Rod Dyer
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Rod Dyer (born in South Africa) is an American graphic artist,{{Cite web|url=http://www.roddyer.com/|title=Rod Dyer Design|website=www.roddyer.com|access-date=2016-07-21}}{{deadlink|date=January 2025}} illustrator, photographer and restaurateur. [http://laist.com/2009/03/20/seven_questions_with_rod_dyer.php Seven questions with Rod Dyer] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171105230748/http://laist.com/2009/03/20/seven_questions_with_rod_dyer.php |date=2017-11-05 }}
Career
Dyer has been described as a "prominent graphic designer who created many of the album covers for Capitol Records in the 1960s."{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-06-28-me-4939-story.html|title=Security Guard Charged in Murder, Rape, Kidnap of Brentwood Student|first1=CAROL|last1=McGRAW|first2=LOIS|last2=TIMNICK|date=28 June 1988|publisher=|via=LA Times}} Logos and symbols to his credit include Disney Channel, Entertainment Tonight, Paramount Pictures, Big Ticket Television, 20th Century Fox, Cinergi Pictures, Heaven, MCA, Gramercy Pictures, Surround Sound, and graphics for Guess Jeans.{{cite web|url=https://vimeo.com/113340736|title=ROD DYER Interview Footage|date=1 December 2014|publisher=|via=Vimeo}}{{deadlink|date=January 2025}}
In 1965, Dyer was nominated for a Grammy award for the cover art of the album Stan Kenton Conducts The Los Angeles Neophonic Orchestra.{{Cite web|url=https://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/rod-dyer|title=Rod Dyer|date=2019-02-15|website=GRAMMY.com|language=en|access-date=2019-06-03}}
Death of daughter
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Category:American photographers
Category:American restaurateurs
Category:American graphic designers
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