# sigridcalon

Happy birthday Ladislav Sutnar (1897–1976)! Born in present-day Czech Republic, the pioneer of information design worked as an art director for Sweet's Catalog Service for almost 20 years and authored many books about visual design principles. https://t.co/TWWXtzbIyz

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2021-11-09

Happy birthday to Victor Moscoso, one of the “Big Five” who produced rock posters, ads, and underground comix in the psychedelic era!
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​​Images: Victor Moscoso, handbills for performances at the Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, 1967.

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2021-07-29

Happy birthday Alphonse Mucha (1860–1939)! The Czech painter and graphic artist — whose style came to define the French Art Nouveau movement — was born 161 years ago today.
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​Image: Alphonse Mucha, Le Pater, Paris, 1899. See it in the OA: https://t.co/BfWnVGCL0r

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2021-07-24

Happy birthday, Giovanni Pintori (1912–1999)! On our blog: read about how the Italian graphic designer revisualized the typewriter in the 1950s. (​📷: Giovanni Pintori, pamphlets advertising a variety of Olivetti typewriter models, 1964–6.) https://t.co/qiZ8obNeK7

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2021-07-14

Happy birthday Armin Hofmann (1920–2020)! The eminent Swiss graphic designer and educator at the Basel School of Design played an instrumental role in developing the Swiss International Style.
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​Image: Armin Hofmann, Stadt Theater Basel poster, 1965.

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2021-06-30

Happy birthday to Dutch visual artist !
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Image: ​Sigrid Calon, Letters Become Patterns, Tilburg, 2014.

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2021-04-26

Happy birthday Herbert Matter (1907–1984)! The Swiss-born American designer and photographer was born 114 years ago today. ​​Pictured: a few examples of his work for Knoll, where he began as a design consultant in 1944 and spent 12 years building its visual identity.

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2021-04-25