Abed "Tony" Arefin (April 23, 1962 – May 1, 2000), was an influential
graphic designer
A graphic designer is a professional within the graphic design and graphic arts industry who assembles together images, typography, or motion graphics to create a piece of design. A graphic designer creates the graphics primarily for published, ...
who designed many fine-art catalogues in the 1990s. He was the chief art director of
Frieze
In architecture, the frieze is the wide central section part of an entablature and may be plain in the Ionic or Doric order, or decorated with bas-reliefs. Paterae are also usually used to decorate friezes. Even when neither columns nor ...
, the contemporary art magazine.
[Steven Heller, New York Time]
. Retrieved 05 March, 2010.
Early life in Pakistan and Bangladesh
Arefin was born in
Karachi
Karachi (; ur, ; ; ) is the most populous city in Pakistan and 12th most populous city in the world, with a population of over 20 million. It is situated at the southern tip of the country along the Arabian Sea coast. It is the former cap ...
,
Pakistan
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in 1962. Later moving to
Dhaka
Dhaka ( or ; bn, ঢাকা, Ḍhākā, ), formerly known as Dacca, is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh, as well as the world's largest Bengali-speaking city. It is the eighth largest and sixth most densely populated city ...
,
Bangladesh
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before immigrating with his parents to
London
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.
Career
Arefin moved to
New York
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* New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York
* New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States
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Film and television
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to work for ''Bomb'' magazine.
References
External links
NY Times Obituary
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1962 births
2000 deaths
Bangladeshi art directors
Artists from Dhaka