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This page: "Cover of a paper prom otion com m issioned by Fox River Paper Company. This piece exam ines the cycle of intolerance th a t characterizes mankind's relationship to the Earth.� Lana Rigsby/Troy S. Ford/M ichael Thede, designers; JoAnn Stone, w rite r; Gary Faye, photographer.

Below and right: "The logo and m aterials fo r this upscale A ustin restaurant w ere designed to com plem ent the collection of m odernist paintings show ­ cased there. A lim ited edition of silkscreened posters w as given to visitors during the opening celebration." Lana Rigsby, designer/illustrator.

U.S. Postal Museum grand opening announcement. "The in vitation folds out to a length of alm ost 60", and shows stamps (several of w hich are rare and valuable) reproduced 10x actual size. The piece is die-cut to scale and mailed in an oversized glassine envelope. Stamps are used to illu stra te the various exhibits, and a hand-applied 'Elvis' stamp accompanies party inform ation.

The Postal Service used a canceling insignia designed exclusively fo r this m ailing; a CNN News story about the Museum predicted invitations bearing the insignia w ill become valuable philatelic collectibles." M ichael Thede/ Lana Rigsby, designers; Elizabeth Little, w riter; The Pikes Peak Lithographing Co., printer; Hines Interests L.P., client.

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Left: Page from a 1994 calendar fo r the Russian Post Bank. Jelena Kitajeva, art d irector/d esign er/illu stra tor.

T-shirts fo r the Bolshoi Academic Theatre.

Jelena Kitajeva, art d irector/d esign er/ illustrator.

"Sasha," exhibition poster w on the C ritics' Award at the 1994 Brno Biennale. Andrey Logvin, Logvin Design, art director/designer.

Film poster fo r IMA-Press publishing house. Yuri Surkov, designer.

This page: Three spreads from Jelena Kitajeva's Suprematist Alphabet book, a trib u te to early Russian C on stru ctivist designers.

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n April 22, 1919. readers of Tbe /Xrlnu/ Neu\i learned that Old Westminster Church on Piety Hill, as the area was called lor its many churches, had been

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Gray, and architect Albert Kahn, as the Building Committee. Tbe Committee selected C. Howard Crane future designer of the Fox Theatre - as architect, and hired the local construction firm ol Walbridge 8l Aldinger as general contractors.

All that was needed now was money Fortunately, in 1919. Detroit's auto industiy was still in the first (lush ol its greatest days. One of those doing especially well was Horace Dodge, an enthusiastic devotee of orchestral music. Horace and Anna Thomson Dodge led a number of prominent Detroiters in contributing quickly and generously The initial $300,000 was raised within days. Gabrilowitsch himself contributed $5,000. and called the rapid fundraising a "miracle." "Could your city do the same?"

Gabrilowitsch challenged his friend. Sergei Rachmaninotf, who was then performing in Boston.

There is a stoiy.perhaps apocryphal, thatsays the first phase of Old Westminster's demolition began while a wedding took placeinside. In any event, thenewstructure was built on Old Westminster's existing foundation. The stage was 48 feet wide and 36 feet deep. The auditorium ceiling hung 65 feet over the 2.252-person seating space.

The exterior was simple, and modestly adorned. For the first time, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra had a home. Remarkably, it had taken just four months and 23 days to construct.

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