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Oliver Lincoln Lundquist

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As special services officer for the United Nations, Lundquist announced in June 1946 that the organization would use the charting and diagramming techniques that had been used successfully by the United States Armed Forces to present information internally and for public use. The division would also
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neighborhood. He and Betty had three children, Jill Lundquist, Timothy Wade Lundquist (April 16, 1949 - July 8, 2016) and Eric Cooper Lundquist, and six grandchildren - Sarah Botstein, Abby Botstein (1973-1981), Benjamin Lundquist, Adam Lundquist-Baz, Tessa Lundquist and Molly Lundquist-Baz.
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was chairman of the U.S. delegation, and realized that a temporary design might become the permanent symbol of the United Nations. He formed a committee headed by Lundquist that developed a design consisting of a world map surrounded by leaves from a design created by
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The blue color that appears in the background of the insignia was chosen to be "the opposite of red, the war color". The original color the group chose in 1945 was a gray blue that differs from the current United Nations flag.
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He married Harriet Elizabeth "Betty" Cooper (June 6, 1916 - November 17, 2009) in 1944 after meeting in Washington, D.C. She was a photographer, political activist and family therapist. They divorced in 1975.
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which was acceptable as Argentina was not then a member of the United Nations. The final design used in the modern logo was expanded to include all of South America and was rotated 90 degrees to place the
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As an architect, Lundquist became a partner in the firm Von Der Lancken & Lundquist, with Julian von der Lancken, and later with Lundquist & Stonehill.
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Air Flow car for that company's pavilion at the fair. He created a "magic talking car" that spoke about Chrysler's car with the voice of the host of
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with North America and the United States, the host nation of the conference, at the bottom center. The projection used cut off portions of the
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in New Hampshire while his son Tim was a student there. In 1970 his daughter, Jill, was living with
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during World War II. Saarinen and Lundquist won a Post War Living housing competition sponsored by
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system. At the Loewy firm, he developed the blue-and-white Q-Tip box, described by
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in Manhattan, in addition to work on hospitals, schools and buildings for the
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be responsible for the planning of the UN's temporary offices in
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who headed the team which was responsible for the design of the
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United Nations Conference on International Organization
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Following his military service, Lundquist attended the
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and the Washington press corps, working together with
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as "one of the most widely known of product packages."
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architect
industrial designer
United Nations
Westbury, New York
Peekskill, New York
landscape architect
Columbia University
Raymond Loewy
1939 New York World's Fair
wind tunnel
Chrysler
Major Bowes Amateur Hour
air conditioning
The New York Times
Eero Saarinen
Office of Strategic Services
Arts & Architecture
track lighting
Lightolier
United States Navy
World War II
Office of Strategic Services
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Alger Hiss

United Nations Conference on International Organization
San Francisco, California
United States Secretary of State
Edward Stettinius, Jr.
Donal McLaughlin

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