Word: graphics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...believing that it was difficult or unpleasant to handle. Now that prejudice is fading. The small, ethnic, Mom and Pop fish stores are disappearing from large cities, but they are being replaced to some extent by Korean-operated shops and elaborate seafood departments in supermarkets. Grand Union has had Graphic Designer Milton Glaser give special attention to its new seafood departments, with lots of white tile and ice for whole and cut fish. The results are good, according to Steve Osder, director of seafood merchandising for the 75 markets in the East and Southeast. "We have had a 25% increase...
...although poorly designed public buildings, spaghetti-like freeway intersections and confusing graphic gobbledygook are wasteful and ugly, little attention has been paid to the problem. Says Architect Bill N. Lacy, president of the Cooper Union art, architecture and engineering school in New York City: "The U.S. is a Fourth World country when it comes to design awareness...
Last week, in the Indian Treaty Room of the Executive Office Building, the President presented the first 13 awards to architects, engineers and graphic designers, as well as officials of several agencies, including the National Park Service and the Veterans Administration. Some of the outstanding winners...
Another design breakthrough that won presidential praise was the final acceptance by the U.S. Department of Transportation of the transportation- related symbols and pictograms that were refined and adapted by the American Institute of Graphic Arts. More than 50 signs are now being introduced along streets, at airports and at other facilities. They include visual commands for no parking and no smoking, as well as symbols for fire extinguisher and escalator...
...other winners are NASA's appropriately high-tech logo and graphic system; a coordinated National Park Service pamphlet design; the Historic Preservation Tax Incentives Program; the GSA program for placing artworks in public buildings; the Charles River flood control, navigation improvement and pollution abatement; a public housing project in Charleston, S.C.; and an urban redevelopment program in St. Paul...