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Lewis "Phil" Patton
Phil Patton (March 23, 1952 - September 22, 2015) was a prolific and oft-quoted  writer on design, technology, automobiles and history.

Biography
Born Lewis Foster Patton on March 23, 1952, to Lewis and Mildred (Dwyer) Patton in Durham, North Carolina, he was known throughout his life as Phil, after the airman who saved the life of his father, a World War II bombardier shot down over Japan.

Phil grew up in Florida at an airbase and in North Carolina, absorbing the lore of flight that manifest in one of his earliest books, Voyager, co-written with the pilots of the first airplane to circumnavigate the globe without refueling, as well as one of his last books, Dreamland: Travels Inside the Secret World of Roswell and Area 51.

At Harvard University, he was an arts editor of The Harvard Crimson and graduated in 1974 with a degree in English and history. He moved to New York City, graduated from Columbia University with a master's degree in comparative literature and briefly worked as a fact-checker for Esquire and as editor of the Delta Airlines magazine before turning to a lifetime of freelance and book writing.

He lived in Montclair and Woodland Park, New Jersey, for most of his career.

Journalism
The New York Times cited his reportage as well as his deft humor found in articles published over decades. He created the "Public Eye" design column and contributed to "Design Notebook", "Automobiles", "Style", "New York Times Magazine" and other sections. As a contributing editor for Esquire, he authored "Design" and "Living Quarters" columns. He was a regular reviewer for Artforum and a contributing editor for WIRED, Departures and I.D. magazine, as well as an early tech columnist for Parents magazine.

A partial list of his of his other outlets includes American Heritage, Architectural Digest, Art in America, ARTnews, AutoWeek, Automobile, Car and Driver, Condé Nast Traveler, Connoisseur, Core 77, Design Applause, Design Observer, Esquire Japan, Geo, Harper's Bazaar, Inc., Interiors, Manhattan, Men's Journal, Metropolis, The New Republic, New York, Omni, Seven Days, Smithsonian, Travel + Leisure, The Village Voice, Vogue and The Washington Post Book World.

Books
He 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
 * Voyager by Jeana Yeager and Dick Rutan with Phil Patton, Knopf, 1987
 * Made in U.S.A.: The Secret Histories of the Things That Made America, Grove Press, 1992
 * Bill Traylor: High Singing Blue, Carl Hammer Gallery, 1997
 * Dreamland: Travels Inside the Secret World of Roswell and Area 51, Villard (Random House), 1998
 * Bug: The Strange Mutations of the World’s Most Famous Automobile, Simon & Schuster, 2002
 * Michael Graves Designs: The Art of the Everyday Object, by Phil Patton with Michael Graves Design Group, Melcher Media, 2004
 * Cars, Culture, and the City, by Donald Albrecht, Phil Patton, Museum of the City of New York in conjunction with its 2010 exhibit of the same name.
 * Autodesign International: Marken, Modelle und ihre Macher (Autodesign International: Cars, Brands and Their Creators), by Bernd Polster and Phil Patton, DuMont Buchverlag GmbH, 2010 (Germany)
 * Top This and Other Parables of Design: Selected Writings by Phil Patton, 40 excerpts of his writing chosen by friends in the design world, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, 2016

Educator
He was among the earliest faculty members of the School of Visual Arts Design Criticism program, where his coffee cup lids and literary collection is archived. Earlier, he taught or lectured at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, California College of the Arts, Parsons School of Design and Montclair State University.

Museums
He 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).

Recognizing his seminal I.D. magazine article on the design of coffee cup lids, the Cincinnati Art Museum featured his collection of the lids in an exhibit entitled Caution: Contents Hot (2007).

Lectures and Broadcast Media
A frequent speaker at museums and design conferences, Phil Patton also often served as nominator and judge for such programs as the Chrysler Design Award and EyesOn Design. He spoke 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; and other venues.

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); and American Icons (History Channel, 2001). He was featured on numerous National Public Radio programs as well as other broadcast outlets.

Consulting
He consulted for Knoll, Spinneybeck Leather, frogdesign, Material Connection and fashion and design clients in Japan and Europe.