'King' Casey Dies

Eugene J. Casey, a marketing designer who founded the King-Casey agency in New York in 1953 with fellow designer Fred King, died recently in Guilford, Conn. He was 83.

Casey's firm designed packaging, consumer durables and nondurables, displays and exhibits, environmental graphics, corporate logos and graphic design for some of the largest client companies in the world. It created the Merrill Lynch bull and designed credit cards for American Express and Shell Oil.

Casey retired in 1983, leaving the company to his son, Eugene Jr. (who died in 1998). The company now operates out of South Norwalk, Conn.