Blockprint was the longest-running student newspaper at RISD, with publication dates from 1955 until 1968. It began as a mimeographed news sheet in 1952 and eventually was published as a newspaper in April 1955, before transforming into a compact news magazine in December 1965.
Throughout Blockprint’s run, the publication offered robust coverage of on- and off-campus news, including major events in RISD’s history such as the construction of the Quad and general campus expansion; the transformation of RISD from a technical school to an accredited, residential college; annual Take-A-Break Weekend celebrations; Civil Rights and anti-Vietnam War activism; and visits to RISD by famous artists and designers such as Marcel Breuer, Charles Eames, and Richard Neutra. Blockprint also often featured regular columnists, letters to the editor, student creative work, an events calendar, advertisements, and more.
Higher resolution scans and the physical documents can be requested by contacting the Archives.
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Blockprint October 3, 1960
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The October 3, 1960 issue features articles on the European Honors Program's first students, the departure of William D. Fales, student life, student club news, and various lectures and events around campus; student editorials and creative writing.
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Blockprint September 26, 1960
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The September 26, 1960 issue features articles on club night, a faculty departure, the Woodrow Wilson national Fellowship program, student life, student club news, and various lectures and events around campus; student editorials and creative writing.
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Blockprint September 19, 1960
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The September 19, 1960 issue is the first of the academic year and features a new masthead and articles on staff appointments, a freshman dance, the dean's list, students selected for the new European Honors Program, faculty appointments, RISD President John Frazier's welcome speech, dormitory heads, student life, student club news, and various lectures and events around campus; student editorials and creative writing.
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Blockprint May 23, 1960
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The May 23, 1960 issue is the last of the year and features articles on the Class of 1960's apparel design collection, staff appointments, freshman class election results, the Newport Jazz Festival, study abroad fellowships, student life, student club news, and various lectures and events around campus; student editorials and creative writing.
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Blockprint May 16, 1960
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The May 16, 1960 issue features articles on the Class of 1960's apparel design collection, the final student council meeting of the year, a faculty leave of absence, a field trip to view an early computer, student life, student club news, and various lectures and events around campus; student editorials and creative writing.
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Blockprint May 9, 1960
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The May 9, 1960 issue features articles on the student council, the election of dorm leaders, commencement plans, a hoe-down, JAMATANEXHIBITION, a RISD Museum exhibition on American artists, student life, student club news, and various lectures and events around campus; student editorials and creative writing.
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Blockprint May 2, 1960
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The May 2, 1960 issue features articles on an industrial design seminar, the student council, the Newman Club, a large sculpture casting, a student exhibition, student life, student club news, and various lectures and events around campus; student editorials and creative writing.
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Blockprint April 25, 1960
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The April 25, 1960 issue features articles on the approval of a European Extension School in Italy, textile department, collections, class officer elections, the drama club's production of "Antigone," refugee aid, student life, student club news, and various lectures and events around campus; student editorials and creative writing.
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Blockprint April 18, 1960
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The April 18, 1960 issue, in addition to containing typical news and editorial pieces, also contains a section entitled "Blockhead" in belated celebration of April Fools Day. Actual news articles are on class officer nominations, an upcoming lecture by ceramicist Edward Arthur Lane, the Rhode Island Arts Festival, jazz, and various lectures and events around campus; student editorials and creative writing.
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Blockprint April 11, 1960
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The April 11, 1960 issue features articles on a demonstration against segregation, a student council meeting, faculty news, the junior school, the Newman Club, a Richard Neutra lecture to the Architectural Society, the five year anniversary of Blockprint, an apparel field trip, museum news, a student exhibition, student club news, and various lectures and events around campus; student editorials and creative writing.
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Blockprint March 21, 1960
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The March 21, 1960 issue features articles on student council elections, an Industrial Design Society dance, a new RISD radio program, an upcoming lecture by Richard Neutra, the formation of a socialist group at Brown, a speech by actress Helen Hayes at Pembroke (Brown), the new Blockprint editorial staff, museum news, student life, student club news, and various lectures and events around campus; student editorials and creative writing.
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Blockprint March 14, 1960
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The March 14, 1960 issue features articles on an Architectural Society discussion of the new student dorms, nominations for Student Council, the new head of Homer Hall, a textile department exhibition, a metal sculpture show at Providence Art Club, RISD Museum news, an art history party, student life, student club news, and various lectures and events around campus; student editorials and creative writing.
