Word: designer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Boutiques and malls throughout the U.S. are aglow with it. In the hands of architects, sculptors and even film directors, it is being put to complex and dazzling new uses. "Neon can be cool and elegant," says Paul Barrend, showroom manager of a Chicago neon workshop called Light & Space Design, "or it can be wild and vibrant. It calls attention...
Increasingly, the attention is favorable. "The Magic of Neon," a photographic exhibit mounted by the Smithsonian Institution, has been touring the country for 21 months, and a book with the same title by the show's curator, Design Writer Michael Webb, has gone to a second printing. At the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, after a boardroom battle over its appropriateness, a pink neon street sign was installed in place of the museum's Plexiglas one. "After all," says Board President Helyn Goldenberg, "we are a contemporary institution...
Their collective brainchild, MARBLE, helps companies design and implement computer networks; simulates potentially devastating reactions--such as a nuclear reaction; designs software and hardware; and designs languages. "We market a service, not a product...
...students who have applied, only one has been allowed to design a special concentration in women's studies. The Government Department lost its sole course on women and politics when Ethel Klein left for Columbia. Of the History Department's more than 100 courses, the three focusing on women have an equally uncertain future...
Stanton is currently ending a four-year stint as chairman of the Board of Overseers visiting committee on the Kennedy School. He also sits on the visiting committees of the Graduate School of Design and the Fogg Museum...