Donald
Donald Dohner was a pioneer industrial designer in the late 1920's. He studied at the John Herron Art Institute in Indianapolis, the Academy of Fine Arts and the Chicago Art Institute. He relocated to Pittsburgh to study set design at Carnegie Mellon and ended up teaching Industrial Arts in the Pittsburgh school system. He worked for Westinghouse during the late 1920s and became Director of Art in their Heavy Industry Division in 1929 working on locomotives and other larger equipment. He developed the first industrial design degree program at CIT in 1934 and in 1935 at Pratt Institute in NY.