Pawhuska Journal-Capital Pawhuska, Oklahoma Saturday, November 22, 1919

Happy birthday Erberto Carboni. The multi-talented architect, graphic and industrial designer, and illustrator, best remembered for his award-winning design work for Barilla, was born today in 1899.

Happy birthday Dora Maar. The innovative and influential artist & photographer, notable for Surrealist paintings and photographs, antifascist activism, & influencing Picasso, was born today in 1907. "All his portraits of me are lies. They're all Picassos. Not one is Dora Maar."

Happy birthday Miguel Covarrubias. The inimitable artist, illustrator, anthropologist, educator, et al., famous for all the things, including caricatures & analysis of Mesoamerican & Olmec cultures & pedagogy in Art & Anthropology, was born today in 1904. #Mexico #Illustration

Happy Puzzle Day! Puzzle #12 answer: Typography: Macro- and Microaesthetics by Willi Kunz More puzzles in the New Year. #GraphicDesignPuzzle

The Chillicothe Constitution-Tribune Chillicothe, Missouri Tuesday, November 21, 1916

Happy birthday René Magritte. The Belgian commercial artist & painter, famous for his witty illustrative surrealist paintings, which often challenge perception, art & the conveyance of meaning, was born today in 1898. #surrealism #commercialart

Happy Birthday Wim Crouwel. The Dutch graphic & type designer & typographer, famous for his handsome Swiss style type-centered designs, was born today in 1928. #SwissDesign #modernism #GraphicDesign

Happy birthday Renaldo Kuhler. The eccentric artist, whose vocation was as a scientific illustrator for the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and avocation was creating and visualizing the imaginary and expansive country Rocaterrania, was born today in 1931. #outsiderart

Happy birthday Jim Roslof. The influential artist, graphic designer, and inventor, best remembered for working as an illustrator and art director for Dungeons and Dragons at TSR during its formative years, was born today in 1946.

The Palm Beach Post West Palm Beach, Florida Sunday, November 20, 1983

Happy birthday Rudolf Koch. The skilled type designer, calligrapher, illustrator, and educator, notable for his Arts and Crafts-inspired work, including woodcuts, calligraphy, books, and typefaces such as Label and Neuland, was born today in 1876.

Happy birthday Harry Rogers. The busy graphic designer, art director, and typographer, remembered for decades of work for Qantas, including their in-flight magazine, logo, and charming posters, was born today in 1929.

Happy Birthday Corita Kent. The Roman Catholic nun, pop artist, social activist, and educator, famous for many virtues including her serigraphs advocating for peace, was born today in 1918. corita.org

René Mederos was born today in 1933. The Cuban graphic designer is renowned for his vibrant, color-field propaganda posters from the Vietnam War and the Cuban Revolution.

Iron County Record Cedar City, Utah Thursday, November 19, 1981

Happy birthday Ken Briggs. The British graphic designer, famous for his modernist posters & programs, created while serving as the first graphic designer for the National Theatre, was born today in 1931. #posters #modernism #graphicdesign

Happy birthday Louis Théophile Hingre. The multi-talented artist and educator, famous for his animal sculptures and also skilled at 2D forms, including quintessentially Art Nouveau lithographs & engravings, was born today in 1932.

Nashua Telegraph Nashua, New Hampshire Thursday, November 18, 1976

Happy birthday Frances Marion. The iconic screenwriter, film director, & journalist, famous for 325 film scripts, winning 2 Academy Awards, serving as a combat correspondent during WWI, & beginning her career as a commercial artist, was born today in 1888. #secretgraphicdesigner

Happy birthday Chiura Obata. The esteemed Japanese-American artist, illustrator & art educator, famous for his landscape paintings & teaching for more than 20 years, including establishing an art program at the internment camp where he was held during WW2, was born today in 1885.

Happy birthday Mela Kohler. The Austrian artist, illustrator & printmaker, known for her fashion postcards for the Wiener Werkstätte and her children’s book illustrations, was born today in 1885. #illustration #ChildrensBooks

Lincoln Journal Star Lincoln, Nebraska, page 7 Sunday, November 17, 1907

Happy birthday Thérèse Moll. The influential graphic designer, whose life was sadly short and is most known for her distinctively Swiss style & as the student and contemporary of a Who's Who of designers, was born today in 1934. #graphicdesign

Happy birthday Louis Danziger. The award-winning graphic designer & educator, famous for modernist work influenced by his mentors Alvin Lustig & Alexey Brodovitch as well as for the hundreds of students he influenced, was born today in 1923. #graphicdesign

Happy birthday Isamu Noguchi. The Japanese American whose wide-ranging talents included furniture design, sculpture, & landscape architecture, was born today in 1904. #sculpture

Happy birthday Amadou Sow. The multi-talented artist, remembered for graphic art, lithography, and especially for his compelling paintings, was born today in 1951.

