If you’re involved in any facet of the car hobby and have never heard of Brooks Stevens, you should probably take up golf.
Stevens was an iconic American industrial designer whose career spanned 60 years. He studied architecture at Cornell University. In 1944, Stevens, Raymond Loewy and several other colleagues founded the Industrial Designers Society of America. Stevens’ interests ran the gamut and he generated thousands of designs for domestic and industrial applications. It was Stevens who gave us the wide-mouthed peanut butter jar, the “see inside” window on the front of the clothes dryer, as well as the beloved Oscar Mayer Wienermobile. By the early ’50s it’s estimated that the sale of Stevens’ gizmos, gadgets and designs were responsible for more than one billion dollars in revenue.
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