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Pulos, Arthur Jon was born on February 3, 1917 in Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of John and Argyro (Tsakalos) Palukakos.
( The American Design Adventure continues the detailed ex...)
The American Design Adventure continues the detailed examination of industrial design begun by Arthur Pulos in American Design Ethic. In that first volume he discussed and illustrated America's objects and artifacts, major designers, and schools of design from colonial times to 1940. This second splendidly illustrated volume carries the story into one of the most influential and exciting eras of American industrial design, the 1940s to the 1970s.Arthur J. Pulos is Chairman Emeritus of the Department of Design at Syracuse University; President of Pulos Design Associates, past president, board chairman, and fellow of the Industrial Designers Society of America; and past president and now senator of the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design.
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This first history of American products and the philosophy behind their design, use, and manufacture points to the process - the interaction between industrial technology and culture - that gave form to an American "ethic" in material products and helped shape the life style of its citizens.
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Pulos, Arthur Jon was born on February 3, 1917 in Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of John and Argyro (Tsakalos) Palukakos.
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1939. Master of Fine Arts, University Oregon, 1943.
Teaching assistant design and crafts, U. Oregon at Eugene, 1939-1941;
associate professor design, University of Illinois, 1946-1955;
professor, department chairman design, Syracuse (New York) U., 1955-1982;
professor emeritus, Syracuse (New York) U., since 1982;
president, Pulos Design Associates, Syracuse, 1958-1987. Member planning council Expo 67, Montreal, Canada, Federal Design Assembly, 1974, American Design Bicentennial, 1974-1975. Member policy panel for architecture, planning and design National Endowment for Arts, since 1978.
Consultant Colonial Williamsburg. Lecturer in, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, Romania, Pakistan, Japan Ministry of International Trade and Industry, others for United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, United States Information Agency.
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Board directors Everson Museum Art, Syracuse, since 1983. Member Budapest Cultural Forum, 1985. Served to 1st lieutenant United States Air Force, 1944-1946.
Fellow Industrial Design Society of America (president 1973-1974. Distinguished Educator award 1988), International Council Societies Industrial Design (president 1980-1981, senator since 1982, keynote speaker ICSID Congress in Japan 1989), American Steel Institute (juror, consultant), Design Institute Australia (honorary), Mexican Academy Design (honorary) Japan Design Federation International Competition (chairman Jury, Osaka 1983), Alpha Rho Chi, Alpha Zi Alpha.
Married Elizabeth Jane McQueen, January 28, 1944. Children– Cristofer, Maria, Demetra.