One Million
Abrams Image, 2009
Paperback, 224 pages, $15.95

Originally published in 1970, One Million was out of print for some time until its author, the highly esteemed New Yorker editor and columnist Hendrik Hertzberg, was prompted by fans to create a new edition. It is designed by the New York-based Think Studio, whose principals are CCA alumni John Clifford (Graphic Design 1997) and Herb Thornby (Graphic Design 1998). Their design was included in the prestigious AIGA 50 Books/50 Covers competition in 2010. The project was inspired by the author's journalistic impulse to try to make the newsworthy, large, and rather abstract number "one million" more concrete for people. In the book, each of the 200 pages features five thousand dots, and on each page, a few of the dots are called out from their place in numerical order with a little piece of statistical information, cumulatively bringing the concept home.

Renowned San Francisco retailer Gump’s will celebrate its 150th anniversary by opening its doors March 31 for Mirror Mirror, a gala celebration to benefit California College of the Arts (CCA). The festive event features a dinner party and an auction of one-of-a-kind mirrors created by 30 leading artists, architects, and designers, including designer Yves Béhar, architect Mark Jensen, artist Raymond Saunders, and interior designer Kelly Wearstler (see complete list below).

For Lia Tjandra (Graphic Design 1997), now art director at the University of California Press, professional success has been a group effort. While pursuing her CCA degree, she was inspired by professors such as Martin Venezky and Bob Aufuldish. "Bob's a great person to know. I'll be forever grateful to him." She is grateful as well to Jennifer Sonderby, her former boss at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, for lessons on strategic thinking and different ways to make a designer's voice heard. She credits Steve Renick, who was art director at UC Press for 20 years and taught a book design course at CCA, for sparking her interest in that field. In fact, as she looks back on her 15-year career, there's only one person Tjandra forgets to praise: herself.

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