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Design Category
Information design, 1995
Design firm
The New York Times (New York, New York)
Collection
(1996) Information Graphics: Design of Understanding
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The designer deemed Julius Caesar, whom he considered “a semi-poet laureate,” as appropriate as any current head of state in this graphic for The New York Times. Television sets from each era lend a contemporary flavor, while the use of the Lithos font adds a Roman feeling to the text. Said the designer, who considers this piece (the result of a week’s work) one of his best, “I can safely say that that was the first, last, and only time that font was used in the paper.”