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Harry Marks
Harry Marks may refer to: * Harry Marks (journalist), British politician and journalist * Harry Marks (broadcast designer) Harry Marks (March 11, 1931 - April 21, 2019) was a British-American broadcast designer who was renowned for his work in American television graphics. In 1984, Marks originated the idea for the TED Conference, which he co-founded with Richard ..., British-American broadcast designer and co-founder of the TED Conference * Harry Marks (architect), architect in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia {{hndis, Marks, Harry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Marks (journalist)
Harry Hananel Marks (9 April 1855 – 21 December 1916) was a British politician and journalist, who founded the ''Financial News'' in 1884. Early life Harry Marks was born in London on 9 April 1855, a younger child of David Woolf Marks and his wife Cecilia. David Woolf Marks, who came from a London merchant family, was a prominent reformist rabbi at the West London Synagogue, and the professor of Hebrew at University College London. Harry's younger brother, Claud Marks, would go on to gain distinction in the Army, being awarded the Distinguished Service Order for his service in the Boer War. Marks attended University College School from 1864 to 1868, followed by a period at the in Brussels, before travelling to the United States, aged 16, in 1871. United States After arriving in New Orleans, Marks first job was selling sewing machines, before talking his way into a position writing for newspapers in Texas on the grounds of (non-existent) previous journalistic experience. In 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Marks (broadcast Designer)
Harry Marks (March 11, 1931 - April 21, 2019) was a British-American broadcast designer who was renowned for his work in American television graphics. In 1984, Marks originated the idea for the TED Conference, which he co-founded with Richard Saul Wurman. Biography Early life Marks was born in England. When he was 15, he worked for Oxford University Press as a typographer and publications designer. At the age of 18, he immigrated to San Francisco, where he worked for the University of California Press. He eventually went to work for ABC in the 1960s, assigned to make on-screen graphics more attractive. Marks would eventually do work for CBS and NBC as well. ABC Movie of the Week intro Marks created the groundbreaking intro for the ABC Movie of the Week. He hired Douglas Trumbull to create the graphics using the slit-scan process that Trumbull had created for the psychedelic climax of '' 2001: A Space Odyssey''. Most of his work through the 1970s used backlit animation multi- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
