now that's a toaster

i have been reading a book about one of the 20th century's industrial design icons, Brooks Stevens.

his designs and ideas shaped a great deal of american industrial design of the past 60 years or so, and is stuff affected basically every item in american households of that era. his shop is still in business, run by his son Kipp. they are even hiring.

for a few days i harbored fantasies of snagging a job there in their web and graphics department and spending the summer driving a 1955 Gaylord Grand Prix around the Wisconsin Dells, eating cheese curds and parking on the lake to make out.