In Michael Graves Designs: The Art of the Everyday Object, author Phil Patton surveys this fascinating career in design and retail, from kitchen accessories for Alessi to hotels and household objects for Disney, crystal bowls for Steuben, boutiques and packaging for Lenox and more.

In September 2015 the world lost Phil Patton--prolific design writer, teacher and tantalizing wordsmith. Patton's insatiable curiosity, sense of humor and keen eye made for the most compelling reads. Whether he was chronicling design minutia, quirky anecdotes or bizarre tales, Phil's hundreds of books, columns, articles and posts always ...

Welcome to the website of author, writer, museum curator, and educator Phil Patton (1952-2015), whose work was particularly influential in the design community. His papers are now housed at the Milton Glaser Design Study Center and Archives of the School for Visual Arts in New York, where he enthusiastically taught in the DCRIT program (now the ...

Mar 24, 2016 · Punctuated by images of ideas and lists from notebooks he carried everywhere, Top This and Other Parables of Design is an intimate and portable companion for those who choose to always have a witty, informed friend around. Phil Patton (1952–2015) was a design journalist, curator, and author

Some of his best work, chosen by colleagues and editors, were excerpted in Top This and Other Parables of Design: Selected Writings by Phil Patton, published by the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum and still available in its store.

Top This and Other Parables of Design: Selected Writings by Phil Patton In September 2015 the world lost Phil Patton — prolific design writer, teacher and tantalizing wordsmith. Patton’s insatiable curiosity, sense of humor and keen eye made for the most compelling reads.

Get this from a library! Blobjects & beyond : the new fluidity in design. [Steven Holt; Mara Holt Skov; San Jose Museum of Art.] -- 'Blobjects and Beyond' is a survey & critical review of new designs in all categories which celebrate & explore amorphic, organic, protoplasmic & …

Sell the cookstove if necessary, but come to the fair’. Phil Patton, Smithsonian, 24(3), pp 38 – 50. June 1993. TESLA: Life and legacy, War of the Currents. Pbs.org, n.d. This socialite hated washing dishes so much that she invented the automated dishwasher.

Jul 14, 2005 · "A manifesto for fluidity across disciplines, cultures, and international boundaries, Blobjects & Beyond documents the first major design language to bridge the last millennium with the new...