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Donald Deskey
Donald Deskey American industrial designer Donald Deskey helped establish the field as a profession.

Donald Deskey

American designer
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Donald Deskey (born November 23, 1894, Blue Earth, Minnesota, U.S.—died April 29, 1989, Vero Beach, Florida) was an American industrial designer who helped establish industrial design as a profession. Deskey attended the University of California at Berkeley, the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art (later the San Francisco Art Institute), and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago before studying in Paris in 1920–22. He served as director of the art department at Juniata College,...

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