Word: bland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Vanderbyl is responsible for more superb corporate logos than any other designer of his generation. Ordinarily, logos tend to epitomize the worst tendencies of modern design: distilling a complicated business into one simple symbol almost inevitably results in bland, meaningless abstraction. Vanderbyl's best occupy that ambiguous zone just this side of abstraction; although highly refined, they suggest serendipity and imperfection, the real world in other words. For a World War II shipyard turned condo development, a star of horizontal stripes is given a trompe l'oeil, waving-flag wrinkle. For a printing company, a triangle is composed of lithographic...
...surrounding medieval structures and would emerge as a distasteful visual anachronism. A close examination of your color illustrations reveals that the Sistine Chapel's uncleaned surfaces have a warmth of spirit that is absent in the cleaned areas. The vitality of the "old" Michelangelo is absent in the bland, dispirited imagery that has emerged...
Seminole Tammy Whittington beat Kristin Bland in third singles...
...Seminoles swept in doubles. Hetherington and Goodrich beat Boss and Bland at number...
...singles: Shaun Stafford, F. def. Kathy Vigna, H, 6-3, 6-3; 2nd singles: Jill Hetherington, F. def. Robin Boss, H, 6-1, 6-1; 3rd singles: Tammy Whittington, F. def. Kristin Bland, H, 6-0, 6-3; 4th singles: Denise Dayan, F. def. Cindy Austrian, H, 6-3, 7-5; 5th singles: Cristina Dragomirescu, H. def. Nicole Polasek, F. 6-3, 7-6; 6th singles: Cathy Goodrich, F. def. Kathy Mulvehal, H, 7-6, 1-6, 6-4; 1st doubles: Hetherington and Goodrich, F. def. Boss and Bland, 6-4, 6-1; 2nd doubles: Stafford and Polasek...