Alexander Isley is a graphic designer and educator.
Isley was born in Durham, North Carolina and studied at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, North Carolina State University College of Design and the Cooper Union School of Art in New York.
Isley is principal of Alexander Isley Inc., founded in 1988. Since 1996 he has been a visiting critic and lecturer for graphic design at the Yale School of Art. He has also taught courses and seminars in design, typography and exhibit design at The Cooper Union, School of Visual Arts, and Rhode Island School of Design.
According to his firm’s online biography, “Alex first gained recognition in the early 1980's as the senior designer at Tibor Kalman’s influential M&Co. He also served as the first full-time art director of the funny and fearless Spy Magazine, for which he was awarded gold and silver medals from the Society of Publication Designers.”[1]
Isley is past president of the New York Chapter of AIGA,[2] The Professional Association for Design. In 1998 he was admitted to AGI, Alliance Graphique Internationale.[3]