# George Nelson **Domain:** Design / Furniture / Corporate Modernism **Doc Type:** Design-Lineage Node **Maturity:** Seed **Related:** [[Mid-Century Modernism]], [[Charles and Ray Eames]], [[Human Factors]] --- ## Definition George Nelson (1908–1986) was an American industrial designer and design director whose furniture, storage systems and editorial work helped shape postwar American modernism. ## Corpus Context His systems-oriented domestic objects belong to the [[Mid-Century Design Grammar]] through which technical order became ordinary interior life. ## See Also [[Mid-Century Modernism]], [[Charles and Ray Eames]], [[Human Factors]] ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > “Total design is nothing more or less than a process of relating everything to everything.” > **— George Nelson**, *Herman Miller design director, 1945–1972* [[reminders/Design/Total Design Relates Everything to Everything by George Nelson|Total Design Relates Everything to Everything by George Nelson]] ## Sources / Provenance - [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]]