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LADISLAV SUTNAR (1897-1976) NOUS, PEUPLES DES NATIONS UNIES. Circa 1949. 28x22 inches, 71x56 cm. L'Organisation des Nation Unies, Department de l'Information, USA. Condition A-: minor tears at edges. Paper. In 1939 Sutnar came to New York to help set up the Czech Pavillion at the New York World's Fair. With the outbreak of war in Europe, Sutnar chose to stay in the United States. From 1941-1960 Sutnar worked with Sweet's Catalog Service, a company that produced complex technical catalogues for architects, engineers and builders. This two-decade long association resulted in the pioneering redesign of the company's catalogues in which Sutnar's uncluttered and organized vision and his Functionalist background brought order, clarity and ease of comprehension to a field muddy with technical information. Perhaps his best known but least acknowledged contribution is the use of parentheses for telephone area codes, now considered a milestone in information graphics. In 1946 he designed several posters for the one-year-old United Nations. While this poster is unsigned, it clearly reflects his design sensibilities and echoes the published photo-mural design he created for a wall at NBC in Rockefeller Center in 1946. French version. Sutnar Design np, Visual Design p. b/36.
