HUMANITIES: The Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities

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The Complicated Legacy of Eliot Noyes

A new film revisits the pioneering IBM designer.

Menachem Wecker

HUMANITIES, Spring 2025, Volume 46, Number 2

Noyes outside an IBM building

Noyes’s vision was simple: “Good design is good business.”

—Courtesy the Eliot Noyes family

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Cover Image -- Noyes

Eliot Noyes, pictured here on the television show Omnibus, brought a sculptural grace to his work.

—Courtesy the Eliot Noyes family

Spring 2025

Volume 46, Issue 2

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