Tomás Maldonado (1922 - 2018) was an Argentine artist, designer and thinker. Beginning as an artist of concretism in Argentina he moved to Germany in the 1950s, to the Ulm School of Design where he taught and was its director for many years. After developing the Ulm Model Maldonado established himself in Italy both designing and working on design philosophy and criticism, publishing notable works such as Design, Nature, Revolution (1970).