Word: designations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...modern art world of abstractions and specializations, Leo Lionni is a phenomenon-a genuinely versatile man. He is one of the world's most original designers. He is also a serious and talented painter. Last week the Massachusetts Worcester Art Museum put Lionni's versatility on display. Said Worcester's Director Daniel Catton Rich: "Many of the commercial artists in this country are sort of soured artists. Lionni is not. He is a rounded artist. As a painter, he has taken the unusual path of going through the abstract to the representational, now goes back...
...aeropainter." Even then Lionni had a taste for variety. He exhibited his oils and wrote movie reviews while he was getting a Ph.D. in economics at the University of Genoa (1935). He came to the U.S. in 1939, almost immediately established himself as a fresh new talent in U.S. design...
...director of N. W. Ayer & Son in Philadelphia, he supervised Container Corp. of America's famed series that brought modern art into advertising layout. As design director for Olivetti, Lionni produced displays, designed new showrooms in San Francisco and Chicago. He has designed posters for Family Service, fountains for housing projects, displays for the U.S. Pavilion at the Brussels World's Fair, is currently (among other things) art director of FORTUNE. But he has also kept on painting, producing a series of austere, severely painted portraits of men and women, remote and haunted-eyed. Says Lionni...
Architects for the building, Hugh Stubbins Associates, have found it necessary to alter their foundation plans considerably, on the basis of findings made during test borings for the theatre several weeks ago. Further, the architects have been dissatisfied with earlier designs for the hydraulic lift to be installed in the building, and each alteration in design for this mechanism necessitates a redesign of the foundation...
...models are sold. When Revell decided to produce the then-secret Russian Yak-25, a jet fighter (nickname: the Flashlight), it collected photos and details from overseas clients, got everything but the plane's landing gear. Relying on their study of other Red aircraft, Revell's engineers designed the Yak's landing gear as they figured the Russians would. Four months later, an official Soviet photo proved Revell's design correct...