Tag 1930s

August 5, 2011
in American History, Humanities

Tomorrow’s Modern Design of the World’s Fairs

August 5, 2011
in American History, Humanities

Everything can be modernized: this is an idea that came close to being a “dogma” in the 1930s. Architecture, businesses, and infrastructure could progress, but so could corporate branding, family life, and even the human body. The push to advance socially and technologically is familiar today, but it had a

November 16, 2010
in American History, Humanities

Tuesday Studio: Designing Tomorrow

November 16, 2010
in American History, Humanities

While the Great Depression has been a heavily referenced subject, almost exclusively in its negative sense, it’s worth considering the aesthetic aspects of the period that appeared and endured alongside, or in spite of, worldwide economic restraints. At a time when the United States had emerged as a world power