A brochure for the GM Design Summer Internship Program including photos, descriptions, and car design inserts.
A brochure for the GM Styling Summer Internship Program including photos, descriptions, and a calendar timeline. George Jergenson is listed as an educational seminar participant.
Correspondence, contracts, and evaluations related to Jergenson's consultation work with AMC styling.
This spiral bound book has 11 captioned photographs of a reception for Art Center Alumni held at GM Styling.
Correspondence related to and lists of Art Center (and other design schools) graduates in the automotive industry, mainly General Motors.
This 8-minute silent film is of a trip to Japan with Tink Adams and John Coleman to advise on the design of export items. It has the look of a home movie with images of street scenes and Mount Fuji through the window of a train.
This 18-minute silent film of a trip to Paris and London with John Coleman has the look and feel of a home movie with images of street scenes and tourist highlights such as the Eiffel Tower and the Tower of London.
For the Catalina Project in 1961, Product Design students designed and built watercraft. This 5-minute silent film shows the students presenting their watercraft at the national convention of the Industrial Design Society of America on Catalina Island.
Outlines, assignments and photocopied articles related to art history, from the ancient world to Etruscan. Jergenson designed this lesson plan as background for engineering students who co-oped at design at the General Motors Institute. Also included is a letter to "Carol" explaining the contents and how they are organized. In the letter he states this is binder 1 of 3 (the other two are missing from this collection) and there are accompanying slides (also missing).
This childhood sketchbook of George's was designed to instruct nascent artists in drawing the human figure, animals, landscapes, and lettering. He colored the pictures in crayon, but also sketched in pencil.