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Blockprint March 7, 1960
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Blockprint was a student newspaper published throughout the 1950s-60s. The March 7, 1960 issue features articles on a television program on architecture, a meeting of house councils, the formation of a jazz society, the junior school, student life, student club news, and various lectures and events around campus; student editorials and creative writing.
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Blockprint February 29, 1960
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-60s. The February 29, 1960 issue features articles on a lecture by Alexander Nesbitt comparing teaching in Europe vs. the US, a Philip Johnson lecture at Brown, the RISD Museum's acquisition of a Spanish head sculpture, an organ concert, student life, student club news, and various lectures and events around campus; student editorials, including the final Unadjusted Man column, and creative writing.
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Blockprint February 23, 1960
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-60s. The February 23, 1960 issue features articles on Take-A-Break Weekend, including the TAB Queen, the variety show, Kai Winding and Urbie Green's performances at TAB; articles on a RISD Museum exhibit on bronze sculptures, student life, student club news, and various lectures and events around campus; student editorials and creative writing.
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Blockprint February 15, 1960
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-60s. The February 15, 1960 issue features articles on Take-A-Break Weekend, Kai Winding and Urbie Green's upcoming performances at TAB, a RISD Museum sculpture series, industrial design department news, a Newman Club meeting on alcohol, student life, student club news, and various lectures and events around campus; student editorials and creative writing.
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Blockprint February 8, 1960
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-60s. The February 8, 1960 issue features articles on an increase in tuition and housing, faculty promotions, the drama club, freshman class officers, an Italian course at Brown, Take-A-Break Weekend, student life, student club news, and various lectures and events around campus; student editorials and creative writing.
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Blockprint January 18, 1960
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-60s. The January 18, 1960 issue features articles on the student council, a meeting to discuss a RISD student center in Europe, an upcoming election of freshman class officers, interfaith dating, a Turkish travel recollection from Edna Lawrence, student life, student club news, and various lectures and events around campus.
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Blockprint January 11, 1960
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-60s. The January 11, 1960 issue is the first of the year and features articles on a Newman Club discussion on love and marriage, spring enrollment, student nominations for the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship, the Scandinavian Seminar, study abroad, a MOMA exhibit featuring a faculty member's work, student life, student club news, and various lectures and events around campus; student editorials and creative writing.
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Blockprint December 14, 1959
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-60s. The December 14, 1959 issue is the last of the year and features articles on the nomination of freshman class officers, the industrial design department, Christmas, painting at RISD, student life, student club news, and various lectures and events around campus; student editorials and creative writing.
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Blockprint December 7, 1959
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-60s. The December 7, 1959 issue features articles on Le Bal Masque, a possible European campus, military recruitment, new RISD trustees, an upcoming lecture by Margaret Israel, spring fashions, RISD Museum exhibitions on Edward Hopper and English drawings, student life, student club news, and various lectures and events around campus; student editorials and creative writing.
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Blockprint November 23, 1959
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-60s. The November 23, 1959 issue features articles on the drama club's production of "The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles", a joint RISD and Brown Newman Club meeting, the MOMA expansion, a lecture by Sibyl Moholy-Nagy on Brazilia and Machu Picchu, student life, student club news, and various lectures and events around campus; student editorials and creative writing.
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Blockprint November 16, 1959
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-60s. The November 16, 1959 issue features articles on a lecture on Chinese painting by Ginpoh King, the industrial design department, an upcoming lecture by Sibyl Moholy-Nagy, student life, a visit to the newly-opened Guggenheim Museum, an organ concert, the upcoming drama club production, student club news, and various lectures and events around campus; student editorials and creative writing.
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Blockprint November 9, 1959
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-60s. The November 9, 1959 issue features articles on an Architectural Society lecture by John M. Johansen, an industrial design conference in New York, student club news, and various lectures and events around campus; several editorials addressing the faculty exhibition criticism in Blockprint.
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Blockprint November 2, 1959
Students of RISD and RISD Archives
Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-60s. The November 2, 1959 issue features articles on the appointment of Leonore A. Gerlach as a consultant to the RI Dept. of Education, a RISD Museum exhibit on Newport fashion, the Newman club's "Dance macabre", an Architectural Society lecture on John M. Johanson, "angry young men" around campus, a faculty exhibition, student club news, and various lectures and events around campus; student editorials and creative writing.