[1] Roy Kuhlman was born on July 9, 1923, in Fort Worth, Texas, and raised in Glendale, California.
In 1951, at age 28, he showed his portfolio to Barney Rosset, publisher of the avant-garde Grove Press, after trying to make it as an abstract artist.
However, as Kuhlman was putting away his book, two pieces of abstract art that he had not intended to show fell from one of the side pockets.
Public relations firm Ruder & Finn then hired him to create an in-house art department.
He left Ruder & Finn for Benton & Bowles where he designed the award-winning Mathematics Serving Man campaign for IBM, which appeared in Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News & World Report in May 1960.