Summer 2021
Jacqueline Casey. Science and design
Jacqueline Casey was instrumental in developing what became known as the MIT Style. By Elizabeth Resnick [EXTRACT]
When the United States entered the Second World War, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941, traditional roles for women changed forever as women began working outside the home while the men were away at war. Women who had held jobs before the war were now allowed to fill positions that were better paid than those previously available to them. This combination created more work opportunities for women well into the 1950s, and one young woman who directly benefitted from this was graphic designer Jacqueline S. Casey (1927-92) …
One of two poster designs – black on red background and vice-versa – for ‘MIT Open House’, 1974. 559 x 432mm.
Poster for gospel concert, ‘There is no greater love’, featuring the MIT Gospel Choir, 30 April, 1988. Casey loved experimenting with different printing techniques. Casey’s colleague Dietmar Winkler introduced her to the striking ‘split-fountain’ effects used in this poster. 560 x 880mm.
Photobooth self-portrait of Jacqueline S. Casey (right) with her former MassArt classmate and MIT colleague Muriel Cooper in Boston, Massachusetts, early 1960s. Muriel R. Cooper Collection, courtesy of Massachusetts College of Art and Design Archives.
Elizabeth Resnick, design educator, curator, writer, Massachusetts, US
Read the full version in Eye no. 101 vol. 26, 2021
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