Word: designate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such efforts seem not misguided but essential if Harvard and Radcliffe are ever to unify living resources. Architecturally, Radcliffe already offers potential attractions, when its existing small buildings are contrasted with the large Harvard houses, and when the separated units of Currier are compared to the more monolithic design of Mather. Institutionally, Radcliffe may soon be in a position not simply to imitate Harvard houses, but to compete with them and cooperate with them. Since Harvard's houses seems likely to remain in one form another, isn't this new source of influence one to be strengthened and encouraged? Peter...
...Your reviewer of this season's coffee-table books may dig big art books, but he obviously doesn't understand or like our innocent seashells [The Shell: Five Hundred Million Years of Inspired Design; Nov. 29]. Explain to him that all those hundreds of glistening shells that he thinks were polished and doctored actually came out of the sea just as Photographer Landshoff shows them...
Despite his Herald Tribune disaster,.Whitney never got completely out of publishing. His corporation has long owned three other publications: Parade, a newspaper Sunday supplement; Harvest Years, a monthly for the retired; and Interior Design, a trade journal for interior decorators. Whitney Communications is also the controlling stockholder in the Paris-based International Herald Tribune...
...POSTER done last year for A Flea In Her Ear McClelland's art articulately advertises that the play was gay and bawdy and lively. His fuchsia and orange design, which includes an upside-down Art Nouveau lady with the usual flowing tresses, also proves his ability to organize a graphically coherent page. Highly original title letters with lacy curlings serifs and a plump curved "Georges Feydeau" add more Art Nouveau-type curvilinears appropriate to the late 19th century French farce...
This titillating tidbit is only one among hundreds of objects which prove definitely what Design Research, Georg Jensen, and Bonniers have been hinting at--plastic can be elegant and expressive in its own right, as well as functional...