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Mick and Graphic Design
 "Beauty
Through Structure..."
Those words, excerpted from a quote from architect Minoru
Yamasaki, in describing what he hoped to achieve in a certain
now-destroyed building complex, resounded within me when I
first read them, in no small way due to their similarity to
"Peace Through Understanding", the wry slogan of
the 1964 World's Fair.
If "Beauty Through Structure" is a worthy goal,
why not "Structure Through Beauty" as well?
At any rate, it's what I'm attempting here. And I have to
confess a weakness for important-sounding yet hopelessly ironic
catch-phrases, and inverted ones at that ...
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 A
little back-history: back at the dawn of the Reagan era, The
Multiethnic Foundation, a band of Staten Island-based 'merry
pranksters', took their place among the left-leaning insurgency
of the time.
Embracing the post-Punk and New Wave ethic of DIY music and
media to propagandize The Message, the MEF (and its Pop-Punk
musical offspring, The Ethniks) self-published numerous tracts
and pamphlets "dedicated to a greater pan-cultural understanding".
My own design sensibility was formed while toiling for the
Foundation, and I'll be forever in its debt...
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