David Chapman

David Chapman, FIDSA 1909-1978

David Chapman, US architect and industrial designer, was an architectural graduate of the Armour Institute of Technology (which later became Illinois Institute of Technology), Chicago. Chapman worked on the design staff of the Century of Progress Exposition in 1933-1934, and at the same time, joined Montgomery Ward as an architect. Anne Swainson, then heading the Montgomery Ward internal Bureau of Design, appointed him Head of Product Design, where he designed many products and had a staff of 18 by 1935.