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By Chika Ota on May 2, 2012

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The Yale MFA Graphic Design Thesis Show is on view at Green Hall right now. I was able to see only one room of the three-floor exhibition due to ongoing final critiques, but I took a few photographs of the work I saw. Can't wait to see the rest.

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aka BooksOnAShelf 
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The closing reception for the show starts at 6 pm this Saturday, 5 May. In the meantime, learn more about the exhibition on the YGDMFA website. Congratulations, class of 2012!

Mapping Yale, Part Four

By Lesley Baier on April 27, 2012

2011 Bulletin Map
Not until 2001 did Yale reorient its campus map, adopting the common cartographic convention of showing north at the top. A simple black-and-white version, divided into  north and south sections, appears on facing pages in the Bulletin series; here’s the 2011 version. It is set in Bell Centennial, a typeface designed in the 1970s for AT&T by Matthew Carter, a senior critic at the School of Art. Intended for use in phonebooks, Bell Centennial is extremely compact and legible in very small point sizes.

 Visitor Center accordion map
Our office also developed an accordion-fold version printed in Yale Blue for the Visitor Center. It is set in Scala Sans. 

 Reineck & Reineck map
The information graphics firm Reineck & Reineck, in San Francisco, designed the color version that hangs in Yale’s map display cases. It is set in TheSans, a sans-serif typeface that we particularly recommend as a companion to the Yale typeface, which is used for the headings in the map key. The Yale typeface was also designed by Matthew Carter.

Linked by Air map 
The color map was adapted for Yale’s interactive online map (www.yale.edu/map), designed and programmed by the design firm Linked by Air. Tamara Maletic and Dan Michaelson, Linked by Air’s partners, both graduated from the Yale School of Art, and Dan is a lecturer in graphic design there. 

These maps, and several specialized campus maps, are maintained by our office.

For additional images, click on the "Image galleries" link to the left.

2012 Senior Project Exhibition

By Chika Ota on April 20, 2012

Jamar Bromley
The 2012 Senior Project Exhibition is currently installed in Green Hall! It'll be up through 23 April. I snapped a few photographs of the design work in the show; the entire exhibition is worth a look.

Ben Bowles
Kirill Miniaev
Sarah Eidelson
Madeline Kelly
From top to bottom, the photographs in this post feature the work of Jamar Bromley, Benjamin Bowles, Kirill Miniaev, Sarah Eidelson, and Madeline Kelly. Congratulations on a fantastic show, seniors!

Lohmann Prize Judging and Ceremony

By Chika Ota on April 17, 2012
Event location: 
Haas Arts Library Special Collections
Event time: 
Friday, May 4, 2012 - 12:00pm - 4:00pm


Deadline
Submissions due Friday, 4 May 2012 at noon

Place to submit
Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library Special Collections
180 York Street, lower level  

Eligibility 
Printed pieces planned and/or executed in the past year by a student who is currently a Yale undergraduate. Eligible pieces include college publications and ephemera, self-initiated publishing activities, or products of class assignments. Fine arts printmaking projects are not eligible. Acceptable media include letterpress, offset lithography, screen printing, and digitally rendered forms. 

How to mark entries
One sample of each entry should be submitted. In pencil, on the back of each piece, should be written clearly the name(s) of the student(s) involved, each student’s class, residential college, and permanent mailing address. 

Awards
Cash prizes will be awarded, and winning pieces become part of the Arts of the Book permanent collection. Prizes will be announced and awards made at an informal ceremony on 4 May at 3 pm. 

Purpose
The Lohmann Prizes aim to recognize and celebrate the broad range of interest in planning, craft, and invention that gives undergraduate design and printing at Yale its singular character. The judges are eager to see printed work of all kinds in order to reward skill, discipline, and imagination. Entries not selected may be retrieved by the entrants following the awards ceremony.

For more information send inquiries to chika.ota@yale.edu 
www.yale.edu/printer/lohmann

Spotted: Installation on Old Campus

By Chika Ota on April 17, 2012

Installation on Old Campus.
I noticed this installation when I walked through Old Campus last week. Someone had taken over the bulletin board nearest the Elm Street entrance -- it was covered in orange.

The installation on Old Campus.

Installation, detail shot.

Installation, detail.
After some investigation, I discovered that this and other interactive installations across campus are part of Sarah Eidelson's senior project for the art major. Sarah sent me a statement that describes her work. In her own words:

"In fall 2011, residents in 18 of New Haven's 30 wards went to the polls to elect their representatives to the New Haven Board of Aldermen -- more than in any local election in recent memory. Grassroots, community-based candidates beat those backed by the Democratic Party machine and invested in the status quo in 16 of these races. Because of this political sea change in our city and the personpower that brought it about, we have arrived at a moment where more is possible for our social and economic justice movement than ever before in New Haven's history.

