4 collections related to Industrial design

The Bill Baron Papers contain design sketches, photographs, architectural drawings, correspondence, and slides that relate to some of the graphic design, industrial design, and landscape architecture work that Bill Baron completed in the 1960s while he was a professor at the North Carolina State University School (now College) of Design. Work that is particulary well documented is Baron's design of the Tallywood Shopping Center sign and canopy in Fayetteville, and his design of the Aqua-Aid flotation device. The papers also relate to Baron's work on such notable projects as the North Carolina State Capital Plan, the Fayetteville Market Square, and the Whispering Pines Village. Baron worked on the Tallywood Shopping Center with landscape architect Richard Bell and architects MacMillan and MacMillan; on the North Carolina State Capital Plan with landscape architect Lewis Clarke; and on the Market Square development and Whispering Pines Village with landscape architect Richard Moore. Bill Baron was born in Chicago and studied Industrial Design at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. Baron taught Industrial Design at North Carolina State University's School (now College) of Design in the 1960s, when the school was led by Dean Henry Kamphoefner. Baron is nationally recognized for his art, which has been displayed at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and at the North Carolina Museum of Art. He is also an award-winning editorial cartoonist. Baron worked in New York City for 25 years, in a career devoted to product design, invention, and marketing. Less

The Raymond Loewy Lithographs and Seriograph includes seven 21" x 28" lithographs and one 21" x 28" seriograph in a portfolio plus one 18" x 29" lithograph in a separate flat folder. The drawings are of space vehicles and trains. Raymond Loewy was a twentieth century industrial designer whose firm Raymond Loewy Associates worked on many highly visible campaigns for Coca-Cola, Lucky Strike, Studebaker, Exxon, and more. Less

Records of Ross Associates, Inc., including discussions of individual plant background, history of manufacturing (including equipment and design), plant management, and standards of manufacturing; standardization of work flow, design of work flow, determination of the conditions under which each operation should take place, finances, costs; and discussion of the history of individual companies; drawings and plans for new as well as redesigned plants; electronic files on diskette both of architectural and financial data. Also found in these records are published and unpublished articles, correspondence, manuals, and the Ross Report files. The corporate letterhead of Ross Associates, Inc. reads: Ross Associates, Incorporated. Consulting Managment Engineers. Less