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Blockprint (1955-1968)

Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1960s. Contents include student artwork and photography, local and institutional news, editorials, comics, advertisements, and more. Higher resolution scans and the physical documents can be requested by contacting the Archives.

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Blockprint February 21, 1956

Students of RISD and RISD Archives

Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-60s. The February 21, 1956 issue features articles on Take-A-Break Weekend, a faculty profile, a student opinions column, and social events.
Blockprint February 13, 1956

Students of RISD and RISD Archives

Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-60s. The February 13, 1956 issue features articles on voting for the Take-A-Break Weekend Queen, film screenings around campus, Take-A-Break Weekend performers like the Dixieland Band and Richard Hayman, a sophomore winning a steak knife design competition, guest faculty member Kaj Franck, and other events and notices.
Blockprint February 6, 1956

Students of RISD and RISD Archives

Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-60s. The February 6, 1956 issue features articles on RISD professors, campus lectures, a faculty profile, a student opinions column, and social events.
Blockprint January 16, 1956

Students of RISD and RISD Archives

Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-60s. The January 16, 1956 issue features articles on nominating a Take-A-Break Queen, an upcoming talk by theater design curator Dr. William B. Van Lennep, an upcoming talk by RISD Museum director Dr. John Maxon, a past talk by James Sweeney, the student magazine "Spectrum," modern art criticism, a RISD student who was an Estonian refugee, and other events and notices.
Blockprint January 9, 1956

Students of RISD and RISD Archives

Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-60s. The January 9, 1956 issue is the first Blockprint issue of the year, and features articles on Take-A-Break Weekend, a grant from the Ford Foundation, new exhibitions at RISD Museum, an upcoming lecture by James Sweeney on modern art, Carr House, the new publication "Spectrum," modern art criticism, a new honor code at Brown, and other events and notices.
Blockprint December 12, 1955

Students of RISD and RISD Archives

Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-60s. The December 12, 1955 issue is the final Blockprint issue of the year, and features articles on campus lectures, faculty and student awards, student and faculty profiles, and social events.
Blockprint December 5, 1955

Students of RISD and RISD Archives

Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-60s. The December 5, 1955 issue features articles on computers, campus lectures, student exhibitions, a faculty profile, sporting events, and social events.
Blockprint November 21, 1955

Students of RISD and RISD Archives

Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-60s. The November 21, 1955 issue features articles on new faculty appointments, campus lectures, student exhibitions, censorship, a student profile, sporting events, and social events.
Blockprint November 14, 1955

Students of RISD and RISD Archives

Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-60s. The November 14, 1955 issue features articles on RISD's finances, campus lectures, a faculty profile, sporting events, and social events.
Blockprint November 7, 1955

Students of RISD and RISD Archives

Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-60s. The November 7, 1955 issue features articles on the new Brown President, campus lectures, student and faculty profiles, religious fervor in America, sporting events, and social events.
Blockprint October 31, 1955

Students of RISD and RISD Archives

Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-60s. The October 31, 1955 issue features articles on new museum exhibitions, campus lectures, student and faculty profiles, sporting events, and social events.
Blockprint October 24, 1955

Students of RISD and RISD Archives

Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-60s. The October 24, 1955 issue features articles on campus lectures, foreign study, student and faculty profiles, sporting events, and social events.
Blockprint October 17, 1955

Students of RISD and RISD Archives

Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-60s. The October 17, 1955 issue features articles on RISD's Sailing Team, a James Cassedy lecture on the United Nations, library updates, film series', Advertising Design instructor George N. Pappas, the price of college, a student profile of Peter Antanavicius, Blockprint's membership in the American Collegiate Press, a concert in the museum, and other events and notices.
Blockprint October 10, 1955

Students of RISD and RISD Archives

Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-60s. The October 10, 1955 issue features articles on the restoration of a museum fresco, a new radio series, the opening of the evening/night school, the RISD bookstore, sporting events, and social events.
Blockprint October 3, 1955

Students of RISD and RISD Archives

Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-60s. The October 3, 1955 issue features articles on the Museum of Modern Art purchasing a RISD student's work for their collection, the Student Council budget, a lecture on jazz by Boston priest Father Norman J. O'Conner, the start of Junior School classes, an Austrian sculptor named Erwin Hauer studyinga at RISD, RISD's purchase of 225 Benefit St., a new RISD Museum exhibition "Graphic Outlook," the increasing cost of college, and other events and notices.
Blockprint September 26, 1955

Students of RISD and RISD Archives

Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-60s. The September 26, 1955 issue features articles on faculty appointments, and convocation and orientation activities.
Blockprint September 20, 1955

Students of RISD and RISD Archives

Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-60s. The September 20, 1955 issue is the first of the new school year, and features articles on the resignation of the RISD President, a proposed new women's dormitory, new faculty appointments, navigating RISD's campus, a new Health Service clinic, the incoming freshman class, the purchase of 62 Waterman, and the film society schedule.
Blockprint May 23, 1955

Students of RISD and RISD Archives

Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-1960s. The May 23, 1955 issue is the last of the school year and features articles on the razing of the Textron Building, commencement, the apparel design show, faculty awards, the Spectrum publication, student activities, and sporting events.
Blockprint May 16, 1955

Students of RISD and RISD Archives

Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-1960s. The May 16, 1955 issue features articles on an "Architecture and the Arts" exhibit, student and faculty awards, the Portfolio publication, the RISD film society, Le Bal Masque, and sporting events.
Blockprint May 9, 1955

Students of RISD and RISD Archives

Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-1960s. The May 9, 1955 issue features articles on various social events, the publication of a student handbook, a lecture by Frank Lloyd Wright in Boston, and living under communist rule on the border of North Korea.
Blockprint May 2, 1955

Students of RISD and RISD Archives

Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-1960s. The May 2, 1955 issue features articles on various social events, an American Institute of Architects award, faculty talks, and the Class of 1879.
Blockprint April 25, 1955

Students of RISD and RISD Archives

Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-1960s. The April 25, 1955 issue features articles on various social events, a lecture on Industrial Design, an increase in applications to RISD, various sports associations, and a modern design exhibit, "Home Festival of '55.
Blockprint April 18, 1955

Students of RISD and RISD Archives

Blockprint was a student magazine published throughout the 1950s-1960s. The April 18, 1955 issue is the first printed issue of Blockprint, replacing a mimeographed news sheet that had circulated since 1952. Articles cover the death of a faculty member, RISD's first Fulbright Scholar, religions in Korea, and museum notes.