High Design vs. Popular Styling, 1940-1965 Summary

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High Design vs. Popular Styling, 1940-1965 Summary

For each reading:

Write two double spaced pages outlining the reading:

what was the main argument? What were some of the finer points?

This does not need to be a formal write up.

Here are two readings (attached):

Jeffrey Meikle, “High Design vs. Popular Styling, 1940-1965,” in Design in the USA (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), 131-159.

Edgar Kaufmann, jr. , What is Modern Design, in The Industrial Design Reader: 146- 151.