Richard Hollis

Richard Hollis (born 1934) is one of the most influential figures in British graphic design. Hollis has worked as a printer, a magazine editor, a print-production manager, a book writer, a teacher and a graphic designer.

Hollis was born in London and studied art and typography at Chelsea School of Art, Wimbledon School of Art and Central School of Art and Craft in London before moving to Paris in the early 1960s.[1][2]

Back in the UK he designed the quarterly journal Modern Poetry In Translation, became the art editor of the weekly magazine New Society and later created John Berger’s Ways of Seeing [3] (a highly influential book based on a BBC television series) – in two stages Hollis designed the visual identity and marketing material for the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London.

He is perhaps best known for his best-selling Graphic Design. A Concise History [4] and more recently Swiss Graphic Design: The Origins and Growth of an International Style, 1920-1965.[5]

Hollis was elected Royal Designer for Industry in 2005;[6] he lives and works in London.

References

  1. ^ Poynor, Rick (2004). Communicate: Independent British Graphic Design since the Sixties. London: Laurence King Publishing. ISBN ISBN 978 1 85669 422 3. 
  2. ^ Wilson, Christopher (2006). Rational and responsive, the work of Richard Hollis. London: Eye Magazine, Issue 59, Reputations. http://www.eyemagazine.com/feature.php?id=130&fid=574. 
  3. ^ Berger, John; Sven Blomberg, Chris Fox, and Richard Hollis (1972). Ways of Seeing. London: British Broadcasting Corporation and Penguin Books. ISBN 0563122447 (BBC), ISBN 0140216316, ISBN 0140135154 (pbk). 
  4. ^ Hollis, Richard (2001). Graphic Design. A Concise History. London: Thames&Husdon. ISBN ISBN 0500203474, ISBN 978-0500203477. 
  5. ^ Hollis, Richard (2006). Swiss Graphic Design: The Origins and Growth of an International Style, 1920-1965. London: Laurence King Publishing. ISBN ISBN 978-1-85669-487-2. 
  6. ^ "Royal Designer for Industry (RDI)". Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA). http://www.thersa.org/projects/design/rdi/current-royal-designers. 

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