SIA Flashback – SIA Profile of Brooks Stevens

Perhaps Richard Langworth’s tendency toward purple prose in this profile of Brooks Stevens in SIA #71, October 1982, is appropriate, given the picture he paints of the legendary designer: cordial, well-mannered, even elegant. The profile is no biography or compendium of Stevens’s designs (for that, turn to Glenn Adamson’s book, “Industrial Strength Design“), rather a […]

Wally Cohn, Europe’s answer to the boys of the 478th

While some boys out in the Pacific decided to rebody their Jeeps using aircraft drop tanks, Wally Cohn came up with a different approach. Much like Brooks Stevens with the Victory Car, Cohn envisioned a somewhat more refined automobile body to go atop the Jeep four-wheel-drive chassis to create a new offering for the post-war […]