Design for Mister Rogers' Neighborhood at WQED

After the BFA he worked at WQED-TV in Pittsburgh doing design for the nascent Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.

Wikipedia places WQED / Mister Rogers work between BFA and MFA return.

College-adjacent television design is part of the full life history.

He was then asked back to Carnegie Mellon to finish the MFA.

Chapter placement: College · Pittsburgh work (Mid-1960s). This internal article expands the timeline card so “Read full article” never dead-ends on a teaser.

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Sources used for this article: Wikipedia.

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