Phil Patton

As book author Patton authored or contributed to more than 30 books and exhibit catalogs, most notably:

Razzle Dazzle: The Curious Marriage of Television and Professional Football, The Dial Press, 1984 Open Road: A Celebration of the American Highway, Simon & Schuster, 1986

As speaker A frequent speaker at museums and design conferences, Patton often served as nominator and juror for programs including the Chrysler Design Award and EyesOn Design. He spoke and presented at the International Design Conference in Aspen; the Industrial Designers Society of America International Conference; ACD Living Surfaces; Knoll Cranbrook Design Conferences; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Wolfsonian-FIU museum in Miami; Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.

He was a regular commentator on CBS News and helped develop and appeared on a number of television series, notably Divided Highways, on the Interstate highway system (PBS); The Autobahn (History Channel, 2000).

Other Patton wrote catalogs and essays for exhibitions at museums around the United States, including Surrounding Interiors: Views Inside the Car at the Davis Museum and Cultural Center of Wellesley College as well as at the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota (2002–2003); Glamour: Fashion, Industrial Design, Architecture at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2004); SAFE: Design Takes On Risk at the Museum of Modern Art (2005); Curves of Steel: Streamlined Automobile Design at the Phoenix Art Museum (2007); and On the Job: Design and the American Office at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. (2018).

He served as editorial consultant for The Art of the Motorcycle at the Solomon R. Guggeheim Museum (1998); curatorial consultant for Different Roads: Automobiles for the Next Century at the Museum of Modern Art (1999); and consultant for Blobjects and Beyond: The New Fluidity in Design at the San Jose Museum of Art (2005).