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Hans Reichel Passes Away At Age 62

Experimental electric and acoustic guitarist, avant-garde composer, instrument builder and inventor, graphic designer and type designer Hans Reichel died on November 22, 2011.

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Kurt Weidemann Passes Away At Age 88

Influential graphic designer Prof. Kurt Weidemann, born December 12, 1922, died March 30, 2011, in Sélestat in Alsace.

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Doyald Young Passes Away At Age 84

On Monday, February 28, Doyald Young – lettering and logotype designer, type designer, author, teacher and mentor, passed away at age 84.

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Othmar Motter Passes Away At Age 84

After a long period of illness the Austrian graphic designer Othmar Motter died on Friday December 17 in Hard near Bregenz.

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Boudewijn Ietswaart Passes Away At Age 74

On 23 December, Dutch designer Boudewijn Ietswaart died at his home in Amsterdam.

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Karl-Heinz Lange Passes Away At Age 80

Ivo Gabrowitsch, Marketing Director of FontFont, remembers Karl-Heinz Lange who passed away on June 29, 2010.

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Jim Rimmer Passes Away January 8, 2010

Jim Rimmer – a multi-talented type designer, graphic artist, bookbinder, printer, letterer, technician, and a most generous teacher – passed away early January 8, 2010.

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Ed Rondthaler Passes Away At Age 104

On August 19th, 2009, Ed Rondthaler – co-​founder of Photo-​Lettering, Inc. and the Inter­na­tional Typeface Corpo­ration (ITC) – passed away at 104.

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