionary automobiles for companies throughout Europe and his legacy lives today as his name holds one of the highest end cars in modern society.

http://www.thelocal.de/money/20091011-22503.html

Works Cited:

Kelly, Prescot. "The Automotive Century: Most Influential People." Auto History Online n. pag. Web. 17 Apr 2011. <http://www.autohistory.org/feature_6.html

Herb Lubalin

Lubalin was an American graphic designer and lived from 1918-1951. The focus of his design was on typefaces and fonts and. He worked at advertising agencies and produced graphic designs mainly for  three magazines: Eros, Fact, and Avante Garde. In 1964 he created his own company for his graphic designs.

http://camberwellillustration.blogspot.com/2009/01/herb-lubalin.html

The typefaces that Lubalin designed, especially Avante Garde, can be found in an average word processing program. I like this particular font and I think that Lubalin's contributions to the field of typography were revolutionary and new because it was not as popular of an art in the 50s and 60s since computers and visual communication did not receive nearly as much attention as they do now. People such as Lubalin changed the face of fields such as typography.

http://jodie13.wordpress.com/2009/05/13/herb-lubalin/

Works Cited:
Brown, David R. "Herb Lubalin — AIGA | the Professional Association for Design." AIGA | the Professional Association for Design. 1981. Web. 17 Apr. 2011. <http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/medalist-herblubalin

Harry Bertoia

Bertoia is an Italian sculptor and furniture designer. He studied art and design at three different schools in America during his youth. In 1936 he taught metal work but after the war transitioned into designing furniture and sculptures. Bertoia spent most of his life in America although he spent his childhood in Italy. His signature creations are furniture pieces created with wire, which probably is because of his background in jewelry design.

http://thefurryfighter.blogspot.com/2008/04/under-weather.html

His most famous furniture is called the Diamond Chair which is made of metal wires (above). He also designed Side Chair which implements his famous wireframe into a more traditionally shaped chair.

http://www.kaboodle.com/reviews/harry-bertoia-side-chair

Works Cited:

"Designer." Knoll. Web. 18 Apr. 2011. <http://www.knoll.com/designer/designer_detail.jsp?designer_id=22