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When visitors to the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC, walk through the Skylab of 1967 - 73, America's first space station, they experience the interior space of that vehicle, but they learn nothing about the industrial design of the spacecraft's interior or about the designers who created it. John Frassanito was one of those industrial designers who worked in Raymond Loewy's office on that spacecraft. Frassanito, who graduated in industrial design from the Art Center in Los Angeles (now the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena) in 1968, worked with Loewy's New York office in 1968/69 in the early design phases of Skylab. In 1969, Frassanito co-founded Datapoint Corporation where he designed the Datapoint 2000, heralded in Invention and Technology, fall 1994, as the forerunner of the personal computer of today. In 1975 Frassanito formed his own industrial-design firm of John Frassanito & Associates, a Houston-based firm that has worked behind the scenes as one of the major industrial designers of concept spacecraft for NASA. Highlights of this work soon to become a reality include his computer-generated representations of the International Space Station, the X-33, the prototype for the Venture Star, the Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV) being built by Lockheed-Martin, and proposals for future Lunar and Mars missions. His firm has developed a specialty in these realistically modeled computer-generated images of space subjects for the aerospace industry which have found their way into numerous journals and magazines as well. This monograph introduces Frassanito's career and work to design aficionados and also surveys his latest images for space vehicles and habitations for the near future.
Show moreWhen visitors to the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC, walk through the Skylab of 1967 - 73, America's first space station, they experience the interior space of that vehicle, but they learn nothing about the industrial design of the spacecraft's interior or about the designers who created it. John Frassanito was one of those industrial designers who worked in Raymond Loewy's office on that spacecraft. Frassanito, who graduated in industrial design from the Art Center in Los Angeles (now the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena) in 1968, worked with Loewy's New York office in 1968/69 in the early design phases of Skylab. In 1969, Frassanito co-founded Datapoint Corporation where he designed the Datapoint 2000, heralded in Invention and Technology, fall 1994, as the forerunner of the personal computer of today. In 1975 Frassanito formed his own industrial-design firm of John Frassanito & Associates, a Houston-based firm that has worked behind the scenes as one of the major industrial designers of concept spacecraft for NASA. Highlights of this work soon to become a reality include his computer-generated representations of the International Space Station, the X-33, the prototype for the Venture Star, the Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV) being built by Lockheed-Martin, and proposals for future Lunar and Mars missions. His firm has developed a specialty in these realistically modeled computer-generated images of space subjects for the aerospace industry which have found their way into numerous journals and magazines as well. This monograph introduces Frassanito's career and work to design aficionados and also surveys his latest images for space vehicles and habitations for the near future.
Show moreJohn Zukowsky earned his doctorate in art and architectural history from the State University of New York at Binghamton. For 25 years he was the curator of architecture at The Art Institute of Chicago, organizing architecture and design exhibitions. In 2005 he became the chief curator of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York.
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