Word: designs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fast-track design of the dormitory, in which building began before plans were complete, resulted in a $300,000 overrun on the construction beyond the $3 million projected expense...
These ills are compounded by channeling all the problems of black students to the black administrator. Poussaint says that he handles most minority-student problems at the Medical School in part by choice, but in part by the design of the other members of the school...
...Dreams, power and imagination," murmured High Priestess of Fashion Diana Vreeland. She was looking over galleries that glittered and winked with rhinestones, diamanté, sequins and paillettes. It was on the eve of her exhibition, Romantic and Glamorous Hollywood Design at the Metropolitan Museum, and the former Vogue editor in chief was putting last-minute touches on more than 100 refurbished but original costumes from the movies. Pausing by the white organza gown worn by Joan Crawford in Letty Lynton, she recalled: "Five hundred thousand copies of this dress were sold." Then she straightened the hat worn by Vivien Leigh...
...catalogue essay, "To deal with Max Bill solely as a painter, sculptor and graphic artist is to make a distinction which he never made in his work: the distinction between Fine Art and the other areas of his activity." Bill has practiced as an architect; he has designed all manner of manufactured objects, from samovars to wall clocks; he was responsible for the shape of one the most elegantly pure pre-stressed-concrete structures in the world, the Lavina-Tobel bridge in Switzerland (1966-67). In design, Bill has been an acknowledged rationalizing force. So has he been...
...Bill, has always been research; and this quasi-scientific model demands a candor about means and ends in each painting or sculpture. Every painting of Bill's is in some way a demonstration of its own making. There are no "occult" design systems; everything can be deduced from a simple grid and from serial repetition. So in Construction from a Theme from 1946 (1967), the five main colors make their appearance in turn: first a stripe of blue pushing out the black at the top, then a lavender stripe displacing the blue at the left, then a red behind...