Dorrit Dekk

Graphic designer, printmaker and painter known as the ‘travel queen’ for her work with Air France and P&OAs a female graphic designer in the 20th century, Dorrit Dekk, who has died aged 97, was a rarity. She began her career in the postwar years at the government’s Central Office of Information, where her public information posters conveyed such messages as “Coughs and Sneezes Spread Diseases” or “Bones Are Still Needed to Make Glue ...” Then, in 1949, she set up on her own as