Bill Moggridge: June 25, 1943-September 8, 2012
In 2010, as the new director of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Bill Moggridge rode into New York from California with a formidable resume: cofounder of Ideo, inventor of the first laptop computer, author of the seminal work on interaction design, educator, and winner of a slew of international design awards.
But as a city full of designers and design-lovers was quick to discover, rarely has such an illustrious bio been animated by such a delightful person.
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“If there is a simple, easy principle that binds everything I have done together, it is my interest in people and their relationship to things.”
FROM http://www.fastcodesign.com/1670751/in-remembrance-of-bill-moggridge-1943-2012
Peter Blake: Born June 25, 1932
Peter graduated from the RCA in 1956 having also completed his National Service. He received the Leverhulme Research Award to study popular art whilst travelling Europe and went on to teach for several years at various London Art Schools, all the while working and exhibiting. His first solo show was held in the Portal Gallery in 1962 and since the early 70s his work has regularly been exhibited in one-man shows and retrospectives around the world. In 1981 he was elected a member of the Royal Academy and in 1994 was made the Third Associate Artist of the National Gallery. He was Knighted in 2002.
Sir Peter Blake | Illustrators | Central Illustration Agency
The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, released by EMI Records in 1967, is arguably the most famous album sleeve of all time. The image on the album cover is composed of a collage of celebrities. There are 88 figures, including the band members themselves. Pop artist Peter Blake and his wife Jann Haworth conceived and constructed the set, including all the life-sized cut-outs of historical figures. The set was photographed, with the Beatles standing in the centre, by Michael Cooper. Copyright was a problem as Brian Epstein, the Beatles’ manager, had to locate each person in order to get permission to use their image in this context.
Al Hirschfeld: Born June 21, 1903
End the Gun Violence Now
![Vintage ad 1969 JFK, RFK, MLK](https://schristywolfe.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/gun-control-save-this-page-wm-copy.jpg "Vintage Ad- "NY Times" July 1969")
Keep Hope Alive
In July 1969, a full-page advertisement in the Sunday NY Times posed a request to the American public:
Hold onto this page for 1 year and hope and pray it’s ended.
The hopeful ad appeared one year after the assassination of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, and 6 years after the shooting of President John Kennedy.
The copy reads:
The trouble is hoping and praying isn’t enough. Violence won’t end unless you’re willingto start the ending.
I have held onto to this yellowing page for 47 years; the hope for the end of gun violence nearly extinguished.
In the wake of Orlando, the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, the Senate still can’t take small steps to curb gun violence.
“My prayers are with you” congressmen numbingly utter, but in the same breath they greedily whisper “my votes are with the NRA.” Our congressional…
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Charles Eames: Born June 17, 1907
DESIGN MUSEUM: https://designmuseum.org/designers/charles-and-ray-eames
Official site of Charles and Ray Eames~ http://www.eamesoffice.com/eames-office/charles-and-ray/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_and_Ray_Eames
Irving Penn: Born June 16, 1917
The photographer Irving Penn put Marcel Duchamp in a corner, exposed Colette’s forehead and swaddled Rudolf Nureyev’s lithe body in layers of winter clothing. His subjects, who included many of the greatest creative talents of the 20th century, emerged from their portrait sessions with their carefully shaped personas profoundly shaken. Mr. Penn died on Oct. 7, 2009; he was 92.
As one of the 20th century’s most prolific and influential photographers of fashion and the famous, Mr. Penn’s signature blend of classical elegance and cool minimalism was recognizable to magazine readers and museumgoers worldwide.
FROM https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/irving-penn
Irving Penn Foundation~ https://irvingpenn.org/
Art Institute of Chicago: Irving Penn Archives~ https://archive.artic.edu/irvingpennarchives/overview/
Time Magazine: Appreciation –The Photos of Irving Penn~ http://content.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1929105_1964784,00.html
Margaret Bourke-White: Born June 14, 1904
Margaret Bourke-White was a pioneering photojournalist whose insightful pictures of 1930s Russia, German industry, and the impact of the Depression and drought in the American midwest established her reputation…In 1927 she graduated from Cornell University with a degree in biology, but she spent most of her time establishing herself as a professional photographer. Bourke-White opened her first studio in her apartment in Cleveland, Ohio.
FROM http://www.moma.org/interactives/objectphoto/artists/712.html
As an artist, Bourke-White continued to use photography as an instrument to examine social issues from a humanitarian perspective. She witnessed and documented some of the 20th century’s most notable moments, including the liberation of German concentration camps by General Patton in 1945, the release of Mahatma Gandhi from prison in 1946, and the effects of South African labor exploitation in the 1950s. Her career was cut short in 1966 due to Parkinson’s disease, and she died in 1971.
FROM https://www.howardgreenberg.com/artists/margaret-bourke-white
International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum~ https://iphf.org/inductees/margaret-bourke/
LIFE’s First-Ever Cover Story~ http://time.com/3764198/lifes-first-ever-cover-story-building-the-fort-peck-dam-1936/
Shorpy Archives~ http://www.shorpy.com/image/tid/208
Christo (June 13, 1935-May 31, 2020) & Jeanne-Claude (June 13, 1935–Nov. 18, 2009)
Christo and Jeanne-Claude were a married couple who created environmental works of art. Christo was born on 13 June 1935 in Bulgaria as Christo Vladimirov Javacheff, while Jeanne-Claude was born on the same date in Morocco as Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon. They have been collaborating for over 40 years and were best known for producing enormous packaging projects including parks, buildings, and entire outdoor landscapes.
FROM http://www.rosenthalfineart.com/christo-and-jeanne-claude/
hthttps://www.christojeanneclaude.net/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christo_and_Jeanne-Claude
Anne Frank: Born June 12, 1929
Photograph: Anne_Frank_Diary_at_Anne_Frank_Museum_in_Berlin-pages-92-93.jpg
Source: http://www.heatheronhertravels.com/inspired-by-the-anne-frank-museum-in-berlin/
Since it was first published in 1947, Anne Frank’s diary has become one of the most powerful memoirs of the Holocaust. Its message of courage and hope in the face of adversity has reached millions. The diary has been translated into 67 languages with over 30 million copies sold. Anne Frank’s story is especially meaningful to young people today. For many she is their first, if not their only exposure to the history of the Holocaust. https://annefrank.com/about-afc/about-anne-frank/
© Anne Frank Haus / Anne Frank Fonds
Anne Frank and Her Family~ http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/nazioccupation/annefrank.html
The Secret Annex Online~ http://www.annefrank.org/en/Subsites/Home/Enter-the-3D-house/#/house/20/help/
The Misty Miss Christy 