He was the first director of Britain's National Theatre (NT), and it bore the stamp of his personality in every facet of its being, down to the quality of the lavatory paper, says Mr Ziegler.
Even late films by less willfully iconoclastic filmmakers have a way of defying easy categorization, of refusing to fit within established categories and expectations even as they bear the strong stamp of directorial personality.
Yet, so very personal and individual was his adaptation and manipulation of the traditional musical idiom that it would be true to say he forged for himself a language of his own that bears the stamp of his personality as unmistakably as any work of Bach or Chopin.
For Ms. Vernon, 77, who relinquished control of the daily operations last year but still comes to the office four days a week, the coming move is yet another confirmation of a new reality: that the company bearing her name and the stamp of her personality will evolve without her.
No less than Hearst's Journal and Pulitzer's World, the Wall Street Journal bore the stamp of Kilgore's personality, which turned out to be one that appealed to a large audience of phlegmatic businessmen like him.
"Using a card says, 'You stopped me in my tracks and this comes from my heart.' " When you pair that idea with the choice of paper, font and ink — what Ms. Kemble called "a reinforcement of a decorative identity or a kind of personality stamp" — you have a memorable object, a keepsake.
Like most successful magazines, Cook's Illustrated bears the stamp of its editor's personality.
Unlike this year's other magazine casualties, however, Brill's Content, as it went through three editors, retained the unique stamp of its founder's personality.
