Tomás Maldonado

Tomás Maldonado (25 April 1922 – 26 November 2018) was an Argentine painter, designer and philosopher. He was born in Buenos Aires. He was one of the main theorists of design theory From 1954 to 1967, Maldonado worked at the Ulm School of Design (Hochschule für Gestaltung – HfG) in Germany.Lindinger, H., (1991), Ulm Design: The Morality of Objects, Cambridge: The MIT Press. He created a system of codes for the design program of the Italian firm Olivetti and the department store La Rinascente.

Maldonado died in Buenos Aires on 26 November 2018 from complications of pneumonia at the age of 96.Tomás Maldonado y su Arte Concreto : "Éramos jóvenes insoportables"  

References

Other websites
 Tomás Maldonado at Centro Virtual de Arte Argentino (CVAA)

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