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Inducted in 1978
Design
Born October 24, 1910
Died June 30, 1983
Allen Hurlburt
Allen Hurlburt is best known for his magazine design and his creative use of photographic images during the sixties, and magazines were his principal design focus almost from the beginning. Born in 1910, by the time he was 21 years old he was both editor and designer of Punch Bowl at the University of Pennsylvania. It was only a college magazine, but it was good enough to elicit a note of praise from M.H. Agha, art director of Vanity Fair, when Punch Bowl did a parody of that magazine. That same year he had his first encounter with the work of Alexey Brodovitch at an exhibition at the N.W. Ayer gallery, and although he never worked or studied under either of these men, they both came to exert a profound influence on his development as a designer.