01/07/2018
Profile: Allen D. Hawthorne
Loomis Chaffee School (Windsor, CT) 1953
Middlebury College (VT) 1957 BA (Special Major in Arts)
ArtCenter College of Design (Los Angeles) 1961 B Prof'l Arts (Industrial Design)
1957 Gates & Ford, Architecture, Planning -- artist, gen'l assistant
1961 - 1977 Eliot Noyes & Associates, Architecture & Industrial Design, New Canaan, CT -- Design Draftsman, Senior Designer, Associate, Senior Associate
1977-1984 Eliot Noyes Industrial Design, New Canaan, CT -- Design Director
Client included Westinghouse Electric Corp., IBM (Office Products), IBM Instruments, Mobil Oil, Cummins Engine Company, Xerox, General Fireproofing, North American Rockwell, Texas Instruments, Shaw-Walker, Thinking Machines Corp., Aspen Skiing Corp., Pan-Am, Exxon Office Systems, The Singer Company, Ohio Medical Products.
Office equipment, furniture and office systems, industrial robotics, exhibits and trade shows, cabin interiors and cabin service products for corporate and commercial aircraft, movie properties (2001: A Space Odyssey), analytical laboratory instruments, petroleum marketing structures and equipment, architectural illustrations, corporate security dispatch facilities, electric automobiles and public transit vehicles, habitability designs for space vehicles, ski resort trail signage, sewing machines, radiation-security detectors.
1985 - 2001 Allen D. Hawthorne (Owner) -- Industrial Design Consultation, Graphic Design, New Canaan, CT
2001-2013 Allen D. Hawthorne (Owner) -- Industrial Design Consultation, Graphic Design, Digital Photography, Portsmouth, NH
I was an active member of the Industrial Designers Society of America. Awarded several US design patents (assigned to IBM and Mobil Oil). Design (collaboration with Gordon Bruce and others) for IBM pocket dictation equipment is in the Design Collection of the Museum of Modern Art (NYC), as well as Thinking Machines Corp. "Connection Machine" supercomputer (also in the Computer History Museum in California) -- collaboration with Gordon Bruce, Tamiko Thiel, and others. IBM Selectric III typewriter design exhibited in the Pompidou Center (Paris).
