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Louis Silverstein 1919–2011

4 February 2012

Louis Silverstein, long time innovative design director of the New York Times, and AGI member since 1969, died on December 1, 2011.

From the New York Times obituary by Douglas Martin: "In 1976, he helped devise a bigger, more visually expansive and, to many, more appealing New York Times…. It was a rethinking of the paper that was as important to its future then as the Internet is today, and one that influenced newspaper design nationwide….  Tom Bodkin, the current art director and an assistant managing editor of The Times, said Mr. Silverstein elevated newspaper design from a trade to a profession."

The full obituary can be read at The New York Times