Jan V. White is a designer, communication design consultant, and graphic design educator and writer. Czech by birth, he was educated in England at Leighton Park School and holds degrees in architecture from Cornell University and Columbia University School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. From 1951 to 1964 he worked on two of TIME's architectural magazines: Architectural Forum as associate art director, and House & Home as art director. Since 1964 he has worked as a consultant, writer and teacher. He redesigned more than 200 periodical publications on four continents, and influenced many more with his books and articles about design for print. Initially focused on periodical design, in the mid-1980s White brought his analysis of the visual rhetoric of structure, white space and typographic hierarchy to bear on corporate publishing in a way that shared common ground with information design. 

June 4th, 1928 in (Age 96)