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When asking my Creative Director if he’d seen Tony Wilson’s headstone, I was quickly directed to Paul Rand’s. Are there any more examples of well designed headstones?

More info on Peter Saville and Ben Kelly’s memorial (photographed by Jan Chlebik) to Tony Wilson on the CR blog.

Paul Rand’s headstone was designed by Fred Troller in 1996, image taken from Steven Heller’s book, Paul Rand.


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Posted: 25th October 2010
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What do you think?

    Sean
    25th Oct 2010
    1:20 pm

  1. Not a headstone as such, but Harry Pearce recently designed a beautiful War Memorial for the Science Museum.

    More on it here—
    http://creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2009/september/pearce-designs-war-memorial


    2. Patricia Ann
    25th Oct 2010
    10:07 pm

  2. These are beautiful.


    3. Glenn
    26th Oct 2010
    1:32 pm

  3. What about this gravestone by Swedish designer Johan Kauppi – http://goo.gl/IA6t


    4. Aron
    26th Oct 2010
    2:14 pm

  4. Check out pop artist Patrick Caulfield’s headstone

    http://bit.ly/bqqSvj


    5. Designer
    26th Oct 2010
    10:51 pm

  5. That Patrick Caulfields one is funny. Wonder how the family feel, do they get the humour in it?


    6. Rhodri ap Dyfrig
    27th Oct 2010
    10:45 am

  6. Not a headstone as such, but I liked the Art Nouveau style of Antonín Dvo?ák’s tomb at the Vysehrad Cemetary in Prague.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/88857036@N00/155477801/


    7. Sam
    27th Oct 2010
    2:18 pm

  7. The type on Antonín Dvorák’s is great! Like the look of Patrick Caulfield’s, not so sure about the message. Johan Kauppi’s is very interesting too – nice idea! Not so convinced with Harry Pearce’s memorial, but it certainly is a fresh approach.

    Keep them coming people!


    8. lucian jocula
    28th Oct 2010
    10:36 am

  8. Not so sure about the message? “Dead” I think the message is that the dead person is dead.


    9. Sam
    28th Oct 2010
    4:52 pm

  9. Thanks for that, Lucian. I understand what it means. What I was getting at is that perhaps it’s a little loud and in your face. Of course Patrick Caulfield’s work was loud and in your face, but cemeteries are quiet places. I wonder what the family of the person next to him think about it.


    10. mallipoisto
    2nd Nov 2010
    3:59 pm

  10. http://mallipoisto.blogit.kauppalehti.fi/blog/4701
    Jaen Sibelius\’s fathers grave and other tombs.


    11. mallipoisto
    6th Nov 2010
    4:53 pm

  11. In Finland today almost everybody was walking in the graweyard.

    http://mallipoisto.blogit.kauppalehti.fi/blog/20921/haudatkin-vaistyvat-lahivuosina-ydinkeskustasta


    12. Nir Tober
    9th Nov 2010
    10:56 am

  12. btw,

    The bottom part of Rand’s headstone is in Hebrew.
    It has his original birth name, the name of his parents, and birth & death dates.

    But I have to say that the two part do not look good together, like they were designed by two different people (may they were).


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