Samuel Antupit

Samuel Antupit, designer, art director, and printer died this month. His career described in Steve Heller’s informed appreciation in the New York Times.

Sam did extraordinary work in analytical design. His designs combined great imagination and excellent craft, both in service to the content.Two of his pieces are double-page spreads in my Envisioning Information: the powerful annotated hospital bill and the beautiful visually annotated (with 21 small images) analysis of Roy Lichtenstein’s Mural with Blue Brushstroke. Sam provided his films for the Lichtenstein analysis, so that the reprint looks as good as the superb original.

I still remember a long drive one very rainy night through Connecticut with Sam, after he had taught that day in my class. We talked about what was probably his greatest joy, his own basement printing work at Cycling Frog Press.