Education:

BA, Harvard University; MA, Columbia University

Professional experience includes:

Contributing editor, Esquire, Departures, I.D., Wired
 

Books authored include:

Made in USA: The Secret Histories of the Things That Made America; Autodesign International: Marken, Modelle und ihre Macher; Open Road: Celebration of the American Highway; Roadside America; Bug: The Strange Mutations of the World’s Most Famous Automobile; Dreamland: Travels Inside the Secret World of Roswell and Area 51; Michael Graves Designs: The Art of the Everyday Object; Razzle-Dazzle: The Curious Marriage of Television and Professional Football
 

Publications include:

Art in America, Connoisseur, Geo, Harper’s Bazaar, New Republic, Manhattan Inc., Men’s Journal, ARTnews, Omni, Rolling Stone, Seven Days, The New York Times Book Review, Condé Nast Traveler, Travel + Leisure, New York magazine, Vogue, Smithsonian, Washington Post, The Village Voice

Consulting curator:

“Cars, Culture, and the City,” Museum of the City of New York; “Blobjects and Beyond: The New Fluidity In Design,” San Jose Museum of Art; “Curves of Steel: Streamlining the Automobile,” Phoenix Museum of Art; “Different Roads,” Museum of Modern Art. Contributor, “On the Job: Design and the American Office,” National Building Museum