Y Design Blog

August 26, 2015

A yale bearing a “Y”-emblazoned banner above the gateway of Yale’s Davenport College. 

August 18, 2015

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. 

August 15, 2015

Happy birthday to Paul Rand, who was born on this day in 1914. 

August 12, 2015

The iconic New Haven Railroad logo, designed by Herbert Matter in 1954, on the tiled walls of Union Station. 

August 7, 2015

The Yale seal on a stained glass window in Sterling Memorial Library, which opened in 1931.

August 5, 2015

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. 

July 29, 2015

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. 

July 27, 2015

Josef Albers’s “Repeat and Reverse” above the entrance to the Yale Art & Architecture Building, completed in 1963.

July 24, 2015

Detail of a relief commemorating the Old Yale Fence (“The Old Yale Fence Stood Here”).

July 23, 2015

Detail of a type specimen poster for the Yale typeface, designed by Matthew Carter in 2004. 

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