Bob Noorda, an internationally known graphic designer who helped introduce a Modernist look to advertising posters, corporate logos and, in the 1960s, the entire New York City subway system, died on Jan. 11 in Milan, his adopted city. He was 82.
[H]e was in this world but not of it.
NYTimes’s full obituary for J.D. Salinger, “the Garbo of letters, famous for not wanting to be famous”
The very good Nick Dewar passed away this week.
Born in Scotland, grew up in a small fishing town on the East Coast and attended Art School in Glasgow, lived in Prague, London, New York and on a sheep farm in Cumbria. After living in New York for nearly ten years, he moved to Southern California, where he no longer had to bathe in his kitchen.
Harvey Pekar, creator of American Splendor, passed away today. NYTimes:
Success did not seem to ease Mr. Pekar’s existential predicament. “Of course I don’t think I have it made by any means,” his alter ego said in a cartoon in Entertainment Weekly in 2003. “I’m too insecure, obsessive and paranoid for that.”
Elizabeth Taylor passed away this morning at 79. She acted with the magnet of her personality.
Sidney Lumet, who directed one of my favorite films, passed away at the age of 86.
So why make movies? he was asked.
“I do it because I like it,” he replied, “and it’s a wonderful way to spend your life.”
via unequal-design, nevver.
