Word: designers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hiding of the institutional trappings succeeds fabulously. The serving area is far removed from the dining hall proper, and the salad bar and gaping maw of the tray return are blocked off with a tasteful privacy wall whose carving design is echoed in the columns that mark off the "oasis" from the rest of the dining area--unifying the separating elements of the space. (This is opposed to Quincy, where the separating elements are unified by a similar "ribbed" design but where the salad bar juts obtrusively into the dining space.) The entire room is flooded with light from...
...Quincy is an Orientalist's wet dream, a melange of all things exotically Asian done up with clean lines and simple geometric shapes (triangular ceiling sconces, cube chairs). The screens that separate the serving area from the dining area are like Japanese privacy screens, their slatted design evoking "exotic" bamboo. Various Ming-style vases and tureens once lined up like eager Maoists atop the salad bar, but have since disappeared in a fit of Amerocentrism. A rather unflattering painting of a beaming (and vaguely sickened) Buddha watches blissfully over the entire proceedings, as "offerings" of fruits and sweets (the traditional...
...those who look at this week's cover and sympathize with the plight of the unphotogenic, for those who could use a bit of pixel-magic themselves, or for those who wish to design their own coming-of-age (think: Clarisa The Teenage Witch), I present my own version of FM's weekly feature. "How to: acheive photographic perfection with Adobe Photoshop...
...composed solely with students in mind. The library office also plans to disseminate the packets to the media, potential donors and friends of the library as well as for any general campaigning purposes. The packets are part of a much larger library project, in conjunction with an outside design firm, which includes designing a new library logo, creating "much needed" new stationery and revamping the library Web site...
...name pays homage to the black mathematician and surveyor who helped design Washington, D.C. in 1790. The founding group of parents and educators grew out of the DuBois Institute, a Saturday program that tried to give black children a chance for academic and personal enrichment...