Cover Design:Gert Dumbar

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Gert Dumbar
Born in 1940. He learned painting and graphic design at Royal Academy of Fine Arts in the Hague. He established Studio Dumbar in 1977 after he left his previous agency Tel Design. Since then the Studio Dumbar team has completed numerous design programs for many major national and international clients, including IBM, Phillips, Apple Computer Europe, the British royal Academy of Art, Bayer GmbH, and the Danish Post. Recently they have a new studio in Rotterdam.