Cooper Hewitt says...
Industrial designer, architect, graphic designer, illustrator, writer and entrepreneur, Walter Dorwin Teague is noted as one of the founders of the industrial design profession in the United States. He is also considered an influential figure among the pioneering designers who introduced modernism to America through product and exhibition design as well as writings. Teague was born and raised in Indiana. Influenced by architecture books he read in high school, he decided to become an artist. At the age of nineteen Teague moved to New York, where he studied at the Art Students League and eventually went into commercial illustration, and later, advertising, graphic and package design. After traveling to Europe in 1926, and observing stylistic movements and developments in design there, he returned to New York where he opened his own design consultancy, Walter Dorwin Teague Associates. Utilizing his years of experience and thorough knowledge of marketing and diverse design disciplines, Teague and his firm served a variety of corporate clients, designing cameras for Eastman Kodak, glass for Steuben, radios for Spartan, and a corporate identity program for the oil company, Texaco, among others. Teague’s design legacy and firm, now known simply as Teague and based in Seattle, Washington, continue to this day.
