Talk:Ladislav Sutnar

message: Ladislav Sutnar (1897-1976)
*General Overview: Born November 9, 1897, in Pilsen, Czech Republic (or Plzen in then western Bohemia); died after a brief illness, November 13, 1976, in New York, N.Y. Graphic designer and author. Sutnar came to the United States in 1939 to design the Czech pavilion for the World's Fair, and he remained in America because of the Nazi domination of his homeland. He received design commissions from a variety of employers, including McGraw-Hill, International Business Machines (IBM), and the United Nations. He also worked for Sweet's Catalog Service for almost twenty years. Sutnar held many one-man exhibitions, and his work is on permanent display in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. His books include Controlled Visual Flow: Shape, Line and Color, Package Design: The Force of Visual Selling, and Visual Design in Action: Principles, Purposes.--Nboffa (talk) 14:16, 20 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: He is primarily known for putting the parentheses around American telephone area-code numbers when they were first introduced. --Nboffa (talk) 05:31, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Also, this "avant-garde design who brought Constructivism to American corporations" remains unknown for these racy images to which he wrote an essay to accompany"Another Side of Ladislav Sutnar" by Steven Heller http://www.aiga.org/another-side-of-ladislav-sutnar/. (Tomas Vlcek, who has written about this relatively forgotten aspect of Sutnar's work, suggests the influence of Pop, yet also notes that the artist hated Pop and Op Art.) The term "posters without words" refers to Sutnar's distinct poster-like design that characterizes the individual prints of this series. Nboffa (talk) 05:29, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Research Draft 

message: (Apologies for the slight disorder and content; much easier for me to lay it all out in this fashion.) The total number of sources is spread out between the original 'sources' header and the generated 'references' as I had already begun to write a draft of the research. I found out that Radislav Sutnar, Petr and Iva Knobloch were used as references to help write one of the more recent articles on Ladislav Sutnar, so perhaps, I can locate any of them and reach out for more information. I plan to expand a lot more on the different categories I have listed above. I am going to dig a bit more into The Commons to see what is available image-wise later on. I am able to retrieve a lot of articles about his works, but I think I may be lacking some about his personal life/journey to America--definitely can be expounded on. I think I will also need to differentiate somehow between the works he did in America and Czech. I have not yet been able to find any honors he received, so that would be interesting to include although it has been noted by many sources I have encountered thus far that he remains uncredited for a lot of his work. I think it would be beneficial to include a section at the end including works and examples inspired by Sutnar. As for now, I am finding more and more about Sutnar than I originally had thought outside the world of information graphics. --Nboffa (talk) 06:01, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
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