“In a May 1971 memo, President Richard Nixon directed the heads of all federal departments and agencies to consider how the arts and artists might ‘be of help to your agency and to its programs.’"
1972 - “The Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities . . . will sponsor annual design assemblies for federal administrators and artists ."
“More than 1,000 federal officials and designers attended the first Federal Design Assembly in April 1973.”
"I believe that we all can find that the arts have a great deal more to contribute to what we in government are seeking to accomplish and that this will be good for the arts and good for the country.“ - P r e s i d e n t R i c h a r d N i x o n
“Critique was not limited. Ultimately, more than 45 government agencies, including NASA and the U.S. Postal Service, revamped their graphics under this mandate.”
References • National Endowment for the Arts (1972) Setting the Standard: The NEA Initiates the Federal Design Improvement Program - See more at: http://arts.gov/article/setting-standard-nea-initiates-federal-design- improvement- program#sthash.NX1cBjXe.dpufhttp://arts.gov/article/setting- standard-nea-initiates-federal-design-improvement-program
