During his long career—among much other work—Birdsall designed Penguin book covers and Pirelli calendars; he art-directed several magazines (including Nova and Mobil Oil's Pegasus; and he designed books for the Yale Center for British Art, the Tate, the V&A and the British Council and redesigned the Book of Common Prayer in 2000.
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He married in 1954 and has three sons and one daughter, including actor Jesse Birdsall.
The son of Penguin Books designer Derek Birdsall, Birdsall attended Hampstead School in North London.
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