title: Tomás Maldonado
text: Tomás Maldonado (25 April 1922 – 26 November 2018) was an Argentine painter, designer and philosopher. He was born in Buenos Aires. He was one of the main theorists of design theory From 1954 to 1967, Maldonado worked at the Ulm School of Design (Hochschule für Gestaltung – HfG) in Germany. He created a system of codes for the design program of the Italian firm Olivetti and the department store La Rinascente.
  
  Maldonado died in Buenos Aires on 26 November 2018 from complications of pneumonia at the age of 96.
  
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  Other websites
   Tomás Maldonado at Centro Virtual de Arte Argentino (CVAA)
  
  Writers from Buenos Aires
  1922 births
  2018 deaths
  Argentine philosophers
  Argentine painters
  Infectious disease deaths in Argentina
  Deaths from pneumonia