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Last Name Burtin

Given Name Will

alt. Names W. B. ;

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Year born 1908, not 1900 as sometimes claimed, in Cologne

Year died 1972

Place of death New York City

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Education trained as typographer in Germany, emigrated to the USA in 1938

Country of Activity Germany

Worked for Visuele aspekten van de wetenschap, exhib. (Amsterdam 1962) ; Visual Aspects of Science (New York: Union Carbide Corp., 1975) ; Atomic Energy in Action (New York: United Carbide Corp., c. 1970) ;

Patronage Upjohn Company, New York ; illustrator of Fortune Magazine ; educator at Pratt Institute &Parsons School of Design.

Collaborators photographer Ezra Stoller ;

Techniques medical illustr. & 3D models of cells, the brain, chromosomes etc.

Sample(s) https://sheilapontis.wordpress.com/2014/06/06/will-burtins-legacy-to-information-design/

Archival sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Burtin; The Cleveland Health Museum and Education Center exhibits: The Cell, Defense of Life, Brain & Chromosomes

Published sources Stanley Mason in Herdeg 1973: 96-101 ; R. Roger Remington & Robert S. P. Fripp: Design & science-The life and work of Will Burtin (Burlington, Vt 2007) ;

other American draftsman, commercial artist, and author of German birth; cf. http://adcglobal.org/hall-of-fame/will-burtin/ & http://robertfripp.ca/design-and-science/

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