Although he is uncredited, his contributions to business organization benefited society, which included creating a user-friendly telephone directory by implementing parenthetical area codes.
The Artel Cooperative consisted of designers from Czechoslovakia who crafted furniture and held workshops under the Wiener Werkstätte's principles of art accessibility.
Medium included ceramics, textiles, carpets, furniture, and metal aiming to visually improve the experiences of daily life.
Due to its cancellation, he chose to settle in New York leaving his family behind in Prague as Nazi control continued there.
Sutnar implemented both typographic and iconographic characters that enabled viewers to quickly and successfully navigate through an overwhelming amount of information.
Sutnar himself said that the absence of these organizational methods and simplified legibility makes everyday activities much more difficult to accomplish.
His work was based on rationality and the process of displaying massive amounts of information in a concise and organized way to benefit the general viewer.
He often used punctuation symbols to help organize information, but his signature creation was the idea to place parentheses around the area codes in telephone books.
[10] Borrowing from the principles of De Stijl, Sutnar's work had a reduction to primary colors, straight lines, and an overall harmony of irregular text alignment.
[11] Similar to Jan Tschichold's work and modern typography, his style was limited to type and color within strict layouts.
The term "posters without words" refers to Sutnar's distinct poster-like design that characterizes the individual prints of this series.
[16] "In these disturbed times of cool and alienated society," he wrote, "if the paintings can inject the feeling, the mission is accomplished.
Although well after his time, Sutnar's methods of conveying information in a manner that evoked attention can be linked to the navigational aids of web design.