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...when Nathan Garland first constructed the official logo. Ryan sent the New Haven graphic designer back to the drawing board for fine tuning several times. He wanted Garland to measure the total square area alloted to both the block H and block...
Sure, Saturday's big event features The Official Logo, and The Official Program ($5), and The Official Handkerchief ($2), and The 100th Game Ticket in Lucite ($30), and The Golf Shirt ($29.50), and The Tote Bag ($12.50), and the pre-game descent by the U.S. Navy's Shooting Stars parachute squad, and special jerseys, and the commemorative coin-toss featuring about 50 former captains...
Garland's logo, which intertwines an H and Y, was just one component of a master plan for the 100th game, which had three underlying principles, according to Carroll Lowenstein '53, who served as the Harvard liasion on Yale's organizational committee...
Another sore spot is Garland's specially commissioned logo, which one respected New Haven Register columnist described as "a hideous design which emphasizes the crimson H over the blue Y." Or, as Harvard Varsity Club President Bob Picket matter-of-factly notes: "Harvard is more prominent than Yale in the Logo, which helps." Garland explains that H is simply a larger letter, adding. "We just arrived at the most equal and optically pleasing design...We don't want to be unjudicious hosts...
That's it. It's the ears. They both have big ears. In the iconography of American entertainment, there are two symbols that instantly conjure up one-word responses: Playboy's stylized bunny connotes "sex" and Disney's geometric logo type mouse suggests "family." But the bunny and the mouse have more than just prominent ears in common. Playboy equals naughty adult fun; Disney, whole some kid fun. Disney and Playboy are both purveyors of fantasy: Playboy makes real women seem unreal; Disney makes unreal adventures seem real. The Playboy mansion is a sort of Disneyland...