Steven Skov Holt

Steven Skov Holt
Born
Steven Hamilton Holt

(1957-09-24)September 24, 1957
Hartford, Connecticut, US
DiedAugust 13, 2015(2015-08-13) (aged 57)
San Francisco, California, US
EducationStanford University, Brown University
Known forWriting, curating, teaching, industrial design
SpouseMara Holt Skov (1997–2015, his death)
ChildrenLarson Skov Holt
AwardsIndustrial Designers Society of America
WebsiteSteven Skov Holt

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]

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]

  1. ^ a b Rafkin, Louise. "Lives of beauty, grace and shadows: Mara Holt Skov and Steven Skov Holt," San Francisco Chronicle, November 30, 2008. Retrieved April 24, 2023.
  2. ^ a b Gross, Jamie. "Smooth Operators," Surface, April 2005, p. 94.
  3. ^ Yee, Roger. "Kissed by a Frog," Contract Design, June 1996, p. 36–9.
  4. ^ Muschamp, Herbert. "Ideazapoppin': Images Fly at Cooper-Hewitt," The New York Times, March 10, 2000. Retrieved April 24, 2023.
  5. ^ Patton, Phil. "Liquid Solids," Esquire, March 2000, p. 70. Retrieved April 24, 2023.
  6. ^ Lamb, Gregory M. "The 'blobject' comes of age," The Christian Science Monitor, June 17, 2005.
  7. ^ Klausner, Amos. "Blobjects & Beyond—The New Fluidity in Design," Core77, March 2005.
  8. ^ Hales, Linda. "Forms That Put The Fun Back in Function," Washington Post, March 11, 2000. p. C01. Retrieved April 24, 2023.
  9. ^ Moore, Booth. "Walking Hot Rods," Los Angeles Times, July 27, 2000. Retrieved April 24, 2023.
  10. ^ Austin, April. "Co-opting consumerism," The Christian Science Monitor, September 19, 2008.
  11. ^ Holt, Steven Skov and Mara Holt Skov. "Please Don't Be Seated," ARTnews, December 2008, p. 108–13.
  12. ^ a b California College of the Arts. Steven Skov Holt, Faculty. Retrieved April 25, 2023.
  13. ^ McDonough, Michael and Steven Holt. "Fallacy in Wonderland," Metropolis, September 1987.
  14. ^ Kleinfield, N.R. "Industrial Design Comes of Age," The New York Times, March 10, 1985. Retrieved April 24, 2023.
  15. ^ Sorkin, Andrew Ross. "What Goes On? Why You Still Can't Buy A Flaming Pink Computer?" The New York Times, July 17, 1995. Retrieved April 24, 2023.
  16. ^ Mayer, Barbara. "Little Future for Housewares, Appliances," Los Angeles Times, July 27, 1990. Retrieved April 24, 2023.
  17. ^ Keeps, David A. "Shape of things to come," Los Angeles Times, January 4, 2007. Retrieved April 24, 2023.
  18. ^ Patton, Phil. "Blobjects," Esquire, December 1, 1993, p. 48. Retrieved April 24, 2023.
  19. ^ National Public Radio. "New Age of Design," Talk of the Nation, March 20, 2000. Retrieved April 24, 2023.
  20. ^ Wu, Suzanne. "Blobjects and Beyond: The New Fluidity in Design," Wired, July 2005. Retrieved April 25, 2023.
  21. ^ Sarfar, Zahid. "Books, competitions, notes from afar," San Francisco Chronicle, November 26, 2008. Retrieved April 24, 2023.
  22. ^ Read, Mimi. "It's the Table's Turn," New York Newsday, December 31, 1988, p. 21.
  23. ^ Hartford Courant. Steven Holt, 1957–2015, September 6, 2015. Retrieved April 25, 2023.