JED5: Journal of the College of Environmental Design, University of California Berkeley (January 1967)
Fifth installment of an irregularly issued journal produced by the students of the College of Environmental Design, University of California Berkeley. Volume 2, number 2 published in January, 1967. Principal editorial and graphic design credits assigned to Jon Dieges, the founding editor, and Peter Stevans, with assistance from David Sierens and Nancy Hand. 8vo (11” x 8.5”), unpaginated but 35 pages, pictorial stapled wrappers. Text interspersed with images printed on various color papers. For the present issue, the students gained permission to transcribe and publish Buckminster Fuller's address at the 2nd annual meeting of IDSA (Industrial Designers Society of America) a few months earlier, where he was presented with an Achievement award. What is fascinating about this document is the way it is illustrated--the countercultural, psychedelic but still generally upbeat vibe locates the work proximate to the Summer of Love, when change through design still seemed a real possibility, a year or two before things took a darker turn at the campuses of Berkeley, Columbia, and MIT. JED5 speaks to Fuller's relevance to the youth culture and protest movement of the mid-60's; its visual communication provides him a visceral bona fide as a topical thinker if not something of a superhero. A highly scarce item--outside of the Berkeley library only a couple of examples in the World Catalog, and no examples other than this one that I've encountered in the market. In remarkably good original condition, with only minor bumping to the wrappers and the name Buckminster Fuller and a previous owner written in ink on the cover.
Fifth installment of an irregularly issued journal produced by the students of the College of Environmental Design, University of California Berkeley. Volume 2, number 2 published in January, 1967. Principal editorial and graphic design credits assigned to Jon Dieges, the founding editor, and Peter Stevans, with assistance from David Sierens and Nancy Hand. 8vo (11” x 8.5”), unpaginated but 35 pages, pictorial stapled wrappers. Text interspersed with images printed on various color papers. For the present issue, the students gained permission to transcribe and publish Buckminster Fuller's address at the 2nd annual meeting of IDSA (Industrial Designers Society of America) a few months earlier, where he was presented with an Achievement award. What is fascinating about this document is the way it is illustrated--the countercultural, psychedelic but still generally upbeat vibe locates the work proximate to the Summer of Love, when change through design still seemed a real possibility, a year or two before things took a darker turn at the campuses of Berkeley, Columbia, and MIT. JED5 speaks to Fuller's relevance to the youth culture and protest movement of the mid-60's; its visual communication provides him a visceral bona fide as a topical thinker if not something of a superhero. A highly scarce item--outside of the Berkeley library only a couple of examples in the World Catalog, and no examples other than this one that I've encountered in the market. In remarkably good original condition, with only minor bumping to the wrappers and the name Buckminster Fuller and a previous owner written in ink on the cover.
Fifth installment of an irregularly issued journal produced by the students of the College of Environmental Design, University of California Berkeley. Volume 2, number 2 published in January, 1967. Principal editorial and graphic design credits assigned to Jon Dieges, the founding editor, and Peter Stevans, with assistance from David Sierens and Nancy Hand. 8vo (11” x 8.5”), unpaginated but 35 pages, pictorial stapled wrappers. Text interspersed with images printed on various color papers. For the present issue, the students gained permission to transcribe and publish Buckminster Fuller's address at the 2nd annual meeting of IDSA (Industrial Designers Society of America) a few months earlier, where he was presented with an Achievement award. What is fascinating about this document is the way it is illustrated--the countercultural, psychedelic but still generally upbeat vibe locates the work proximate to the Summer of Love, when change through design still seemed a real possibility, a year or two before things took a darker turn at the campuses of Berkeley, Columbia, and MIT. JED5 speaks to Fuller's relevance to the youth culture and protest movement of the mid-60's; its visual communication provides him a visceral bona fide as a topical thinker if not something of a superhero. A highly scarce item--outside of the Berkeley library only a couple of examples in the World Catalog, and no examples other than this one that I've encountered in the market. In remarkably good original condition, with only minor bumping to the wrappers and the name Buckminster Fuller and a previous owner written in ink on the cover.
