Rajie closed Cook & Shanosky in 2002, and turned his focus to his other very prolific career: as an artist-activist. In 2003, the project was accepted to the collections of Cooper Hewitt, the National Design Museum, and the Smithsonian Institution. For his contributions, he was invited to the White House in 1985 to receive a Presidential Award for Design Excellence. He often joked that his art appeared in more museums than Matisse's or Van Gogh's. Department of Transportation to design "Symbol Signs," a collection of 52 pictograms - including the internationally recognizable men's and women's bathroom symbols, the no smoking and parking signs, and many more - which are used to this day. In 1974, Cook & Shanosky was selected by the American Institute of Graphic Arts and the U.S. No matter who you are or where you live, if you've been to an airport or looked for a public restroom, you are most certainly familiar with his work. Over the many years of his career, Rajie created projects for IBM, Container Corporation of America, Montgomery Ward, Squibb Corporation, Black & Decker, Volvo, Subaru, AT&T, New York Times, Bell Atlantic, BASF, Lenox, and a number of other major international corporations.
Ayre & Son, and Graphic Directions before founding his own firm, Cook & Shanosky Associates, Inc., in 1967. He worked at Colorform Toys, Paul Kempner, WAAT-WATV Channel 13, N.W. on July 6, 1930, to Palestinian immigrants, Najeeb and Jaleelie Cook, Rajie graduated from Bloomfield (N.J.) High School and the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, and he served our nation in the New Jersey National Guard from 1946 to 1955.
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He was a singularly generous and buoyant force whose brilliance and talent were matched only by his kindness and good humor whose remarkable professional legacy was exceeded only by his life-sustaining love for his family and his unwavering commitment to peace and justice for the Palestinian people.īorn in Newark, N.J. In Arabic, Rajie means "hope" - a fitting name because to so many of us, Rajie was not simply family, an artist, or a neighbor. Pioneer graphic designer, Middle East peace activist, and beloved husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, brother, and friend, Rajie left a meaningful and lasting imprint on all those who were lucky enough to know him.
Rajie "Roger" Cook of Washington Crossing, Penn., passed away peacefully on Saturday, February 6, 2021, in the presence of his daughters and the love of his life, Peggy.
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