payeco t1_irrjfph wrote on October 10, 2022 at 2:30 PM

I have no idea why this thought popped into my head but I wonder if it would be possible, 40+ years later, to track down whatever artist GE commissioned to create this generic art for the side of this toaster? Like, do those records still exist somewhere deep inside GE?

SmellingSpace t1_irrp6qj wrote on October 10, 2022 at 3:10 PM

I’m sure a company as large as GE has in-house designers and aren’t commissioning a drawing of some wheat.

payeco t1_irrpvqq wrote on October 10, 2022 at 3:15 PM

That wasn’t really my point. A person at some point had to create this. Has who that person is been lost to the wheel of time? If someone really wanted to know who it is, is it even possible to find out?

SmellingSpace t1_irrq9x8 wrote on October 10, 2022 at 3:18 PM

Well it was probably a whole design team, not a single person. Unless GE kept the project plan for this toaster there’s probably no answer to your question. The entire team might be dead :)

siler7 t1_irun4wx wrote on October 11, 2022 at 4:01 AM

You're just full of unhelpfulness.

THEY REALIZE IT MIGHT NOT BE EASY.

SmellingSpace t1_irvu0kn wrote on October 11, 2022 at 12:55 PM

Haha well you could ask their question about every thing made ever and the answer is usually going to be boring: “a team of average to above average people in the company designed it and another team manufactured it or they outsourced the manufacturing.”