Steven Skov Holt
American design writer, curator and educator (1957–2015) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Steven Skov Holt (September 24, 1957– August 13, 2015) was an American design writer, curator, educator and industrial designer.[1][2][3] He is known for an interdisciplinary practice that posited the ascension of design as the most significant late-20th- and 21st-century form of public art, and more specifically, elaborated its shift toward forms that were more fluid, biomorphic, hybridized, emotional and culturally literate.[4][5][6][7]
Steven Skov Holt | |
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Born | Steven Hamilton Holt (1957-09-24)September 24, 1957 |
Died | August 13, 2015(2015-08-13) (aged 57) San Francisco, California, US |
Education | Stanford University, Brown University |
Known for | Writing, curating, teaching, industrial design |
Spouse | Mara Holt Skov (1997–2015, his death) |
Children | Larson Skov Holt |
Awards | Industrial Designers Society of America |
Website | Steven Skov Holt |
Holt's curatorial projects appeared at museums including the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), San Jose Museum of Art and Museum of Contemporary Craft (Portland).[8][9][2][10] He contributed essays, articles and columns to books and magazines such as ARTnews, ID and Metropolis,[11][12][13] as well as commentary on design trends to The New York Times,[14][15] Los Angeles Times,[16][17] Esquire,[18] and NPR, among others.[19] Holt co-wrote two books, Blobjects & Beyond: The New Fluidity in Design (2005) and Manufractured: The Conspicuous Transformation of Everyday Objects (2008), with his wife, art and design historian Mara Holt Skov.[20][21] He was a professor for more than two decades in the product design and industrial design departments at the Parsons School of Design and California College of the Arts, respectively.[12][22][1] He died in San Francisco on August 13, 2015.[23]