Eighty-nine years ago General Motors Chairman Alfred P. Sloan created what must surely have been the world’s first internal corporate design department, the Art & Colour Section, appointing a young Californian, Harley J. Earl, to run it. Earl did that for 31 years, in the process making General Motors the world’s largest industrial enterprise —...
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