George Him

George Him (4 August 1900 – 4 April 1982) was a Polish-born British designer responsible for a number of notable posters, book illustrations and advertising campaigns for a wide range of clients.

Biography Him was born Jerzy Himmelfarb in 1900 to a Polish-Jewish family in Łódź, Poland which was then occupied by the Russian Empire After schooling and further education in Warsaw Him studied Roman Law in Moscow but left in 1917 when the Russian Revolution forced the closure of the university he was attending. He moved to Bonn and by 1924 had completed a PhD at the University of Bonn on the comparative history of religions before deciding to study graphic art in Leipzig. Him studied at the Leipzig Academy of Graphic Art but even before he graduated in 1928 was already undertaking commercial commissions. Working as Lewitt-Him, the two established a distinctive design style which combined cubist and surrealist elements, often in a humorous context. The Lewitt-Him partnership was dissolved in 1954, when Le Witt decided to focus on developing his abstract paintings and artworks. Him continued to work as a commercial designer. Among the advertising campaigns he illustrated was the 1950s Schweppeshire campaign for the Schweppes drinks company. at the age of 79.