Howard E. Paine
Howard Erwin Paine was born on 1 May 1929 in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA. Educated in Philosophy at American International College in his hometown, he found work in his family's electrical business until 1957, when he launched a career as a graphic designer with the National Geographic Society. Two of his more notable achievements with National Geographic are the company's logo based on its yellow-bordered…
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magazine and the use of color images on the front cover. In 1981, while continuing to work as the art director at NGS, he started a second three-decade job as the art director at USPS. Nearly every United States postage stamp from the '80s, '90s, and '00s came about because of his creative direction, and he is credited with being the single driving force behind the general improvement of stamp design over that period. Few Americans living between 1957 and 2012 have not been familiar with his design work. Paine died on 13 September 2014. Sources: http://www.howardepaine.com/; http://www.howardepaine.com/usps.php; https://virginia.funeral.com/2014/09/14/howard-paine/ (all retrieved 29 January 2020).
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