Taking pre-orders for my book! A perfect holiday gift for you or your university's library -- John Vassos: Industrial Design for Modern Life

 Check out the preorder page here: http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/john-vassos

As the catalog says: "Danielle Shapiro is the first to examine the life and work of John Vassos, who was the Radio Corporation of America’s key consultant designer through the rise of radio and television and into the computer era. Replete with rich behind-the-product stories of America’s design culture in the 1930s through the 1950s, this volume also chronicles the emergence of what was to become the nation’s largest media company." Oh yeah! Book comes out March 23, 2016.