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The Palm Beach Post
West Palm Beach, Florida
Thursday, December 6, 1973

Happy birthday Antonio Di Spigna. The designer, typographer, artist & educator, famous for, amongst many things, his masterful hand-lettering & for his work with Herb Lubalin, was born today in 1943. #typography #handlettering #Spencerianscript

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Happy birthday Josef Fenneker. The curious artist, graphic designer, and set designer, remembered for distinctive, highly stylised film posters as well as realistic theatre posters, was born today in 1895.

Happy birthday Tullio Crali. The self-taught artist and educator, famous for some of the movement's most quintessential Futurist paintings, was born today in 1910.

Independent
Long Beach, California
Monday, December 5, 1977

Happy birthday Josef Týfa. The influential graphic designer and type designer, remembered for advertisements and hundreds of books, and famous for dozens of award-winning typefaces and embracing digitization, was born today in 1913. #typedesgn

Happy birthday Barbara Stauffacher Solomon. The inimitable designer, landscape architect, educator, et al., most known for her Supergraphics & large-scale installations, was born today in 1928.

"…don't think of me as an artist, I’m a graphic designer. I get paid for this…"

Happy birthday Sarah Wyman Whitman. The American artist, glass artisan, & book designer, famous for doing all the things, including being active in the Arts & Crafts movement & founding Lily Glass Works, was born today in 1842.
#bookdesign #stainedglass

Happy birthday Alexander Rodchenko. The versatile & experimental Russian artist, photographer, graphic designer and a founder of Constructivism, was born today in 1891. #GraphicDesign

The Gettysburg Times
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Monday, December 4, 1939

Happy birthday Aaron Siskind. The influential & prolific photographer & English teacher, famous for documentary photos as well as his pioneering painterly abstract images, was born today in 1903.
#photography #abstractexpressionism

Happy birthday Richard Amsel. The remarkable graphic designer, famous for some of the most iconic images of the 70s and 80s, including film posters and covers for TV Guide and Time, was born today in 1947. #TVGuidewasabigdeal

Happy birthday Gae Aulenti. The prominent architect, industrial & graphic designer, famous for designing everything from watches to stage sets, including notably the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, was born today in 1927.
"If you can design one thing, you can design everything" —Massimo

The Daily Utah Chronicle
Salt Lake City, Utah
Tuesday, December 3, 1991

Happy birthday William Gropper. The radical cartoonist, artist, and lithographer, best known for left-wing political illustrations, murals, and defending himself before the House Un-American Activities Committee, was born today in 1897.

Happy birthday Pino Tovaglia. The award-winning art director, graphic designer & educator, known for his playful Swiss style & as an autodidact, was born today in 1923. #graphicdesign

Happy birthday Isolde Monson-Baumgart. The German artist, graphic designer, educator & sculptor, famous for her striking minimalist film posters, postage stamp designs & her love of printmaking, was born today in 1935.
#posters #graphicdesign

The Palm Beach Post
West Palm Beach, Florida
Saturday, December 2, 1972

Happy birthday Carlos Merida. The wildly prolific artist, famous for abstract geometric paintings and murals, and whose work can also be found in advertisements and ephemera, was born today in 1891.

Happy birthday Galileo Chini. The graphic designer, artist, potter, and educator, remembered as a significant figure in the Italian Art Nouveau movement and for a wide range of work, including set design, ceramics, and paintings on various materials, was born today in 1873.

Happy birthday T. J. Cobden-Sanderson. The typographer, bookbinder & artist, famous for his participation in the Arts & Crafts movement & for throwing a typeface into the River Thames to keep it from a rival, was born today in 1840.
#bookbinding #typography

The Ottawa Journal
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Saturday, December 1, 1979

Happy birthday Dorothy Hayes. The advocate, graphic designer, entrepreneur, and educator, besides her own striking work, is best known for organizing the 2-year touring exhibition “Black Artists in Graphic Communication,” was born today in 1935. #graphicdesign

Happy birthday Eileen Agar. The British painter & photographer was born today in 1899. She was the only British female artist at the 1936 International Surrealist Exhibition in London.

Happy birthday Jerry Burchard. The nomadic photographer and educator, most known for a free spirit, atmospheric landscapes, and portraits of artists, was born today in 1931.

Happy birthday Jan Brett. The award-winning author and illustrator, famous for dozens of children's books with adorable, intricate gouache illustrations, was born today in 1949.

The Daily Tar Heel
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Wednesday, November 30, 1955

Happy birthday Fanny Sanin. The award-winning Colombian artist and printmaker, famous for striking, highly technical abstract geometric paintings, was born today in 1938.

Happy birthday Mihály Bíró. The influential artist, famous for WWI service and some of the earliest archetypal political and propaganda posters, was born today in 1886.

Happy birthday, Carol Devine Carson. The accomplished graphic designer, famous for designing or art-directing all the popular book covers, was born today in 1945.