{"id":311,"date":"2012-05-15T22:17:28","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T22:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/?p=311"},"modified":"2025-04-19T07:35:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T07:35:03","slug":"gene-landesman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/universaldomainexchange.com\/whoswho\/gene-landesman\/","title":{"rendered":"Gene Landesman"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eugene (Gene) Landesman was the founder of Lawson Screen Products in St. Louis, Missouri, and the inventor of many innovative machines for the industry. His father was an <\/span>immigrant artist from Berlin, Germany, who came to St. Louis to paint the murals for the German <\/span>pavilion at the 1904 World’s Fair. He grew up near the Central West End, where his mother ran <\/span>an antique shop while his father painted murals for the W.P.A.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gene’s brother Jay Landesman is an author, publisher, and producer. Jay’s wife, Fran, is a poet and songwriter. They owned <\/span>the Crystal Palace cabaret and theater. It was a cultural, literary, and artistic inspiration, the <\/span>centerpiece of Gaslight Square, that joy-filled entertainment district that flourished in St. <\/span>Louis in the late ’50s and early ’60s.<\/span><\/p>\n

Gene, an inventor by trade, accidentally fell into the screenprinting technologies. In 1949, the owner of Decalmania of St. Louis was producing screenprinted decals by hand with 30 operators. He asked Gene to stop by his St. Louis-based business to see if he could help him automate the business. Gene built the Lawson Powered Squeegee, and Decalmania was the first customer to buy 20 of the Powered Squeegee.<\/p>\n

Screen Process Association International (SPAI) (now the Specialty Graphics and Imaging Association – SGIA), which was founded in 1948, held its first trade show in 1950, Gene attended as an exhibitor and accepted 25 orders for the Lawson Powered Squeegee. Gene went on to invent many other machines, both manual and semi-automatic presses, for the graphics and textiles segments of the screenprinting technologies.<\/p>\n

In 1974, Gene brought his oldest son, Ben Landesman, into the business to better grow the company, and his youngest son David joined the company in 1978. In 1979, Gene asked his sons to purchase the business, and they did. Ben’s son, Taylor, had graduated from university with a law degree and, after practicing law for five years, was also brought into the company in 2015.<\/p>\n

Today, the company has 50 employees. Lawson moves back and forth as the second or third largest manufacturer of screenprinting equipment in North America. They have an extensive sales and distribution center in Marieta, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta. Lawson continues to focus on the domestic market, with less than 10% of the company’s sales being International.<\/p>\n

Landesman is a 1989 inductee into the Academy of Screen and Digital Print Technologies (ASDPT).. In 1989 Landesman was presented with the Parmele Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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