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Kewaunee Enterprise
Kewaunee, Wisconsin
Thursday, August 5, 1971

Happy birthday Jack Lenor Larsen. The highly regarded textile designer, famous for modernist textiles designed to complement modernist architecture and for a wide range of clients including Frank Lloyd Wright, Marilyn Monroe, and Pan Am Airlines, was born today in 1927.

Happy birthday Martin Lambie-Nairn. The innovative graphic designer & creative director, famous for his work in television, including iconic brand identities, integration of early computer & animation technologies, & creating the show Splitting Image, was born today in 1945.#BBC

Happy birthday Reynold Ruffins. The award-winning illustrator, artist, graphic designer & educator, most famous for co-founding Pushpin Studios, and who also illustrated dozens of children's books & had numerous exhibitions of his paintings, was born today in 1930. #illustration

Happy birthday Irene Rice Pereira. The artist, writer & educator, famous for her non-objective paintings & advancing modernism in the US through teaching, writing lectures and helping found the Design Laboratory, modeled after the Bauhaus, was born today in 1902. #modernism

The Life
Berwyn, Illinois
Sunday, August 4, 1991

Happy birthday Charley Harper. The American artist & illustrator, known for his distinctly graphic "minimal realist" wildlife images, was born today in 1922. #illustration

Happy birthday Hedda Sterne. The Romanian-born American artist, famous for being a member of the New York School of painters & for her Surrealist & Abstract Expressionist work, often of the built environment & machinery, was born today in 1910.

Happy birthday Martina “Tine” Baanders. The Dutch graphic designer, illustrator, educator et al., known for her book covers, her work for art magazine Wendingen, & her prolific output that includes everything from certificates, posters & logos to murals, was born today in 1890.

Happy birthday Tony Gleaton. The well-traveled and inquisitive photographer, best known for multicultural images of the Southwest, notably black cowboys, was born today in 1948. #photography

Happy birthday Guillermo Mordillo. The widely popular artist, famous for humorous, wordless cartoons, most often depicting relationships and sports, which were later animated and also collected in anthologies, was born today in 1932.

Conflating the whats and the whys with the hows.
—D1!

#SundayComics #GraphicDesignComic

The Ottawa Journal
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Saturday, August 3, 1968

Happy birthday Dan Reisinger. The resilient artist and graphic designer, remembered for a long career and a varied body of work, including logos, packaging design, posters, IDF medals, drawings, paintings, and sculptures, was born today in 1934.

Happy birthday Natalia Pinus. The Russian painter, most known for propaganda posters, was born today in 1901.

Happy birthday William E. Pajaud. The graphic designer, artist & printmaker, known for his Jazz-inspired paintings & for curating one of the most significant African American art collections in the world, was born today in 1925.

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Star Tribune
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Sunday, August 2, 1987

Happy birthday Kate Steinitz. The German artist, designer & art historian, famous for her collaborations with Kurt Schwitters & Theo van Doesburg as well as her scholarship & curation of the Leonardo da Vinci collection at UCLA, was born today in 1889. #Bauhaus #dada

Happy birthday Hiroji Kubota. The determined, award-winning photographer, famous for images of a wide variety of subjects and locations, and subsequent books chronicling his travels, was born today in 1939.

Happy birthday Otto Morach. The influential artist, puppeteer, and educator, most remembered for poster designs he often created directly on the lithograph stone, was born today in 1887.

Happy Puzzle Day!
Series 2, puzzle #23

Puzzle #22 answer: Hans Hillman

#graphicdesignpuzzle

The Mercury
Manhattan, Kansas
Sunday, August 1, 1976

Happy birthday Gerda Taro. The principled photographer, remembered for her photojournalism during the Spanish Civil War, her ardent anti-fascist views, and sadly, dying at age 27 on the frontlines, was born today in 1910.

Happy birthday Gaspar Saladino. The respected letterer and logo designer, famous for more than 60 years of work at DC and Marvel comics, starting in the 1950s, was born today in 1927.

Happy birthday Jackie Ormes. The award-winning artist, journalist & cartoonist, known as the 1st black woman syndicated comic artist in the US & for numerous popular comics including Torchy Brown, Torchy in Heartbeats, & Patty-Jo 'n' Ginger et al., was born today in 1911. #comics

Happy birthday Derek Birdsall. The acclaimed British graphic designer & typographer, famous for his book cover designs, magazine art direction & teaching at the Royal College of Art, was born today in 1934. #GraphicDesign

The San Bernardino County Sun
San Bernardino, California
Thursday, July 31, 1986

Happy birthday Jean Dubuffet. The influential & prolific French artist, famous for his practice & advocacy of naive/outsider/low art, including founding the Art Brut movement, which embraces forms outside the academic tradition, was born today in 1901. #outsiderart #graffiti

Happy birthday Dindga McCannon. The eloquent self-taught fiber artist, muralist, author, illustrator, and educator, famous for a more than 50-year oeuvre that explores social, cultural, and women's issues with various media and styles, was born today in 1947.

Happy birthday Vojtech Preissig. The versatile type designer, printmaker, graphic designer, illustrator, and educator, most recognized for posters for the US military, was born today in 1873. He was killed in Dachau for his design work supporting the Czech resistance during WW2.