John Plato Vassacopoulos (1898-10-23)23 October 1898 Sulina, Romania
Died
7 December 1985(1985-12-07) (aged 87) Norwalk, Connecticut
Occupation
Author, industrial designer
Nationality
Greek
Genre
Industrial Design
Notable works
ContempoPhobia Perey Turnstile, RCA TRK12 television, RCA Victor Special phonograph, RCA 9YJ 45rpm phonograph
Spouse
Ruth Vassos
Military career
Allegiance
United States
Service/branch
United States Army
Years of service
1940–1945
Rank
Colonel
Commands held
Office of Strategic Services - OSS
Battles/wars
Second World War Mediterranean Theater of Operations
Awards
Gold Cross of the Order of the Phoenix (Greece)
John Vassos (born John Plato Vassacopoulos; 23 October 1898 – 6 December 1985) whose career as an American industrial designer and artist helped define the shape of radio, television, broadcasting equipment, and computers for the Radio Corporation of America for almost four decades. He is best known for both his art deco illustrated books and iconic turnstile for the Perey company, as well as modern radios, broadcast equipment, and televisions for RCA. He was a founder of the Industrial Designers Society of America, in 1965, serving as its first chairman simultaneously with Henry Dreyfuss as its president. Vassos' design philosophy was to make products that were functional for the user.
A decorated veteran of World War II, Vassos was chief of the OSS "Spy School" in Cairo, Egypt from 1942 to 1945.[1]
^Hueck Allen, Susan (2013), "11", Classical Spies: American Archaeologists with the OSS in World War II Greece, Ann Arbor, Michigan: The University of Michigan, p. 204, ISBN 978-0472117697
president. Vassos' design philosophy was to make products that were functional for the user. A decorated veteran of World War II, Vassos was chief of...
designer and artist Timoleon Vassos (1836–1929), Greek Army officer and general Vassos Alexander, British sports reporter Vassos Karageorghis (born 1929)...
(1930-11-16). "Vassos Fantasy Highly Creative". Detroit Free Press. p. 52. Retrieved 2020-09-23 – via Newspapers.com. Vassos, John; Vassos, Ruth (1930)...
Industrial Revolution. In the 1931 book Phobia by designer and artist JohnVassos, mechanophobia is referred to as an affliction of the sexual incompetent...
joint venture between Story & Clark and RCA. The case was designed by JohnVassos, the American industrial designer. It debuted at the 1939 World's Fair...
Richmond and Garden Island Dockyard. In the United States, artists like JohnVassos took a certificate course in military and industrial camouflage at the...
Fortune magazine. Bourke-White worked in a 61st-floor studio designed by JohnVassos until she was evicted in 1934. In 1934, Bourke-White's partner Oscar...
Chair. Other influential designers included Henry Dreyfuss, Eliot Noyes, JohnVassos, and Russel Wright. Dieter Rams is a German industrial designer closely...
Victor M Special, a polished aluminum portable record player designed by JohnVassos that has become an icon of 1930s American industrial design. In 1949...
electronic data processing system". It was designed by industrial designer JohnVassos, who employed a modular design strategy, framing the computer and its...
Institute (ADI), which was the predecessor of IDI. Its first chairman was JohnVassos and its first president was Henry Dreyfuss. The society publishes a quarterly...
MoMa. January 1987. "A feeling for the machine - JohnVassos, MOMA, and Technology Design". JohnVassos: Industrial Design for Modern Life. 18 October 2016...
Schoen, where the American Society for Aesthetics was founded. Along with JohnVassos, Kostellow worked to formalize the industrial design program at Pratt...
Escaped Cock by D. H. Lawrence, signed by the author and dedicated "To JohnVassos", for USD$2,500. The Black Sun Press published the following works. 1927...
II Spy School Vassos, John, Maj.: Chief Training Officer for the Middle East Theatre for the OSS' "Spy School," 1944–1945 Vassos, John, Maj.: "The Training...
newly-formed American intelligence service. Their commanding officer was Major JohnVassos, RCA's well-known industrial designer. Prospective agents were trained...
Vassos Karageorghis, A Lifetime in the Archaeology of Cyprus, Medelhavsmuseet, 2007". Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes. 39 (1): 449–452. "Vassos...
events with BT who covered every evening session in the tournament. John Rawling, Vassos Alexander, Tony Green and George Riley provided the commentary for...
Andriza Mircovich and Christopher Mircovich's surviving siblings, Vasso and Maria, met with John Gregovich on May 10, 1911. Gregovich, who also went by the surname...
John Zachary Young FRS (18 March 1907 – 4 July 1997), generally known as "JZ" or "JZY", was an English zoologist and neurophysiologist, described as "one...
commonly cited as destroyed at the end of the LC IIC, but the excavator, Vassos Karageorghis, made it expressly clear that it was not destroyed stating...
Sport & Channel 4 alongside Jim Proudfoot, Paul Nicholson, Chris Mason, Vassos Alexander and Tony Green. Rawling has written for a number of UK Newspapers...
Global Information
Greek
United States
United States Army
Gold Cross of the Order of the Phoenix (Greece)