Y Design is alive and well! We’ve been very busy over the past two months with work for Beinecke Library’s 50th anniversary year and several other major projects that you’ll read about soon on this blog. Here are a few snapshots of our designs for Beinecke.
We designed the invitation for January’s 1963-themed opening party…
as well as the invitation for an event with United States Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey, who gave a lecture at Beinecke…
and the reusable black bags that are visible in the background in the two photographs above. We worked with Baggu to create a commemorative, useful, and sustainable giveaway for the opening party: two variants of our 50th-anniversary logo for Beinecke appear on different versions of the reusable tote bag.
We also had the pleasure of working with Totally Chocolate to create a Beinecke chocolate bar (also given away at the opening party).
We worked with Ticonderoga to create custom pencils that match the anniversary logo in color and typography.
Rebecca designed the booklet for By Hand, the first of three major exhibitions this year at Beinecke. The exhibition is on view through April 29, 2013, and showcases a sampling of Beinecke’s incredible manuscript holdings.
She also designed a broadside that chronicles major anniversary events, a series of postcards, stanchion signs for the exhibition, the exhibition banner, and much more.
Here’s three-quarters of our office (we missed you, Lesley!) at the party.
Thank you to GHP, the printer of many of these pieces; Yale Printing & Publishing Services; our other vendors (Baggu, Totally Chocolate, Ticonderoga); and the staff of Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library for an incredible night that kicked off what promises to be a fantastic year. Be sure to stop by the library to see the current exhibitions and to pick up some of these commemorative pieces. Happy 50th, Beinecke!