death_place death_date birth_place birth_date article_title name occupation
roanoke , virginia february 2 , 2007 june 25 , 1913 yes bay city , michigan june 25 , 1913 yes edmund arnold
 edmund c. arnold newspaper designer
edmund arnold

edmund c. arnold -lrb- june 25 , 1913 -- february 2 , 2007 -rrb- was a newspaper designer , considered by many to be the father of modern newspaper design .
as a newspaper consultant , he designed more than a thousand newspapers including the `` boston globe '' , `` national observer '' , `` today '' , `` toronto star '' , `` the kansas city star '' , and many small weeklies .
he also worked as the editor of `` the linotype news '' , and as a columnist for `` publisher 's auxiliary '' .
arnold was born on june 25 , 1913 , in bay city , michigan , the son of ferdinand m. and anna i. -lrb- begick -rrb- arnold .
as a small boy the family moved to saginaw , michigan .
edmund 's only brother , robert , drowned in the saginaw bay in a boating accident in 1938 at the age of 19 .
in addition to his newspaper work , arnold was an educator .
he was the chairman of the graphic arts and publishing departments at the school of journalism at syracuse university and taught as a professor at virginia commonwealth university .
he was a charter member of the society for news design .
he wrote over 25 books including the ink on paper -lrb- 1963 -rrb- , ink on paper 2 -lrb- 1972 -rrb- , and modern newspaper design -lrb- 1969 -rrb- .
arnold was honored with snd 's lifetime achievement award in 2000 .
when describing the state of news design in an interview at the time he was honored , arnold said :
