Matthew Leibowitz: Visual Translator
Born in Philadelphia on August 21, 1918, Matthew Leibowitz’s family had emigrated from Eastern Europe. Leibowitz studied at night in the certificate program at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art (now The University of the Arts). He was intelligent, a fastidious dresser, an aficionado of puns, prolific and hardworking. At the time he was studying for his degree, he was already working at the established advertising firm, Gray & Rogers. During his college education (1936–1939), design pedagogy at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art radically changed. This can be credited to the arrival of Alexey Brodovitch in 1930, one of the most important designers in the twentieth century.
Gerd Arntz designed around 4000 signs, which symbolized key data from industry, demographics, politics and economy, for the visual language Isotype. I could spend hours on 
