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03.08.11

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Name That Design Person!

Two months from today, Americans will celebrate Mother’s Day*. In advance of this holiday, we’ve invited a number of designers to share with us a long-lost kiddie pic. On the 8th of every month leading up to Mother's Day, we’re asking our readers to guess the identity of one featured baby. (See January here and February here.)

We’ll post another baby picture on the 8th of April. The remaining photos will go up on the 8th of May. Write your guess in the comment line, first to guess the correct name, wins a Design Observer T-shirt.

Designer Babies

* With apologies to our readers in the UK, where "Mothering Sunday" occurs on the fourth Sunday of Lent, which falls this year on April 3.

Comments [24]

That has to be Peter Saville. Handsome chap

Peter Sutton
03.08.11
09:18

This one had got to be Michael Beirut!!!

PrintProofapp
03.08.11
09:18

Erik Spiekermann? :)

Martin Delin
03.08.11
09:33

now that you said, he does look like Michael Beirut
the ears and the eyes, that must be him..

pi
03.08.11
09:47

doyald

felixsockwell
03.08.11
09:49

Is it Alexander Mcqueen??

benthungo
03.08.11
10:06

David Carson

Guest
03.08.11
10:11

Massimo Vignelli

MMC
03.08.11
10:13

No, no and no. But such good guesses, all!

Jessica Helfand
03.08.11
10:16

john hejduk

russell claxton
03.08.11
10:27

Scott Stowell

TT
03.08.11
11:19

Chip Kidd

AC
03.08.11
11:30

James Victore

Jay
03.08.11
11:35

Stephen Doyle

Jay
03.08.11
11:52

John Bielenberg

O
03.08.11
11:55

Steven Heller

Jay
03.08.11
12:39

Rick Poynor

Guy
03.08.11
12:49

No more calls, please: we have a winner! The baby in the picture above is John Bielenberg. Congratulations, O! O, to collect your prize, please email me at [email protected] Thanks everyone for playing.

Jade-Snow Carroll
03.08.11
02:04

YEAHHH!!!!!! I won!

O
03.08.11
02:17

damn! too late again.

jad
03.08.11
03:13

No, that's definitely Peter Saville, you've mixed the photo's up!

Peter Sutton
03.08.11
04:18

Peter Sutton
Why the apostrophe in "photo's"? Yeah, I know, designers can't spell.

DP
03.09.11
09:15

this seems like the great---Pablo Picasso

Roohi
03.12.11
07:10

Maybe this should be done like the Sunday Puzzle segment on NPR.
Don't reveal the winner for two weeks, then draw from all those who got it right and that person gets the t-shirt (or whatever).
That would remove the time delay element from it.

Mike
03.19.11
01:07

Design Observer was founded by Michael Bierut, and Jessica Helfand.

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