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Heinz Edelmann | Graphic designer, 75

Graphic designer Heinz Edelmann, 75, best known for his work as art director of the 1968 Beatles film Yellow Submarine, died Tuesday in Stuttgart, Germany. No cause of death was given.

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Graphic designer Heinz Edelmann, 75, best known for his work as art director of the 1968 Beatles film

Yellow Submarine,

died Tuesday in Stuttgart, Germany. No cause of death was given.

Born in Aussig in the former Czechoslovakia in 1934, Mr. Edelmann studied at the Duesseldorf Art Academy and became a freelance graphic designer in 1958. In addition to his work on Yellow Submarine, he designed many book covers, including the first German edition of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings.

In 1989, he won a competition in Spain to design the mascot of Seville's Expo '92 world fair, beating 23 other entries with his illustration of a pudgy bird with a rainbow plume and conical beak named Curro.

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