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S. Neil Fujita
Sadamitsu "S. Neil" Fujita ("Foo-JEE-ta") (May 16, 1921 – October 23, 2010) was an American graphic designer known for his innovative book cover and record album designs. Early life Born in Waimea, Hawaii, to Japanese immigrants, Fujita attended a boarding school in Honolulu, where he adopted the name Neil. He enrolled in Chouinard Art Institute, but his studies were interrupted by World War II and his forced relocation in 1942 (following the signing of Executive Order 9066), first to the Pomona Assembly Center outside Los Angeles and later to the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming. During his confinement, he worked as the art director of the camp newspaper, the ''Heart Mountain Sentinel''. He enlisted in the United States Army on January 1, 1943, and served in an anti-tank unit with the 442nd Infantry Regiment, a segregated regiment of Japanese American volunteers and draftees that became the most decorated unit in the war. He was assigned to combat duty in Euro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. Typically deployed in symmetric pairs, an individual bracket may be identified as a 'left' or 'right' bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. Specific forms of the mark include parentheses (also called "rounded brackets"), square brackets, curly brackets (also called 'braces'), and angle brackets (also called 'chevrons'), as well as various less common pairs of symbols. As well as signifying the overall class of punctuation, the word "bracket" is commonly used to refer to a specific form of bracket, which varies from region to region. In most English-speaking countries, an unqualified word "bracket" refers to the parenthesis (round bracket); in the United States, the square bracket. Glossary of mathematical sym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Golden (graphic Designer)
William Golden (March 31, 1911 – October 23, 1959) was an American graphic designer. He is best known for his work at Columbia Broadcasting System, starting in the CBS Radio promotion department (before broadcast television existed) and culminating in his tenure as creative director of advertising and sales promotion for CBS Television Network. Golden gained a reputation for always striving for a perfect, simple solution to the problem at hand, producing an original and distinguished design to convey the message. Biography William Golden was born in lower Manhattan on March 31, 1911, the youngest of twelve children. His only formal schooling was at the Vocational School for Boys, where he learned photoengraving and the basics of commercial design. Upon his graduation from school in 1928, the seventeen-year-old Golden left home and moved to Los Angeles to work for a photoengraving and lithography firm, and while in Los Angeles he also worked in the art department of the ''Exa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parsons The New School For Design
Parsons School of Design, known colloquially as Parsons, is a private art and design college located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. Founded in 1896 after a group of progressive artists broke away from established Manhattan art academies in protest of limited creative autonomy, Parsons is one of the oldest schools of art and design in New York. Parsons is consistently ranked one of the best institutions for art and design education in both the United States and the world. The school has produced cutting-edge scholarship for over a century, and it continues to do so through its 41 university labs and research centers. Parsons was the first to offer programs in fashion design, interior design, advertising, graphic design, and lighting design. Parsons became the first American school to found a satellite school abroad when it established the Paris Ateliers in 1921. It remains the first and only private art and design school to affiliate with a private nation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pratt Institute
Pratt Institute is a private university with its main campus in Brooklyn, New York (state), New York. It has a satellite campus in Manhattan and an extension campus in Utica, New York at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute. The school was founded in 1887 with programs primarily in engineering, architecture, and fine arts. Comprising six schools, the institute is primarily known for its programs in Pratt Institute School of Architecture, architecture, interior design, and industrial design. History Inception Pratt Institute was founded in 1887 by American industrialist Charles Pratt, who was a successful businessman and oil tycoon and was one of the wealthiest men in the history of Brooklyn. Pratt was an early pioneer of the oil industry in the United States and was the founder of Astral Oil Works based in the Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Greenpoint section of Brooklyn which was a leader in replacing whale oil with petroleum or natural oil. In 1867, Pratt established Charles P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of The Arts (Philadelphia)
The University of the Arts (UArts) is a private art university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Its campus makes up part of the Avenue of the Arts in Center City, Philadelphia. Dating back to the 1870s, it is one of the oldest schools of art or music in the United States. The university is composed of two colleges and two Divisions: the College of Art, Media & Design; the College of Performing Arts; the Division of Liberal Arts; and the Division of Continuing Studies. It is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. In addition, the School of Music is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music. History The university was created in 1985 by a merger between the Philadelphia College of the Performing Arts and the Philadelphia College of Art, two schools that trace their origins to the 1870s. In 1870, the Philadelphia Musical Academy was created. In 1877, the Philadelphia Conservatory of Music was founded. After graduating from South Phil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pigeon Feathers
''Pigeon Feathers'' is an early collection of short stories by John Updike, published in 1962. It includes the stories "Wife-Wooing" and " A&P", which have both been anthologized. " A&P" and the title story, "Pigeon Feathers", were both adapted into films (see below). List of stories * "Walter Briggs" * "The Persistence of Desire" * "Still Life" * "A Sense of Shelter" * "Dear Alexandros" * "Wife-Wooing" * "Pigeon Feathers". * "Home" * "Archangel" * "You'll Never Know, Dear, How Much I Love You" * "The Astronomer" * " A&P" * "The Doctor's Wife" * "Lifeguard" * "The Crow in the Woods" * "The Blessed Man of Boston, My Grandmother's Thimble, and Fanning Island" * "Blocked dirt, creeperslaying, My sword's Hilt, and Nether Island" * "Packed Dirt, Churchgoing, A Dying Cat, A Traded Car" Film adaptations The short story "Pigeon Feathers" was adapted into a film and presented in 1988 on the Public Broadcasting American Playhouse series. It was directed by Sharron Miller and starre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Godfather (novel)
