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Belle Kogan
Belle Kogan (1902–2000) was a Russian born industrial designer and is regarded as the first prominent female in the profession in the United States as well as one of the founders of the profession itself.〔(- IDSA Design History Section - Belle Kogan )〕 In 1994, she was recognized as a fellow of both the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) and Industrial Designers Institute(IDI).
==Early life and education==
Kogan was born in Ilyashevka, Russia, on June 26, 1902 and emigrated to Allentown, Pennsylvania in 1906. From an early age, she showed an interest in art.〔''Women Designers of the USA 1900-2000''〕 Regarding her senior year of high school, Kogan says, “...an unexplained inspiration on the part of my high school art teacher induced her to have me study Mechanical Drawing.”〔Meikle, ''Belle Kogan Design, 1930–1972:Retrospective Exhibition'', “The New Industrial Designers”〕 Kogan was the only girl in the class.〔 She graduated Bethlehem High School with an art scholarship to Pennsylvania Academy of Art. However, after graduating, she opted to go to Pratt Institute in Brooklyn instead, while teaching the class on mechanical drawing to fund herself. In 1920, she was forced to leave while in her first semester at Pratt to manage her father's jewelry store.〔Rice, “Belle Kogan Remembers” (1994): 39.〕 During this time, she also attended the Art Students League in Manhattan.〔 In 1929, she was employed by the Quaker Silver Company, which trained her as a silver designer at Rhode Island School of Design and the Germany Art School in Pforzheim.〔 In the summer of 1929, Quaker paid for Kogan to take a course at New York University that according to Kogan:
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