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Bradbury Thompson was a graphic designer from Kansas whose career began in 1938, but ended when he passed away in 1995. Thompson got his jump start when he helped design the arts innovative journal of the West Viriginia Pulp and paper Company, well known as Westvaco Inspirations for Printers. From working with the arts journal, Thompson began to develop his own individual style that incorporated the effects of typography, color, and photo manipulation. In many of his designs, Thompson combines photography, font, and color. The photos in his layouts appear high in contrast, to the point where it is hard to distinguish details and lacks gradients. Most commonly, there will be one black and white photo image along with three solid color photo images. Each of the solid images were created using only primary colors: red, blue, and yellow. However, Thompson chooses to use a pink instead of red. The typography found in Thompson’s work sometimes is manipulated to represent an image. He will use individual letters to create faces or objects. Thompson also was known for creating his own version of the alphabet. He felt that it was confusing for the same letter to have two separate designs and thought it would be more logical to combine the lowercases and uppercases into one alphabet. The letters a, e, m, and n would remain lowercase letters, while the rest are uppercase. This alphabet was called “Alphabet 26” and font used was Baskerville, which was Thompson’s preferred font. Aside from Westvaco, Thompson additionally was art director of Mademoiselle, design director of Art News and Art News Annual, and has designed formats for a magazine called Smithonian. Most of his work can be found in his book The Art of Graphic Design (Yale University Press, 1988).