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A noncomprehensive & biased guide to graphic design: birthdays, didactic comics, odd definitions, book recommendations & often relevant musings. #graphicdesign
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The Daily Freeman.Kington, New York.Monday, July 25, 1938
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Happy birthday Denys "BB" Watkins-Pitchford. The beloved British author, naturalist & illustrator, most famous for his children's books including "The Little Grey Men" for which he won a Carnegie Medal, was born today in 1905. #ChildrensBooks #illustration
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Happy birthday Maxfield Parrish. The popular American painter, illustrator, and commercial artist was born today in 1870.
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Happy birthday Vera Myhre. The talented painter, graphic artist, illustrator, author, and educator, known for all-the-things, including writing books & articles, designing book covers & magazine illustrations, and collecting awards for her work, was born today in 1920.
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Happy birthday Willy de Majo. The well-regarded graphic designer, famous for co-founding ICOGRADA, working as a BBC broadcaster, serving in WW2, and establishing W. M. de Majo Associates, was born today in 1917. #graphicdesign
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Lassen County Times.Susanville, California .Tuesday, July 24, 1990
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Happy birthday Lee Conklin. The trouble-making artist, most famous for intricate psychedelic posters in the 1960s, was born today in 1941. "My life was at the drawing board rather than out there being a hippie."
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Happy birthday Wilda Gunn. The independent commercial artist, costume designer, and publisher, known for theater work, murals, her design firm "The Studio," and as the owner and editor of the Cleveland Key, was born today in 1905.
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Happy birthday Frances Flora Bond Palmer, the prolific & popular lithographer & artist, known for her technical skill in all steps of lithography from sketches, to stone, to printing, & for the over 200 works she produced for Currier and Ives, was born today in 1812. #lithography
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Happy birthday Alphonse Mucha. The Czech painter, illustrator & designer, famous today for his distinct art nouveau style, but who considered his own life's work The Slav Epic, a series of 20 enormous paintings, was born today in 1860. #artnouveau #graphicdesign
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Thibodaux Minerva.Thibodaux, Louisiana.Saturday, July 23, 1853
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Happy birthday Maral Rahmanzade. The painter & book designer, famous for her linocuts, an affection for painting oil fields & being the People's Artist of Azerbaijan, was born today in 1916. #Azerbaijan
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Happy birthday Nassos Daphnis. The eclectic artist and sculptor, remembered for serving during World War II as a camouflage painter, creating geometric abstraction paintings, and as a prolific breeder of tree peonies, was born today in 1914.
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The Leader-Post.Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.Tuesday, July 22, 1913
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Happy birthday Carole Byard. The gifted artist, illustrator, and photographer, best known as a Caldecott Honor and Coretta Scott King award-winning illustrator of children's books, often focusing on African heritage and Black stories, was born today in 1941.
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Happy birthday Charles F. Comfort. The Canadian writer, artist, illustrator, and educator, remembered as a war artist, a mural painter, and an active member of the art community, including serving as director of the National Gallery of Canada, was born today in 1900.
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Happy birthday Walter Ballmer. The prolific industrial, type & graphic designer, most known for the classic work he did while at Olivetti, and who continued to create widely acclaimed work as an independent designer, was born today in 1923. #graphicdesign #Swissdesign
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Daily Independent Journal.San Rafael, California.Friday, July 21, 1972
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Happy birthday Keiichi Tanaami. The prolific painter, graphic designer, & educator, famous for all the things, including colorful psychedelic/pop-art infused paintings, album covers, posters, films & animation, was born today in 1936. #popart #illustration
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