Remembering Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, who made graphic design bigger and bolder

The famous designer brought her lively ‘supergraphics’ to the built environment. She died Tuesday at 95 years old.

“I wanted to mix life and design and art,” said the iconic graphic designer Barbara “Bobbie” Stauffacher Solomon in a 2018 short documentary film about her work. And for most of her life, that’s exactly what Stauffacher Solomon did.