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Phil Patton

3.7/5 ( ratings)
Phil Patton is a contributing editor at Departures, Esquire, and I.D., a contributing writer at Wired and an automotive design writer for The New York Times. Phil was a regular contributor to The New York Times Home and Garden section and, in 1998, originated the "Public Eye" column. He has written many books including: Made in USA: The Secret Histories of the Things That Made America , which was named a New York Times notable book of the year; Bug: The Strange Mutations of the World's Most Famous Automobile ; Michael Graves Designs: The Art of the Everyday Object ; and Dreamland: Travels Inside the Secret World of Roswell and Area 51 . He has also written for Art in America, ARTnews, Connoisseur, Geo, Harper's Bazaar, Men's Journal, The New Republic, New York Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, Rolling Stone, Smithsonian, Travel + Leisure, Traveler, The Village Voice and Vogue. Phil was the Editorial Consultant on the Guggenheim Museum's "Motorcycle" show in 1998 and Consulting Curator for the "Different Roads" exhibition at MoMA in 1999. In 2000 he was consultant and contributor for "On the Job: Design and the American Office" at the National Building Museum in Washington.

Phil Patton

3.7/5 ( ratings)
Phil Patton is a contributing editor at Departures, Esquire, and I.D., a contributing writer at Wired and an automotive design writer for The New York Times. Phil was a regular contributor to The New York Times Home and Garden section and, in 1998, originated the "Public Eye" column. He has written many books including: Made in USA: The Secret Histories of the Things That Made America , which was named a New York Times notable book of the year; Bug: The Strange Mutations of the World's Most Famous Automobile ; Michael Graves Designs: The Art of the Everyday Object ; and Dreamland: Travels Inside the Secret World of Roswell and Area 51 . He has also written for Art in America, ARTnews, Connoisseur, Geo, Harper's Bazaar, Men's Journal, The New Republic, New York Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, Rolling Stone, Smithsonian, Travel + Leisure, Traveler, The Village Voice and Vogue. Phil was the Editorial Consultant on the Guggenheim Museum's "Motorcycle" show in 1998 and Consulting Curator for the "Different Roads" exhibition at MoMA in 1999. In 2000 he was consultant and contributor for "On the Job: Design and the American Office" at the National Building Museum in Washington.

Books from Phil Patton

Dreamland: Travels Inside the Secret World of Roswell and Area 51

3.4/5 ( ratings)

Roadside America: Architectural Relics from a Vanishing Past

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Bug: The Strange Mutations of the World's Most Famous Automobile

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Open Road: A Celebration of the American Highway

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Safe: Design Takes on Risk

4/5 ( ratings)

Top This and Other Parables of Design: Selected Writings by Phil Patton

4/5 ( ratings)

20th Century Classic Cars: 100 Years of Automotive Ads, 1900-1999

4/5 ( ratings)

Blobjects and Beyond: The New Fluidity in Design

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Glamour: Fashion, Industrial Design, Architecture

3/5 ( ratings)

Michael Graves Designs: The Art of the Everday Object

3.3/5 ( ratings)

Cars, Culture, and the City

3.3/5 ( ratings)

Made in U.S.A.

3.3/5 ( ratings)

Roadside America Publisher: Taschen

3.3/5 ( ratings)

Voyager

3.3/5 ( ratings)
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