Education: until age 14. Studied typography at Hand werkskammer Köln while apprenticed, 1922–26; then studied art/graphics at Cologne Werkschulen. Established Entwurfe Burtin (Designs by Burtin), 1927–38. Taught in Berlin, marrying his student Hilde Munk, 1932. Hitler demanded Burtin become design director of the Propaganda Ministry (1938). Instead, he took his Jewish wife to New York, winning Federal Works Agency contract for 1939 World’s Fair. Freelance design for Time-Life, others. War work: OSS, designed aerial gunnery manuals. Art director for Fortune magazine, 1945– 49. From 1949 Will Burtin, Inc. served corporate clients, including Upjohn. Renowned for scientific models: Cell, Brain, Uranium Atom, others. After Hilde’s death he married Cipe Pineles. Will Burtin pioneered the fields of scientific visualization, information design, corporate identity and multimedia (he called it ‘Integration’). His large models foreshadowed computer-assisted virtual environments (CAVE).