Word: designs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...book notices and exchanges will be with the design to place before our readers only what is likely to interest them. Generalities are seldom read, and therefore will be omitted in these parts of the paper, and in the column devoted to the theatre as well. From time to time we shall review in a more conspicuous place than usual books that treat of education, or otherwise bear a relation to college life...
...financial state of the paper was strengthened considerably by the efforts of George Gund '09, the Business Manager, whose name is now attached to the immense ziggurat which houses Harvard's Graduate School of Design. But once again, the editorial content of the paper suffered, and, in the years from 1909-1912, the growth of advertising, combined with the four-column, four-page paper, cut down severely on the amount of space which could be devoted to news and editorials. As a result, the editors of the Class of 1912 devoted their efforts to the optimal use of space...
Prouvost had earlier decided to shave an inch from the magazine's vertical size to create a less bulky format. Then he ruled that a complete typographical overhaul should accompany that change. Among those he called on for advice was Commercial Artist Milton Glaser, 43, design director of New York magazine. Glaser went to Paris in late November and quickly whipped off some 30 sample designs for the "new" Paris Match cover. Impressed, Prouvost then asked Glaser to redesign the entire magazine. The only hitch was that he refused to wait the two or three months that Glaser guessed...
...Parisian entertainment and city life, Glaser borrowed some graphic tricks from his own work at New York: colored pages or borders, boxed stories and charts, regular use of cartoon illustrations, an eye-catching mixture of white space and type. After this 26-hour ordeal, Prouvost immediately approved the design and Glaser's exhausted co-workers toasted him with champagne. "It was," says Glaser, "a real ego trip...
...their own proposals, there has been no open forum in which both the opposing sides (Proponents of Plans 2 and 3) have argued the relative merits of their proposals before the decision-makers President Bok and the donor). The Radcliffe Masters have met to consider the Planning Office's design for Plan 3, but discussion has been confined to the problems of that plan rather than the the advantages of that plan over the Hunt Hall proposal...