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Ladislav Sutnar (1897, Pilsen - 1976, New York) was a graphic designer from Czechoslovakia who was a pioneer of information design and information architecture. Although he is uncredited, his contributions to business organization benefited society, which included creating a user-friendly telephone directory by implementing parenthetical area codes. He received design commissions from a variety of employers, including McGraw-Hill, IBM, and the United Nations. He also worked as art director for Sweet's Catalog Service for almost twenty years. Sutnar held many one-man exhibitions, and his work is on permanent display in MoMA.
Functionalist architecture. Libra, František Albert. (Sutnar, Ladislav). "Nové stavění a bydlení. Architekt Ing. F. A. Libra". Vienna: Gustav. Ew. Konrad and Prague: F. Topič, 1934. Large 4to. V pp., (1), 32 leaves with 103 photographic illustrations, (12) pp. with contemporary advertisements. Orig. illustrated (Ladislav Sutnar) half-cloth binding.