by Marcia Morphy

• Bradbury Thompson created the irrepressibly jaunty “Love” U.S. postage stamp in 1984
  
  
• Cipe Pineles was one of the first female art directors with jobs at Glamour and Seventeen
  
  
• Saul Bass went “Hollywood” and designed sequences for Hitchcock’s Vertigo and Psycho
   

Read all about them because the “Who’s Who” of iconic 20th century graphic designers is now available online.

Graphic Design Archive is a dynamic new Web site featuring 30 individual designer archives that have been steadily assembled at Rochester Institute of Technology for the past 25 years. Administrated by RIT’s Cary Graphic Arts Collection, located in the Wallace Center, the online portal documents the most important repository of primary resources material available in graphic design.

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by William Dube

Venture Creations, Rochester Institute of Technology’s high technology incubator, will showcase the resources and services available to area entrepreneurs and start-ups at an open house 2-5 p.m. Dec. 8.

The event, located at 125 Tech Park Drive, will feature current incubator participants discussing their experiences, as well as experts who can answer questions on how to begin the process of starting a business.

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By Adam Dewitz

The ISO Technical Committee overseeing graphic technology standards (ISO TC 130) has put out a call for experts for a new task force investigating Carbon footprinting in the printing and publishing industry. The task force was formed at a meeting held on October 26th in Beijing.

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