Gerald Holtom

Gerald Holtom

Gerald Herbert Holtom (c 1914 - 18 September 1985 [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7292252.stm World's best-known protest symbol turns 50] from the BBC News website] cite news |first=Richard |last=Roth |title=The 50th Anniversary Of The Peace Symbol |url=http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/23/sunday/main3960390.shtml |publisher=CBS Interactive Inc. |date=2008-03-23 |accessdate=2008-04-20 ] cite news |first=Richard |last=Roth |title=CBS Sunday Morning, 3/23/08, Origin of the Peace Sign (timecode 5:13) |url=http://www.bushwars.com/img/080323aCBS.wmv |publisher=CBS Interactive Inc. |date=2008-04-20 |accessdate=2008-04-20 ] cite web |url=http://www.bushwars.com/img/HoltomGrave.bmp |title=Holtom gravestone |accessdate=2008-04-20 |format=bitmap image ] ) was a professional designer and artist.

A graduate of the Royal College of Art, Holtom was a conscientious objector in World War II. On 21 February 1958 he designed the Nuclear Disarmament logo for the first Aldermaston March, organised by the Direct Action Committee against Nuclear War, Easter 1958 (4-7 April). The logo was not copyrighted, and was available for use by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, also founded in 1958; it later became known in the wider world as a general-purpose peace symbol. [ [http://www.cnduk.org/pages/binfo/logo.html The History of the Peace Symbol at the CND website] Retrieved 10 Jan 2008] [ [http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article319738.ece Whatever happened to CND? - The Independent, 15 October 2005] ] The design was a combination of the letters "N" (two arms outstretched pointing down at 45 degreess) and "D" (one arm upraised above the head) of the flag semaphore alphabet, standing for nuclear disarmament. [Early CND badges. http://www.cnduk.org/pages/ed/cnd_sym.html]

It was at the Peace News office at 5 Caledonian Road, London. N.1. ("above Housmans Bookshop") that the CND (peace symbol) was adopted. [ [http://www.cnduk.org/pages/ed/cnd_sym.html CND-The disarmament symbol ] ]

Holtom died at the age of 71. His daughter Anna Scott is an artist.

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