Cooper Hewitt says...
George Lawson received his BA in liberal arts from Evansville College in his hometown of Evansville, Indiana in 1928. He then studied advertising art at the Meyer Booth College of Commercial Art and took courses in sculpture and fine art at Cleveland School of Art in Ohio. Lawson worked at General Motors (GM) in the 1930s and moved to Briggs Manufacturing Company in 1940–41. During World War II, he returned to GM, working in the Photographic Section on training aids, a war poster program for the United States Treasury department, and instructional manuals for war materials. Early in 1946, Lawson worked for Preston Tucker of Tucker Corporation, designing a rear-engine car with instruments located on the steering wheel, to be known as the Tucker Torpedo. The project was not successful, and Lawson left Tucker and returned to GM’s Styling and Industrial Design Section, where he worked as the head of Buick Styling and as the head of interior styling. Lawson left GM in 1959 for American Motors Corporation, where he worked as Manager of Research Styling. In 1962, he left AMC in order to focus on his freelance designs. Medical problems forced him to retire in 1969.
