Before Glenn Curtiss (1878-1930) turned to aviation, he was one of the first to design motorcycles that significantly improved on their bicycle heritage. An avid cyclist and racer, he ran a small manufacturing and retail shop in NY in the late 1890s. #EarlyAmericanMotorcycles
This tweet was posted on March 19, 2021.
Before becoming a photojournalist, Dickey Chapelle (on rt: http://t.co/nRaa9d5n) studied aeronautical design at MIT when she was 16!
This tweet was posted on July 05, 2012.
By the 1960s, #KLM also offered the houses as ashtrays, which were cleverly designed to allow the cigarette smoke to billow out the house’s chimney. Since then, the Holland-based ceramics manufacturer #Delftware has produced one hundred and two Delft Blue buildings.
This tweet was posted on October 07, 2022.
By the late 1920s, Westinghouse began producing single Micarta props that could be attached to a two-bladed metal hub. The hub was designed to be pitch-adjustable on the ground #EnduranceEngines
This tweet was posted on February 21, 2023.
By the late 1930s, toasters were redesigned with clean, curved housings. The Toast-O-Lator was designed with a smooth housing, speed lines, and an aircraft-like viewing window that allowed the user to see the conveyor-belt toasting mechanism at work. #StreamlinesAesthetics
This tweet was posted on March 26, 2019.
CLOSING IN TWO DAYS!! Come work for SFO Museum! We're hiring a part-time #digital #design production assistant to assist with web, video, and technology projects. Learn more: https://t.co/Wk7Wwe0KDO #musejobs #musetech
This tweet was posted on May 30, 2018.
California Arts & Architecture began in 1929 as a magazine for residential design featuring a wide range of styles. When it declared bankruptcy in 1938, the magazine was purchased by John Entenza who transformed it into a modernist haven for design. #CaliforniaModernistWomen
This tweet was posted on April 12, 2023.
California College of the Arts’ (CCA) Master of Fine Arts (MFA) design student Celia Ziyan Cai’s project for the class, Machinic Modernity, "Constitution," reflects identity in today’s digital-oriented society. #StudentArt #CeliaZiyanCai
This tweet was posted on March 06, 2023.
Cats: always a solid design choice! Detail of the closing week poster by David Singer for Bill… http://t.co/XjRzVFIq4j
This tweet was posted on August 12, 2014.
Christopher Dresser (1834–1904) realized a future in which high-quality design could merge with machine production. He enjoyed a prolific career, designing everything from wallpaper to furniture, metalwork, ceramics, and textiles. #victorianpaperedwall #wallpaper
This tweet was posted on July 27, 2022.
Come work with us! We're hiring a part-time Digital Design Production Assistant to help with a variety of web, video, and tech projects. #museumjobs #musejobs #musetech Learn more: https://t.co/o4PVMM5x3W
This tweet was posted on June 11, 2018.
Completed in the 1940s, Ames’ first wind tunnels included several with supersonic testing capabilities and a gigantic complex to research full-scale aircraft designs. #NASAAmesWind
This tweet was posted on April 05, 2023.
Construction of a new terminal (now Terminal 2) at @flysfo began #onthsiday in 1951. Designed in the International Style, the 7-story building employed an innovative, dual-level layout that separated departures from arrivals. Have you ever flown out of Terminal 2? #MuseumFromHome
This tweet was posted on October 05, 2020.
Construction of a new terminal at San Francisco Airport began in 1951. Designed in the International Style, the seven-story building employed an innovative, dual-level layout that separated departures from arrivals. #SFOHistory #avgeek
This tweet was posted on February 23, 2022.
Contemporary huipil design in Oxchuc includes more complex embroidery, with additional detail added to vertical woven stripes and around the sleeves. #EmpoweringThreads
This tweet was posted on January 11, 2018.
Contemporary piña is often combined with other fibers, primarily silk (piña seda). In addition to embroidery, fabric may instead have painted or printed designs. #PineappletoPina #piña
This tweet was posted on September 13, 2022.
Continental's service mark featured an aerodynamic oval with jet contrails designed to communicate the carrier’s new global services. Over the next 20 years, “Contrails Red” became the predominant color, while the symbol also appeared in gold, black, and white. #AirlineMealSets
This tweet was posted on June 21, 2023.
Created by the French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent, the mid-1980s Qantas flight attendant uniforms consisted of a dress or blouse with a colorful blue, red, yellow, and brown print on white incorporating a newly updated kangaroo logo.
This tweet was posted on January 02, 2019.
Cuban-born designer Adolfo Sardiña (b. 1933) established his own New York salon in 1963. His uniform program for Pan American’s 6,800 flight attendants in 1980 has #Adolfo’s “romantic look” of simple, elegant design. #avgeek
This tweet was posted on June 19, 2019.
Decorative combs were essential #fashion accessories and in the late 19th century, designers quickly… http://t.co/yEdkinKXjq
This tweet was posted on September 05, 2013.
Deemed too complicated and expensive to operate, its design was changed to a smaller, unpressurized airliner with a single tail, which became the DC-4. #WingWednesday #AvGeek
This tweet was posted on April 07, 2021.
Demand quickly surpassed supply, and with manufacturing equipment designed by her husband Brian Heath, the couple made simple and elegant housewares and tiles at their eponymous factory in Sausalito, CA, for over fifty years. #EdithHeath
#CaliforniaModernistWomen
This tweet was posted on August 24, 2022.
Design is underway for our first exhibit of 2014 (though there are three more to install before the… http://t.co/E8TLIvNvQB
This tweet was posted on December 09, 2013.
Designated "Star Stream" by TWA, the 707 proved to be a fast, reliable, intercontinental and transcontinental workhorse and was operated by the airline until the early 1980s. #AviationEvolutions #avgeek
This tweet was posted on January 24, 2018.
Designed by Alexander Calder, Braniff introduced "The Flying Colors of the US" to commemorate the US Bicentennial.
This tweet was posted on July 07, 2016.
Designed by Jean-Julien Deltil (1791–1863), Zuber introduced “Les Vues d’Amérique du Nord (Views of North America),” in 1834. It requires 1,690 printing blocks, 223 colors, and thirty-two lengths totaling forty-nine feet. #ZuberScenicWallpaper
This tweet was posted on December 27, 2019.
Designed by Louis Blériot and Raymond Saulnier, the Blériot XI monoplane took off on its maiden flight #onthisday in 1909. In 1911, Earle Lewis Ovington carried the first U.S. airmail in a Blériot XI. #avgeek #BlériotXI
This tweet was posted on January 23, 2023.
Designed by Wellwood E. Beall, it distinguished itself by shear size, three vertical stabilizers in the tail, and cantilevered seawings that doubled as fuel tanks. #WingWednesday #avgeek #PanAm
This tweet was posted on March 17, 2021.