About C. Stowe Myers

US industrial designer who was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania in 1906, and received a BA in architecture from the University of Pennsylvania in 1930. Norman Bel Geddes hired him in 1932 to create all the line drawings for Geddes first book, Horizons, published later that year. He also did design work on some of Geddes accounts at that time.  He joined Walter Dorwin Teague in 1934, was named a partner in 1945, and headed Teague's Los Angeles office until it closed in 1949.  Notable accomplishments with Teague include the Kodak Building and exhibits at the New York World’s Fair of 1939-40 and wartime accounts, such as the gun director and the gun port seal. In 1945, the Naval Ordnance Development Award was received for the latter project and development of Navy ordnance pamphlets.    

In 1950, he was recruited by Raymond Loewy to join his New York staff and in 1952, he went on to manage Loewy’s Chicago office.  From 1954 to 1971, he headed Stowe Myers Industrial Design in Evanston, Illinois.  and received the prestigious Italian Triannale di Milano (11th) in 1957 for a multi-use table design. More of his awards are covered in the Industrial Design Gallery.  After providing consultation to a number of Chicago industrial design firms, he retired in 1974 and continued his avocation of landscape painting.