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Gerald Herbert Holtom (20 January 1914 – 18 September 1985[1][2][3][4]) was an English artist and designer. A graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, in 1958 he designed the Nuclear Disarmament (ND) logo, which was adopted the same year by the British Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), and later became an international peace symbol.[5][6]
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^Darius Holtom Gerald Holtom - Designer of the Peace Symbol, Spokesman Books, Nottingham
Gerald Herbert Holtom (20 January 1914 – 18 September 1985) was an English artist and designer. A graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, in 1958...
created by a commercial artist named GeraldHoltom from Twickenham, London, using the semaphore for N and D. Holtom designed the logo for use on a protest...
it is known today (also known as "peace and love"), was designed by GeraldHoltom as the logo for the British Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND),...
Aldermaston. The symbol adopted by CND, designed for them in 1958 by GeraldHoltom, became the international peace symbol. It is based on the semaphore...
symbol was designed for the British nuclear disarmament movement by GeraldHoltom. 1959 – The popular film On the Beach shows the last remnants of humanity...
design that featured Cross's name (the "o" had been transformed into the GeraldHoltom-designed peace symbol and the griptape was produced in a variety of...
The peace symbol (☮) was designed by GeraldHoltom in 1958, displaying the letters N and D in flag semaphore, and is the official symbol of the Campaign...
style, in subject, and in intention". The Third of May 1808 inspired GeraldHoltom's peace sign and a number of later major paintings, including a series...
Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, is designed and completed by GeraldHoltom. 1971 – The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna...
Janek Schaefer, and the actor Alan Rickman. The artist and graduate GeraldHoltom designed the CND symbol in 1958, which has become a nearly universal...
in the UK. February 21 – A peace symbol is designed and completed by GeraldHoltom, commissioned by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, in protest against...
designer (born 1925) John Bowle, historian (born 1905) 18 September GeraldHoltom, artist and designer (born 1914) John Kingsley Read, far-right politician...
principal room was the council chamber on the first floor. A mural by GeraldHoltom depicting scenes from local history was installed on the staircase and...
Sir Jacob Epstein was a pioneer of modern sculpture. In 1958 artist GeraldHoltom designed the protest logo for the British Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament...
of the first ND badges, but attributes the design of the symbol to GeraldHoltom. These earliest badges were made in ceramic (fireclay) – which Austen...
"Ban the Bomb" placards made by the children of the symbol's creator, GeraldHoltom. (6 April 2008). Cheryl Crane, the 14-year-old daughter of film actress...
hourglass to represent that time is running out. The similarity with GeraldHoltom's black and white circular peace sign (the CND nuclear disarmament symbol)...
15 January. The campaign symbol has been launched on 21 February by GeraldHoltom. 27 February – The final death toll of the Munich air disaster reaches...
symbol, a circle with four lines inside, was unveiled by its designer, GeraldHoltom, who had been hired by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament to prepare...
Disarmament and the Committee of 100. In 1958, artist and designer GeraldHoltom, presented early designs of the nuclear disarmament symbol within the...
Lancashire 1888 27 metres (89 ft) Grade II listed (1244910). Architects: Henry Holtom and George Arthur Fox. Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent Old Town Hall, Burslem More...
Retrieved 2 May 2017. Weblio (2013). "神". Weblio英和辞典・和英辞典. GRAS Group, Inc. Holtom, D. C. (January 1940). "The Meaning of Kami. Chapter I. Japanese Derivations"...
William Holmes Brigadier John Graham Holmes-Smith Brigadier Christopher Gibbs Holtom Major-General Arthur Holworthy Major-General John Vincent Homan Brigadier...
Minchinhampton (1 Councillor) Party Candidate Votes % ±% Labour Christopher Holtom 213 14.40% Conservative Nicholas Hurst 858 57.90% Green John Williams 412...
Votes % ±% Labour Mike Sharpe 2,500 Conservative Gerald Brien 1,033 21.8 Liberal Democrats Trevor Holtom 963 20.3 Green Lee Moore 199 4.2 Majority 1,467...
Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. Brigadier Christopher Gibbs Holtom. Late Intelligence Corps. Colonel Christopher John Murray. Late The Royal...
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