Robert Gruen, FIDSA

US industrial and package designer who received an illustration degree from Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1934, worked in 1935 as a set designer for Norman Bel Geddes, and for a film studio in Hollywood in 1936. He returned to New York in 1937 to work as a designer of glassware and opened his own office in 1940. A founding member of the Package Designers Council in 1952, he became president of IDI in 1953-1954, a Fellow in that organization, and was instrumental in its merger with ASID to form IDSA in 1965. IDSA honored his IDI Fellowship at that time. He retired to Philadelphia, PA.  

Activities for Robert

IDSA Award Winner | Fellow | 1965