LEADER 02801nam 2200637 a 450 001 9910789707303321 005 20230725032406.0 010 $a1-4529-4682-5 010 $a0-8166-7849-9 035 $a(CKB)2670000000131337 035 $a(EBL)819526 035 $a(OCoLC)768082776 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000551512 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11348287 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000551512 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10537655 035 $a(PQKB)11060128 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001168449 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC819526 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse29979 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL819526 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10519770 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL525988 035 $a(OCoLC)774293612 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000131337 100 $a20110729d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe interface$b[electronic resource] $eIBM and the transformation of corporate design, 1945/1976 /$fJohn Harwood 210 $aMinneapolis, Minn. $cUniversity of Minnesota Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (296 p.) 225 0 $aA Quadrant book 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8166-7039-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: the interface -- Eliot Noyes, Paul Rand, and the beginnings of the IBM design program -- The architecture of the computer -- IBM architecture : the multinational counterenvironment -- Naturalizing the computer : IBM spectacles -- Conclusion : virtual paradoxes. 330 $aIn February 1956 the president of IBM, Thomas Watson Jr., hired the industrial designer and architect Eliot F. Noyes, charging him with reinventing IBM's corporate image, from stationery and curtains to products such as typewriters and computers and to laboratory and administration buildings. What followed-a story told in full for the first time in John Harwood's The Interface-remade IBM in a way that would also transform the relationships between design, computer science, and corporate culture. IBM's program assembled a cast of leading figures in American design: Noyes, Charles Eames, Paul Ra 410 2$aA Quadrant Book 606 $aCorporations$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aIndustrial design 606 $aModern movement (Architecture)$zUnited States 615 0$aCorporations$xHistory. 615 0$aIndustrial design. 615 0$aModern movement (Architecture) 676 $a338.7/6004097309045 700 $aHarwood$b John$f1977-$01470874 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789707303321 996 $aThe interface$93682949 997 $aUNINA