Thursday, November 10, 2011

Richard B. Doubleday, USA




I have just became acquainted with the work of Richard B. Doubleday, a talented poster designer who was born in 1962 in Lowell, Massachusetts.








Here is a brief biography:

Richard B. Doubleday is an Assistant Professor of Art in the Department of Graphic Design at the College of Fine Arts, Boston University and teaches in their London Summer British Programmes. He received his BFA in illustration from Massachusetts College of Art and a MFA in graphic design from Boston University where he was a Dean’s Scholar. His awards and honors include a visiting fellowship at Chelsea College of Art & Design, University of the Arts London, three Boston University Grants for Undergraduate Teaching and Scholarship (GUTS), and a Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation Fellowship.
He is an award-winning designer and has exhibited his poster designs at many international events and competitions including the Lahti International Poster Biennial in Lahti, Finland, the Seventh International Poster Triennial iRichard B. Doubleday, USAn Toyama, Japan, and the Contemporary International Poster Retrospective in Beijing, China. Richard is a prolific international educator, having taught workshops and lectures on design history in Boston, London, Suzhou, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Mexico City, Beijing and Nanjing. Presently, Richard is curating an international poster exhibition titled, A Century of Posters.
His writings on design history have been published in Baseline, IDEA, A! DISEÑO, Print, NOVUM, Design & Packaging China, IdN and Australian Creative. His posters have been published in numerous periodicals and publications, including The Poster: 1,000 Posters from Toulouse-Lautrec to Sagmeister (Abrams, New York 2010), The Sourcebook of Contemporary Graphic Design (HarperCollins, New York 2009), and 1 & 2 Colors (HarperCollins, New York 2011). Richard is author of Jan Tschichold, Designer: The Penguin Years (Oak Knoll Press, Delaware; Lund Humphries, London 2006), co-author of Jan Tschichold: Master Typographer, His Life, Work & Legacy (Thames & Hudson, London 2008), contributing writer for Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design (Phaidon, London 2011); TypoGraphics: Hideki Nakajima (Seibundo Shinkosha, Tokyo 2008) and serves as an editorial advisor and contributor for the 4th and 5th editions of Meggs’ History of Graphic Design (John Wiley & Sons, New Jersey 2011). Richard was recently a guest juror at the Tokyo Type Directors Club Annual Awards and a contributing writer for the Tokyo TDC Vol. 20.

You can see his work at his web site.

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