I have written for several magazines since 1957, including Motor Trend, Road & Track, and Car & Driver. In addition to cars, I have written about design theory, computer-aided design, and ergonomics. I wrote and served as contributing editor of I.D. (originally known as Industrial Design) and Innovation, the journal of IDSA (the Industrial Design Society of America). Most recently, I served as Design Editor of Sports Car International from 2002 until 2008, when it ceased publication.

in 200e, McGraw-Hill published my book on design theory, strategic design, and the practice of industrial design, Watches Tell More than Time: Product Design, Information, and the Quest for Elegance. I am currently writing an updated second edition, portions of which are bound to end up in this blog.

Indeed, the digital screen and the nature of blogging open so many more expressive opportunities than ink on paper that I expect to write about anything and everything I’ve written about—cars, design, aesthetics, ergonomics, computers—and more.

I have practiced, consulted, and taught these topics for as long as I have written about them. I am currently Professor Emeritus of Industrial Design & Ergonomics from San Jose State University, where I taught for 23 years. For 13 years prior to that I chaired the Industrial Design Dept. at Detroit’s College for Creative Studies, which included programs in product, environmental, and graphic design. Most notably, it also housed one of the world’s foremost automotive design programs.

I worked as a designer for Studebaker-Packard, Ford (Advanced Vehicle Concepts Dept.), General Electric (Industrial Design and Human Factors Sub-Section of the Heavy Military Electronic Div.), Herman Miller (Research Div.), and EFP Corp., a Detroit-based electric car startup founded in the 1960s. I was strategic design consultant to Nissan during the late 1970s and early 1980s.