If you were awarded the architectural commission for W’s presidential library, what would you design?
That’s the question that the Chronicle of Higher Education asked its readers, inviting them to send in design ideas on the backs of envelopes. This week, it published several of the approximately 120 entries submitted. As discussed in a short accompanying video, the submittals were “good, bad, serious, humorous, abstract, or really angry.”
My favorite? This mix of humor and anger, which extends beyond the proscribed confines of a single envelope back. As justification for this, its designer describes a discussion with the president, in which he “told me that he didn’t get to the White House by ‘following the rules’, so neither should I. Consider it a ’signing statement’.”
Do you have a favorite? Or an even better idea?
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Sounds like something that would be on the Colbert Report.
Hilarious! I’m not quite sure what materials would be there, though. Bush doesn’t exactly like to share information.
Both the Armstrong Williams Creative Writing Center and the Voldemort in 2012 Election Center made me laugh tea out my nose. Give a girl a little warning, won’t you? Oh, wait…you did. Sorry.
Seriously, that is genius.