Sven Lidman (lexicographer)

His ideas to use illustrations not to but with the text took European lexicography to new heights with Focus and Combi Visuell.

In 1983, Lidman took the initiative to found Bild och Ord Akademin, the Swedish Academy of Verbovisual Communication, where he holds the honorary title of Preses Magnificus.

Since its beginning in 1983, the Academy has awarded an annual Lidman Prize for good information in words and images.

An updated autobiography was published in 2006, Fadern, sonen och den härliga bokbranschen.

The two works overlap, but the latter contains more of personal reflexions and uses more of the illustration techniques that the author preaches, in addition to covering the 1990s.