Y Design Blog
A yale bearing a “Y”-emblazoned banner above the gateway of Yale’s Davenport College.
We visited GHP in West Haven today for a press check of the upcoming issue of “Beinecke Illuminated,” the biannual newsletter of Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
Happy birthday to Paul Rand, who was born on this day in 1914.
The iconic New Haven Railroad logo, designed by Herbert Matter in 1954, on the tiled walls of Union Station.
The Yale seal on a stained glass window in Sterling Memorial Library, which opened in 1931.
Dan Friedman was born on this day in 1945. An influential designer and educator, Friedman taught graphic design at the Yale School of Art from 1969 to 1973.
Yale logo usage guidelines, as seen on the back cover of The Production Line of Happiness, the exhibition catalog for photographer and conceptual artist Christopher Williams’s 2014 retrospective at MoMA and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Josef Albers’s “Repeat and Reverse” above the entrance to the Yale Art & Architecture Building, completed in 1963.
Detail of a relief commemorating the Old Yale Fence (“The Old Yale Fence Stood Here”).
Detail of a type specimen poster for the Yale typeface, designed by Matthew Carter in 2004.