Abstract
The Doomsday Clock has been many things to many people, but never the centerpiece of a quilt. Until now. Pam Collings, a member of the Sinnissippi Quilters Guild in Rockford, Illinois, featured the Clock as part of a project to interpret a public symbol using only black, white, and one other color.
It turns out that the Clock, with its ability to synthesize the complex global security picture, was an ideal subject for the quilt. “If you know anything about quilting you would recognize before midnight as being nice neat little log cabin blocks with the hearth [red center] clearly defined,” she explains. The area to the right of the Clock, her portrayal of after midnight, is a combination of black and white patterns combined in a more chaotic manner.
Collings loaned her creation to the Bulletin for display in a public meeting area that includes magazine covers from all 18 Clock changes since 1949 and original art from Clock designer Martyl.
Doomsday Clock inspires quilt design
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Bierut is a partner at the international design firm Pentagram, where he works to create identity design, environmental graphic design, and editorial design solutions. Bierut has won hundreds of design awards, including the AIGA Medal.
Finkel is founder and president of Chicago-based Prism Capital, a venture capital firm. Finkel currently serves on the Boards of Artromick, Inc. and SterilMed, Inc. and is a founder and former chair of the Illinois Venture Capital Association.
Schnieder is a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the school's Center for Environmental Science and Policy. Schneider has contributed in various capacities to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. His research interests include climate change and the impact of climate on food production.
Hansen, the director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, is regarded as among the most influential voices on climate science worldwide. A physicist, Hansen first testified before Congress on the warming effect of accumulating greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere in 1988.
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