1925 - Born in Poland
1939 - Deported to Bochina Ghetto
1942 - Saved from a death camp by Sergeant Kur Zbach
1946 - Arrived in Britain after WW2, working at a London clothing factory.
1947 - Applied for an education grant, "The committee for the education of the Poles in Great Britain"
1950 - Studied at St Martins
1953 - Studied at Royal College of Art
1961 - After seeing Marber's designs for covers of The Economist. Facetti commissioned him to design covers for "Our language and language in the modern world".
1962- 65 - Facetti asked Marber to submit a proposal for a new cover approach for the Penguin Crime series. He was asked to do twenty titles in four months. Marber chose to retain the green colour for the series, he also kept the horizontal banding The image on Marber's covers occupies just over two-thirds of the space, while the title section at the top is divided into three bands carrying colophon, series, name, price, the title and the author's name, with the type ranged left.
1962 - Contacted Spencer to give him credit within an article for the grid design.
1963 - Layout became standard for the entire range of penguin paperbacks.
1964 - Worked for The Observer as the magazine's first art director.
1966- Worked as a design consultant for The Observer, Wire Fencing Company and Norvic
1967 - Designed New Society photomontage
1989 - Retired as a designer and became a Professor Emiterus of Middlesex University.
2010 - Released his autobiography, "No Return: Journeys in the Holocaust".
2013 - The Minories, Colchester exhibited a retrospective of graphic work designed by Marber for Penguin books, The Economist, New Society and others. The exhibition went on to be shown at the University of Brighton and the Galicia Jewish Museum in Krakow.
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