On November 8, 2011, I was elected to the Board to represent Ward 1, which includes about 80% of Yale College students and a small portion of downtown New Haven. I ran on a platform of paradigm shift, committing to a policy vision for a New Haven where government works for people, no one lives in fear, and all neighborhoods are vibrant and inclusive. I won the support of my now-constituents through grassroots organizing.

This project is an exploration in visual translation of the history and the social movement of which I am a part. As an organizer, I am striving to move people through design the way I would through conversation. Over the past few months, I have created a series of interactive installations in public spaces on campus that aim to inform, instruct, and inspire my community about the extraordinary political moment we are in. This work is intended as a guide and as a call to action -- both to the immediate action that each installation demands, and to the larger action required by the potential of this moment."

See Sarah's and other art majors' work at the Senior Project Exhibition in Green Hall on Chapel Street. The show will be up through April 23.

Designer Lunch #4

By Chika Ota on April 16, 2012
Event location: 
Office of the University Printer
Event time: 
Monday, July 9, 2012 - 12:00pm - 1:30pm


The Office of the University Printer invites you to join us for lunch in our studio-office. Yale staff, students, and vendors who perform print, web, and other design work for Yale are invited. Lunch (including vegetarian options) will be provided. Please bring examples of your recent design work for an informal show-and-tell. We see this as a time to get to know one another better, build our community, and share the wide range of visual work done by those assembled. We promise to keep speech-making to an absolute minimum.

These lunches will begin at 12 pm at 2 Whitney Avenue, Rm 203, and will end at approximately 1:30. Please reply to this invitation with your first- and second-choice dates of attendance to chika.ota@yale.edu. Alternatively, you can call Chika at 203-432-2140. You will receive confirmation of your lunch session. 

Monday, 9 July

Due to limited space, we will not be able to accommodate designers who do not reply and receive confirmation in advance. We ask that you pass along to us contact information for Yale designers whose names do not appear on the address list so that we can invite them to future sessions.

We look forward to having lunch with you sometime soon!

Designer Lunch #3

By Chika Ota on April 16, 2012
Event location: 
Office of the University Printer
Event time: 
Wednesday, June 6, 2012 - 12:00pm - 1:30pm


The Office of the University Printer invites you to join us for lunch in our studio-office. Yale staff, students, and vendors who perform print, web, and other design work for Yale are invited. Lunch (including vegetarian options) will be provided. Please bring examples of your recent design work for an informal show-and-tell. We see this as a time to get to know one another better, build our community, and share the wide range of visual work done by those assembled. We promise to keep speech-making to an absolute minimum.

These lunches will begin at 12 pm at 2 Whitney Avenue, Rm 203, and will end at approximately 1:30. Please reply to this invitation with your first- and second-choice dates of attendance to chika.ota@yale.edu. Alternatively, you can call Chika at 203-432-2140. You will receive confirmation of your lunch session.

Wednesday, 6 June
Monday, 9 July

Due to limited space, we will not be able to accommodate designers who do not reply and receive confirmation in advance. We ask that you pass along to us contact information for Yale designers whose names do not appear on the address list so that we can invite them to future sessions.
 
We look forward to having lunch with you sometime soon!

Designer Lunch #2

By Chika Ota on April 16, 2012
Event location: 
Office of the University Printer
Event time: 
Tuesday, May 8, 2012 - 12:00pm - 1:30pm


The Office of the University Printer invites you to join us for lunch in our studio-office. Yale staff, students, and vendors who perform print, web, and other design work for Yale are invited. Lunch (including vegetarian options) will be provided. Please bring examples of your recent design work for an informal show-and-tell. We see this as a time to get to know one another better, build our community, and share the wide range of visual work done by those assembled. We promise to keep speech-making to an absolute minimum. 

These lunches will begin at 12 pm at 2 Whitney Avenue, Rm 203, and will end at approximately 1:30. Please reply to this invitation with your first- and second-choice dates of attendance to chika.ota@yale.edu. Alternatively, you can call Chika at 203-432-2140. You will receive confirmation of your lunch session.

Tuesday, 8 May
Wednesday, 6 June
Monday, 9 July

Due to limited space, we will not be able to accommodate designers who do not reply and receive confirmation in advance. We ask that you pass along to us contact information for Yale designers whose names do not appear on the address list so that we can invite them to future sessions.

We look forward to having lunch with you sometime soon!