Happy birthday Eugene Winslow. The well-respected cartoonist, illustrator, graphic designer, artist, educator, et al., in addition to doing all the things, best remembered for co-founding Afro-Am Publishing in Chicago, was born today in 1919.

Vidette-Messenger of Porter County Valparaiso, Indiana Saturday, November 16, 1974

Happy birthday Frank Arthur Nankivell. The self-determined artist, remembered for his political cartoons, advertisements, and caricatures in both Australia and his accidentally adopted home of Japan, was born today in 1869. #Puck

Happy birthday Martha Zelt. The artist, printmaker & arts educator, known for her mixed-media constructions incorporating fabric, handmade paper, stitching, etching, woodcuts, screen printing, et al., was born today in 1930. #printmaking

The Galveston Daily News Galveston, Texas Tuesday, November 15, 1994

Happy birthday Wojciech Fangor. The Polish artist, graphic designer, sculptor & educator, famous for his colorful geometric op-art paintings as well as being co-creator of the Polish School of Posters, was born today in 1922. #PolishPosters #posters #graphicdesign

Happy birthday William Dale Fries Jr., aka C.W. McCall. The fascinating ad man and graphic designer, famous for turning a fictional TV commercial character into a successful country music recording career for himself, was born today in 1928. #convoy

Happy birthday Wayne Thiebaud. The popular artist and educator, famous for advertising and pop art adjacent paintings of everyday objects, including ice cream and candy, was born today in 1920. “If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective."

Happy birthday Georgia O'Keeffe. The incomparable artist and educator, who paid for her education by working as a commercial artist and became famous for her distinctive paintings of natural forms, was born today in 1887. #secretgraphicdesigner

Happy Puzzle Day! Last in the new Series, puzzle #12 #GraphicDesignPuzzle

Star Tribune Minneapolis, Minnesota Sunday, November 14, 1982

Happy birthday Horst Janssen. The prolific draftsman, printmaker, famous for creating all-the-things, including drawings, etchings, woodcuts, lithographs, engravings, portraits, and posters, which are often odd, visceral, and award-winning, was born today in 1929.

Happy birthday Nadezda Blahova. The Czech artist and graphic designer, who made her living editing and illustrating children's books, but who is now more famous for a handful of rare film posters, was born today in 1926.

Happy birthday Sonia Delaunay. The French artist & set designer, famous for colorful geometric paintings, co-founding Orphism, & being the 1st living female artist to have a retrospective at the Louvre, was born today in 1885. #painting #modernism #cubism

Happy birthday Agnes Canta. The Dutch graphic designer, artist & lithographer, famous for her posters & packaging work, was born today in 1888. #posters #graphicdesign

Brooklyn Eagle Brooklyn, New York Sunday, November 13, 1921

Happy Birthday Georg Olden. The award-winning graphic designer, who worked extensively in television & advertising, was born today in 1920. #graphicdesigner

Happy birthday Mohammed Melehi. The Moroccan author, educator, artist & graphic designer, famous for his publishing endeavors & his colorful modernist wave-centric paintings, was born today in 1936. #modernism #Morocco

Happy birthday Norbertine Bresslern-Roth. The celebrated artist and printmaker, famous for animal linocuts, illustrations, and paintings, was born today in 1891.

Happy birthday Adrien Barrère. The backward French artist, famous for abandoning his studies in law and medicine to become a successful illustrator and caricaturist, was born today in 1874.

Happy birthday Gloria Stoll Karn. The talented artist and educator, most remembered for serendipitously becoming an artist and for 100s of covers and illustrations for pulp magazines, was born today in 1923.

Tampa Bay Times St. Petersburg, Florida Sunday, November 12, 1995

Happy birthday Dahlov Ipcar. The artist, author, farmer, and educator, remembered for 10 large public murals, dozens of children's books, four adult fantasy novels, and many intricate, colorful, geometric paintings, was born today in 1917.