Norman Bel Geddes b. 1893

  • Designer (Industrial / Product Designer)
Norman Bel Geddes, b.1893, was an industrial designer who designed automobiles and other products. Notably, Bel Geddes designed a corporate emblem for General Motors Holden (in the Powerhouse Museum collection) that was later adapted for the General Motors-Holden logo.

Industrial designer Norman Bel Geddes was born in 1893.

Bel Geddes worked for the Graham-Page company designing streamlined car prototypes. He was later hired by Chrysler to help promote their Chrysler Airflow (1934).

Notably, Bel Geddes designed General Motors’ Futurama pavilion at the 1939 New York World’s fair.

Geddes died in 1958. His work is represented in the collection of the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, NSW

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2012
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2012