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National Book Awareness Week!
"The design of books has taught us to consider problems in a whole, complete way, in a cover-to-cover sense, so to speak." - design: Vignelli (1981), #26 [p. 18]
What better way to end National Book Awareness week than with some of the Vignellis book designs from the archives! They designed numerous books over the years including a couple of books about their own work titled design: Vignelli. So we said to ourselves what if we showed the process of designing a book about your own book designs? Now that’s book awareness!
We love sharing the process materials for the design: Vignelli books (see here and here) and we have uncovered even more just recently. Now we can see Massimo’s original handwritten edits to the text and his initial sketches of the book layout. And these are just a couple examples of what we found! We’re so lucky to be able to follow the design process from start to finish!
design: Vignelli book (excerpts), 1981
10 1/8” x 10 1/8”
Massimo and Lella Vignelli Papers
Vignelli Center for Design Studies
Rochester, New YorkMassimo Vignelli’s handwritten text for design: Vignelli book (circa 1981)
pen on paper
9” x 12”
Box 584, Massimo and Lella Vignelli Papers
Vignelli Center for Design Studies
Rochester, New YorkSketches for design: Vignelli book (circa 1981)
pencil and crayon on paper
14” x 17”
Box 454, Massimo and Lella Vignelli Papers
Vignelli Center for Design Studies
Rochester, New York
All of the YES. Because Vignelli.
“And the days are not full enough
And the nights are not full enough
And life slips by like a field mouse
Not shaking the grass”
Perspective
—Dorn
“Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn’t have to be a romantic walk in the park, spring at its most spectacular moment, flowers and smells and outstanding poetical imagery smoothly transferring you into another world. It doesn’t have to be a walk during which you’ll have multiple life epiphanies and discover meanings no other brain ever managed to encounter. Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but “steal” some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.”
SIBLINGS
The ground is bracing.
My brother,
How can I bury you
Hand your winter coat
To the cold?
Words and photo © Jane Dorn
Timothy Leary and Baba Ram Dass as faculty at Harvard, early-60s.
On October 29th, two of our own Art & Design professors gave an informative and inspiring gallery talk about their photography work. For years, Jane A. Dorn and Jo Carol Mitchell-Rogers have been roaming the South together and photographing its unique sights and scenery. This exhibition juxtaposes their individual experiences at a single location.
Be sure to see their photographs in Thrift Library’s Vandiver Gallery before December 13th!
Anne Lamott, soul-stretching as ever, on the true gift of friendship and how to master the uncomfortable art of letting yourself be seen.
“Find the thing in you that is different, that’s as sharp as a diamond and jagged as a razor. Hone that, because that’s the thing with which you’ll cut the world. If you try to stay a safe and soft and average, then you’re going to get lost in the sea of all those other things that look just like you. Find the things about yourself that are weird and cultivate them because, eventually, those are the things the world is going to want to reward you for and that will bring you the most happiness. When you’re young, those are the things that cause you so much pain, but it’s that pain that makes you unique. Own your scars.”
This is important.
(via rebabutterpants)Yes it is.
“I love you. I love you,
but I’m turning to my verses
and my heart is closing
like a fist.”
It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life.
Albert Camus (November 7, 1913–4 January 1960) in Notebooks: 1951–1959
Song: “Both Sides Now” by Joni Mitchell (b. November 7, 1943)
Show hanging underway. What an amazing group of human beings. #artbombstudios #openstudios
“How privileged you are, to be still passionately
clinging to what you love;
the forfeit of hope has not destroyed you.”
Reading. Thinking.
A good day for mail
C’mon, Tuesday. You can do this.
—Dorn