''The Godfather'' is a crime novel by American author Mario Puzo. Originally published in 1969 by G. P. Putnam's Sons, the novel details the story of a fictional Mafia family in New York City (and Long Island), headed by Vito Corleone, the Godfather. The novel covers the years 1945 to 1955 and includes the back story of Vito Corleone from early childhood to adulthood. The first in a series of novels, ''The Godfather'' is noteworthy for introducing Italian words like ''consigliere'', ''caporegime'', ''Cosa Nostra'', and ''omertà'' to an English-speaking audience. It inspired a 1972 film of the same name. Two film sequels, including new contributions by Puzo himself, were made in 1974 and 1990. Summary The Corleone family, one of the Five Families of the New York Mafia, fights the other four families in a brutal war in the years after World War II. After Don Vito Corleone is shot by men working for drug kingpin Virgil "The Turk" Sollozzo, two of Corleone's sons, Santino (Sonny ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
In Cold Blood
''In Cold Blood'' is a non-fiction novel by American author Truman Capote, first published in 1966. It details the 1959 murders of four members of the Clutter family in the small farming community of Holcomb, Kansas. Capote learned of the quadruple murder before the killers were captured, and he traveled to Kansas to write about the crime. He was accompanied by his childhood friend and fellow author Harper Lee, and they interviewed residents and investigators assigned to the case and took thousands of pages of notes. Killers Richard Hickock and Perry Smith were arrested six weeks after the murders and later executed by the state of Kansas. Capote ultimately spent six years working on the book. ''In Cold Blood'' was an instant success and is the second-best-selling true crime book in history, behind Vincent Bugliosi's ''Helter Skelter'' (1974) about the Charles Manson murders. Some critics consider Capote's work the original non-fiction novel, although other writers had alr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruder Finn
Ruder Finn is a public relations firm with headquarters in the United States and China. It is a large privately owned communications agency, serving corporations, governments, and non-profits. It also has offices in San Francisco, London, Washington, D.C., Singapore, and several India, Indian metro areas including the National Capital Region (India), National Capital Region. History Ruder Finn was established in 1948 in New York by David Finn and Bill Ruder. The firms's first client was country singer Perry Como; its success at promoting Como attracted more clients in show business, including Dinah Shore and Jack Lemmon. Ruder Finn eventually expanded to represent consumer product companies and government agencies. In the 1960s through late 1990s, while representing long-time client Philip Morris USA, Philip Morris (now Altria), Ruder Finn was instrumental in crafting the public relations campaign that disputed the evidence tobacco smoking is hazardous to health. In 1997, Ruder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mingus Ah Um
''Mingus Ah Um'' is a studio album by American jazz musician Charles Mingus which was released in October 1959 by Columbia Records. It was his first album recorded for Columbia. The cover features a painting by S. Neil Fujita. The title is a corruption of an imaginary Latin declension. It is common for Latin students to memorize Latin adjectives by first saying the masculine nominative (usually ending in " ''-us''"), then the feminine nominative (" ''-a''"), and finally the neuter nominative singular (" ''-um''")—implying a transformation of his name, ''Mingus, Minga, Mingum''. The album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2013. Composition ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD'' calls this album "an extended tribute to ancestors" (and awards it one of their rare crowns), and Mingus's musical forebears figure largely throughout. "Better Git It In Your Soul" is inspired by gospel singing and preaching of the sort that Mingus would have heard as a child growing up in Watts, Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Modern Jazz Perspective
''Modern Jazz Perspective'' is an album by American jazz trumpeter Donald Byrd and saxophonist Gigi Gryce, with featured vocalist Jackie Paris, recorded in 1957 for the Columbia label. Reception Track listing ''All compositions by Gigi Gryce except as indicated'' # "Medley: Early Morning Blues (Cy Coleman, Joseph McCarthy)/ Now, Don't You Know" (Gryce, as "Lee Sears")- 3:45 # "Early Bird" (Donald Byrd) - 7:31 # "Elgy" (Byrd) - 6:28 # "Stablemates" (Benny Golson) - 4:59 # "Steppin' Out" - 5:30 # "Social Call" - 4:43 # "An Evening in Casablanca" - 5:05 # "Satellite" - 4:26 *Recorded in New York City on August 30, 1957 (tracks 6-8), September 3, 1957 (tracks 1-3), and September 5, 1957 (tracks 4 & 5) Personnel *Gigi Gryce – alto saxophone *Donald Byrd – trumpet *Jimmy Cleveland – trombone (tracks 4 & 5) *Julius Watkins – French horn (tracks 4 & 5) *Sahib Shihab – baritone saxophone (tracks 4 & 5) *Wynton Kelly – piano *Wendell Marshall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Time Out (album)
''Time Out'' is a studio album by the American jazz group the Dave Brubeck Quartet, released in 1959 on Columbia Records. Recorded at Columbia's 30th Street Studio in New York City, it is based upon the use of time signatures that were unusual for jazz such as , and . The album is a subtle blend of cool and West Coast jazz. The album peaked at No. 2 on the ''Billboard'' pop albums chart, and was the first jazz album to sell a million copies. The single "Take Five" off the album was also the first jazz single to sell one million copies. By 1963, the record had sold 500,000 units, and in 2011 it was certified double platinum by the RIAA, signifying over two million records sold. The album was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2009. The album was selected, in 2005, for preservation in the United States National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Background The album was intended as an experime ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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