Ladislav Sutnar, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ladislav Sutnar

Czech designer, graphic, typographer and artist

Date of Birth: 09-Nov-1897

Place of Birth: Plzeň, Plzeň Region, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 13-Nov-1976

Profession: graphic designer, university teacher

Nationality: Czech Republic

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Ladislav Sutnar (9 November 1897 – 13 November 1976) was a graphic designer from Plzen, Czechoslovakia (in western Bohemia) who was a pioneer of information design and information architecture.
Although he is uncredited, his contributions to business organization benefited society, which included creating a user-friendly telephone directory by implementing parenthetical area codes.
He received design commissions from a variety of employers, including McGraw-Hill, IBM, and the United Nations.
He also worked as art director for Sweet's Catalog Service for almost twenty years.
Sutnar held many one-man exhibitions, and his work is on permanent display in MoMA.
He is best known for his books, including Controlled Visual Flow: Shape, Line and Color, Package Design: The Force of Visual Selling, and Visual Design in Action: Principles, Purposes.
Sutnar was a master of exhibition design, typography, advertising, posters, magazine and book design.