@DesignOneThing

The Californian
Salinas, California
Wednesday, October 8, 1980

Happy birthday Faith Ringgold. The painter, fiber artist, sculptor, social activist & educator, famous for her narrative quilts (which echo graphic design & illustration technique), was born today in 1930.
#fiberarts

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Happy birthday Clemente Padin. The experimental artist, poet & graphic designer, doer of all the things but most recognized for concrete poems, mail art, and his opposition to the Uruguayan dictatorship, was born today in 1939. #concretepoetry #mailart

Happy birthday Fan Ho. The award-winning film director, actor & photographer, famous for his striking, often abstract geometric images of Hong Kong street life, was born today in 1931.

“My belief in art creation is to try anything.”

#photography

Happy birthday Milner Gray. The influential multidisciplinary designer and educator, famous for his advocacy of design as a legitimate and essential profession through his promotion of professional organizations, consultancy, and multifaceted practice, was born today in 1899. #graphicdesign

Oakland Tribune
Oakland, California
Sunday, October 7, 1973

Happy birthday Ootje Oxenaar. The respected artist, graphic designer, and educator, famous for designing all the things, including posters, books, stamps, and banknotes, and teaching at all the places, including RAFA (Hague) and RISD, was born today in 1929.

Happy birthday Georgii Stenberg. The accomplished artist, designer, and educator, most famous for designing constructivist film posters with his brother Vladimir, and who sadly passed away in a motorcycle accident, was born today in 1900.

Happy birthday Domenico "Mimmo" Rotella. The Italian artist & poet, best known for collages created from advertising posters he dubbed “double décollages," was born today in 1918. #decollage #posters

Tampa Bay Times
St. Petersburg, Florida
Thursday, October 6, 1988

Happy birthday Leslie MacDonald "Max" Gill. The prolific cartographer, architect & graphic designer, known for murals, illustrations, and lettering, but most famous for myriad pictorial maps, was born today in 1884. #maps

Happy birthday Paula Scher. The iconic and influential graphic designer, painter and arts educator was born today in 1948. #graphicdesign

Happy birthday Emilie Bieber. The pioneering photographer, remembered for her hand-tinted photographs & being one of the first female professional photographers in Germany, was born today in 1810. #photography

Happy birthday István Irsai. The resilient architect and graphic designer, remembered as an architect in Hungary before WW2, and after escaping a concentration camp and emigrating to Israel, working primarily as a poster designer, was born today in 1896.

Happy birthday Dashrath Patel. The celebrated Indian artist, ceramicist, multidisciplinary designer, and educator, famous for both his creative output and pedagogy, notably at the National Institute of Design and later the Rural Design School he founded, was born today in 1927.

Star Tribune
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Sunday, October 5, 1986

Happy birthday Manuel Orazi. The active artist and set designer, remembered for a multitudinous output, including typographic ornaments, jewelry, set design, posters, illustrations, and the noteworthy Calendrier Magique, was born today in 1860.

Happy birthday János Macskássy. The venerable graphic designer and artist, most famous for playful poster designs for a wide variety of companies and public interests, was born today in 1910. #posterartist

Happy birthday Maya Lin. The extraordinary architect, designer, and sculptor, famous for winning the national design competition for the Vietnam Memorial, numerous other distinguished memorials, and beautiful environmental earthworks, was born today in 1959.

Happy birthday Tadeusz Gronowski. The Polish graphic designer, artist & architect, famous for being one of the creators of the modern Polish poster & whose 80-year-old LOT Polish Airlines logo is still in use, was born today in 1894. #poster #polishposters

Happy birthday Grazia Varisco. The graphic designer, fine artist & educator, after her design & magazine work, famous for kinetic/op art influenced paintings & installations, was born today in 1937. #graphicdesign #kineticart

I started this project 8 yrs ago, and made choices. I don't own these images. In deference to the artists, to prevent redistribution, & to reduce the appearance of personal benefit, I made the images B&W, I changed the size, & grouped them. It may seem quaint now, but it is surely a justification.

Corvallis Gazette-Times
Corvallis, Oregon
Thursday, October 4, 1962

Happy birthday Otti Berger. The textile artist & educator, known for innovative textile work & theories & as a Bauhaus student & teacher, was born today in 1898. She was murdered at Auschwitz in 1944. #textiledesign

"The beauty of a stuff is above all, known by its feel."

Happy birthday Mildred Waltrip. The fine & commercial artist, who studied with László Moholy-Nagy & is best known for her murals done both as independent commissions & for the WPA, was born today in 1911. #WPAposters #murals

Happy birthday Joseph Blumenthal. The award-winning printer, publisher, typographer, and historian, remembered as a fine press advocate, for founding Spiral Press, typeface design, and as a self-taught book historian, was born today in 1897.

Happy Puzzle Day!
New Series, puzzle #6

#GraphicDesignPuzzle

The Gettysburg Times
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Saturday, October 3, 1998

Happy birthday Otto Barth. The adventurous artist and mountaineer, remembered for public building painting commissions, travel posters, and sadly passing at a young age, was born today in 1876.

Happy birthday Kenojuak Ashevak. The multitalented Inuk artist, known for sculpture, engraving, textiles, and stained glass, and famous for her popular graphic art, was born today in 1927.