Quick facts about Edmund C. Arnold, the 1968 Carl Towley Award winner:

• Known as father of newspaper design.
• Designed the Kansas City Star, Boston Globe, National Observer.
• In 1960 he became a professor at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University.
• In the 1950s he is credited for creating the seminal Z newspaper page design.
• In 1975 he was named head of the Department of Graphic Arts at Virginia Commonwealth University.
• Authored 27 books.
• In 1957 he received George Polk Memorial Award for his contribution to American journalism through typography and design.
• In 1968, JEA awards him the Carl Towley award.
• In 2000 he is awarded the Society of News Design Lifetime Achievement award, an organization of which he was a charter member.
• “I want to put on record that I’m not an old reprobate longing for a return of the good old days. I’m more of an old father who is disappointed that his kids are only reaching 98 percent of their potential and wants them to reach 101 percent. My message to young designers is this: Look kids, you can do better, but the only way to achieve your potential is to go back to – and understand – the basics. That sounds boring, but it’s reality.”