Randall Johnson, 1915-2007, designed the original WSC cougar head logo in July of 1936 while a summer student employee at Washington State College. When WSC became Washington State University in 1959, Johnson proposed a logo redesign which was accepted with only one very slight change.
Johnson graduated from WSC in Fine Arts in 1938, and went on to become art director at the Washington Water Power Co. He retired in 1975, and spent the remainder of his life in the Spokane area. He sold his iconic cougar head logo design to WSU for one dollar in 1959.
A photocopied two-page weaving pattern for the WSU cougar head logo, plus two photographs of the finished design, as well as one page of correspondence about it.
Materials are retained in their original order.
This collection is open and available for research use.
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Randall Johnson WSU Cougar Logo Weaving Pattern, 1994 (Cage 5125)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
The materials were donated to the Washington State University Libraries’ Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections on October 7, 2019 by David Van Hoy. They had come direct from Randall Johnson to Mr. Hoy’s wife, Barbara, in 1994.
This collection was processed by University Archivist Mark O’English.
The materials were donated with an original signed Randall Johnson oil painting of the cougar head logo, which has been placed on display in the WSU Libraries’ administrative offices.
Randall Johnson KWSU Interview, 1992 May 29
Randall Johnson Notes of the Spokane Good Will Tour, 1960
Randall Johnson Drawings, 1978
Randall Johnson Drawing, 1992
Preliminary Guide to the Brewster Family Papers, 1878-1979
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