We worked with Bass to design table tents intended to enliven study spaces and show support for students during reading week and finals.

We felt that our design should in some way speak specifically to studying in Yale libraries.

So, we paired text with archival images of Yale students hard at work in the libraries back in the day.

The table tents provide encouragement,

illustrate common experiences,

provide moments of comic relief,

and document nostalgic scenes of studying 60 years ago.

The incongruity between the 1950s-60s photos and the invitation to tweet drives this concept, confirming the trope that  “the more things change, the more they stay the same.”