Undulating metal planes shout "View It!" from a cafeteria wall. Richly hued, monumental square murals pulse their welcome in a grand lobby. A multitude of fine works on paper awaits contemplation in the library. A titan sculpture of sinuous steel beckons visitors onto campus. Numerous galleries and exhibition spaces provide opportunities for art appreciation and critique. These pieces and venues, and many more, find their homes throughout the cohesive fabric of patterned brick that makes up Rochester Institute of Technology's unique Rochester, NY campus. Now, for the first time, the history, artists, and significance of these RIT artworks are revealed in View It!—the guidebook and walking art tour. The publication of this guide to the art and architecture on campus, coincides with RIT's 175th anniversary. RIT has many reasons to celebrate this important milestone, and among them is its artistic heritage, to which the university has always been committed. The artworks illustrated here, as well as others too numerous to include, serve as important sources of inspiration for students, faculty, and the entire campus. Join the RIT community in appreciating its public art through this guide. Explore and View It!

View It! The Art and Architecture of RIT

Simmons, Becky

Wetherald, Houghton

RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press

In June 2000 the RIT Cary Graphic Arts Collection hosted over 400 guests for a highly successful conference, exhibition, and gala in honor of Bernard C. Middleton's contributions to the art of bookbinding, and RIT's acquisition of Mr. Middleton's outstanding book collection. Some of the world's foremost scholars and bookbinders presented a series of stimulating talks and detailed demonstrations at the event. This publication gathers the content of the six conference lectures into a fine volume with full-color illustrations. Contents: Deborah Evetts, "Coptic Bindings at the Morgan Library: Their History and Preservation" Bernard Middleton, M.B.E., F.S.A., "Facsimile Printing for Antiquarian Books" Philip Smith, M.B.E., "Four Levels of Book Art Making" Marianne Tidcombe, "Women Bookbinders in Britain before the First World War" Peter Waters, "The Preservation of Library Materials in the Electronic Age" Mirjam Foot, "Sixteenth Century Influences on English Bookbinding"

Bookbinding 2000 Proceedings

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

As printing from movable type was perfected in the fifteenth century, the mysteries of its practice were guarded by a privileged few. The rapid spread of the new art depended on the reliable mechanism for transferring knowledge. By the end of the seventeenth century, however, the pioneers of manufacturing technology and scientific inquiry were prying away at trade secrecy. This book shows the history of printing manuals from 1683 to the end of the nineteenth century, including some of the rarest in existence from the Cary Collection at Rochester institute of Technology.

PRINTER'S MANUAL: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY.|THE

Unknown, Author

Ismar David (1910–1996), an artist of extraordinary range and ability, mastered a variety of media during the course of his long career in Berlin, Jerusalem, and New York. In tribute to his achievements, RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press has now published The Work of Ismar David—the first comprehensive volume on the designer’s oeuvre—that includes vivid reproductions of his book and type design, illustration, calligraphy, and architectural adornment. Content for the book was selected from the extensive Ismar David Archive, held in the Melbert B. Cary, Jr. Graphic Arts Collection at Rochester Institute of Technology.

The Work of Ismar David

Arts & Photography

Helen Brandshaft

Individual Artists

The Uncommon Denominator: A Tribute to Richard Hirsch presents a spectrum of aesthetic eloquence and technical mastery in the ceramic arts. Originally published to coincide with a traveling exhibition, this catalog celebrates the career of Hirsch through the work of a selection of his alumni. He has achieved professional recognition both as a ceramic artist and teacher. During his teaching career, which has spanned over thirty years, he has been a faculty member of two prominent craft programs: the Program in Artisanry at Boston University, and currently, the School for American Crafts at Rochester Institute of Technology. Many of Hirsch's former students have established their own outstanding careers in the contemporary ceramics field. Represented in The Uncommon Denominator are notable examples of the renaissance in utilitarian pottery, continued interest in the vessel aesthetic, and the investigation of both figurative and abstract sculpture.

The Uncommon Denominator: A Tribute to Richard Hirsch

Hirsch, Richard

DePaolo, E. Blaise

Sweet, Marvin

This book chronicles all aspects of Sentinel’s inception. Essays by Jim Yarrington, director of RIT campus planning, describe the sculpture’s place in RIT’s unique architectural environment. Sam Hunter, professor emeritus at Princeton University Department of Art and Archaeology, contributes an authoritative essay on the influence of Albert Paley’s work in the context of art history. The book also includes a candid interview with the artist himself, as he discusses his thought process and the engineering decisions that went into the design of the Sentinel. Photographs of the sculpture’s construction are woven throughout the text as compelling documents of its complex installation, culminating with stunning images of the finished artwork.

Sentinel: The Design, Fabrication, and Installation of the Monumental Sculpture by Albert Paley at Rochester Institute of Technology

James Yarrington

The evolution of Eastman Kodak Company’s pension investment program from the inception of its pension plan in 1928 through 2004. The author, Russell L. (“Rusty”) Olson, a consultant on institutional investing, retired in 2000 as director of pension investments, worldwide, for Eastman Kodak Company. Olson had overseen Kodak’s pension funds since 1972. Over the 1980s and 1990s (and through 2004) Kodak’s pension fund was one of the best performing pension funds in the United States. Kodak made contributions to its pension fund in only two of the 22 years, 1983-2004, and it is one of the best-funded corporate pension plans in the country.

The School of Hard Knocks: The Evolution of Pension Investing at Eastman Kodak

Business & Money

Russell L. Olson

Biography & History

Print is so familiar that it remains invisible to the average person. Frank Cost, associate dean of the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences at Rochester Institute of Technology and co-director of the RIT Printing Industry Center, has often wished for a small, fun-to-read book to give to people who were thinking about the world of print for the first time. Most of the available introductory books concentrate heavily on the technology, but say little about how people actually use print, let alone why. The New Medium of Print is a new kind of book: it provides an introduction to the underlying systems for the creation and distribution of print, as well as an exploration of its many and varied contemporary uses. This book is the first in the Printing Industry Center Series: a co-publication of RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press and RIT Printing Industry Center.

The New Medium of Print: Material Communication in the Internet Age (Printing Industry Center)

Frank Cost

History & Criticism

An exhibiton of posters from the collection of Mark and Maura Resnick.

The American Image (U.S. Posters from the 19th to the 21st Century)

Mark Resnick

It Isn't Just Business, It's Personal: How Paetec Thrived When All the Big Telecoms Couldn't

When you put people first, you win. When you operate by the highest principles, you'll see the results in the bottom line. When you put a caring heart into how you operate, in your organization and your community, you build the only true foundation of long-term success. This is how PAETEC Communications has enjoyed an astonishing rise during an era when telecommunications has become an ethical, legal and financial quagmire. In this book, CEO Arunas Chesonis and his people tell how, by following a handful of basic ethical principles, their company has emerged as an example of how to succeed in the twenty-first century, not just in telecom, but in any industry.

It Isn't Just Business, It's Personal: How PAETEC Thrived When All the Big Telecoms Couldn't

Arunas A. Chesonis and David Dorsey

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