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WORK EXPERIENCE:

Decca Recording Company, Lambeth, London. 1965-66, designing record sleeves. and publicity material.
Marketing Orientated Sales Techniques, London W1. Designing advertising for smaller hi-tech and sign companies. 1966
Freelance. Satisfying the graphic and calligraphic needs of a wide variety of corporations. See Clients Served. 1966-91.
American Greetings. Design Consultant, Computer Coach in QuarkXpress, Adobe Illustrator, Aldus Freehand, Adobe Photoshop, Fractal Painter, Gold Disc Astound, Letraset FontStudio, Altsys Fontographer, etc. 1991-2000
Freelance, working on contract for American Greetings, and with other clients 2000-

CLIENT LIST:

In England:
British Petroleum, London. Designed and produced Visitors Book to be presented to HM Queen Elizabeth II on the occasion of the opening of the Forties Field.
Scicon Data Processing, Leighton Buzzard. Designed new logo and corporate brochure
Sadlers Wells Theatre, London. Designed lettering and some exhibits for the reopening of Sadlers Wells. Designed all posters and theatre literature for period of 3 years.
National Portrait Gallery, London. Designed lettering for show concerning members of the Royal Family.
British Museum, London. Designed lettering for show on the book arts at the British Library.
David Mellor Ltd., London. Designed and executed decorative lettering on 20 foot high stairwell at Sloane Square.
Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme, London. Assisted in the design of and hand lettered diplomas.
The Earl of Hardwicke. Designed, wrote and illuminated two poems on vellum.
The Library Association, London. Hand lettered their diplomas for a number of years.
The Royal Mint, London. Produced a number of designs for coins prior to the conversion to decimal currency.
Dartington Cider Press Centre, Devon. Designed and executed all signage lettering throughout the Centre. Designed most of the printed material for the Centre's publicity.
Dartington Pottery, Devon. Designed many exhibition announcements.
Cranks Health Foods, London. With Donald Jackson designed all of the corporate identity, signage and publicity material.
Craftwork Gallery, London & Guildford. Designed gallery logo and all exhibit announcements.
Longman Green, Harlow, Herts. Designed number of book jackets for textbooks.
Guinness, Ltd., London. Designed typeface based on previously designed lettering for Cranks Health Foods following its takeover by Guinness.
Ariel Plastics, Ware, Herts. Designed advertisements for trade and national publications.
Old Charm Furniture, Ware, Herts. Designed sales brochure.
Pitney-Bowes, Harlow, Herts. Designed and lettered employee retirement diplomas.
Ogilvy and Mather, London. Lettering under camera for TV commercials.
McCann Ericson, London. Lettering under camera for TV commercials.
Her Majesty's Crown Office at the House of Lords, London. Letters patent awarded by HM Queen Elizabeth II to new members of the Life Peerage.
Heal's Ltd, London. Designed special logo to be used on all products for the Queen's Silver Jubilee.
New Zealand Tourist Board. Designed and hand lettered map to be printed and used for publicity purposes.
Beefeater Gin, London. Designed and executed presentation address to be given to President Gerald R Ford.
Worshipful Company of Leathersellers, London. Hand lettered invitations to be sent out for special dinners at Leathersellers Hall.
Worshipful Company of Fishmongers, London. Hand lettered several addresses presented to various members of the Royal Family.
City of London Red Cross Society. Designed publicity brochures for fund-raising.
University of London. Hand inscribing of graduate diplomas.
Evette Cosmetics, Lavenham, Suffolk. Design of cosmetic packaging involving the production of highly complex cardboard engineering and mock-ups.

In USA:
Pentalic Corporation, New York. Design of corporate logo and literature. Design of many products currently being marketed by Grumbacher.
Grumbacher, Cranbury, NJ. Cover design of Paper for Pencils.
RKO Century Warner, New York. Design of corporate identity, logo, and typeface for their exclusive use.
Karl Mann Associates, New York. Design of lettering for use in advertising.
Jack Lenor Larsen, New York. Design of logo and lettering for use in advertising.
Contemporary Books, Chicago. Design and lettering of titles for books on contemporary American life.
Leo Burnett Advertising, Chicago. Design and execution of Chinese calligraphic heading for use in Kellogg advertising.
Daheshi International, New York. Design and hand lettering of whole book for publication by the Lebanese organization.
New York Chamber of Commerce. Design and lettering for presentation address to Man of the Year.
Lincoln Center, New York. Concert advertising lettering.
New York State. Hand lettered award certificates.
Grand Central Galleries, New York. Signage for use throughout the galleries.
Frames Unlimited, New York. Logo design.
Taplinger Publishing, New York. Design of book jackets and calligraphic demonstrations.
Telarc International, Cleveland. Lettering and painting for use on CD covers.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Children's calligraphic demonstrations.
F A O Schwartz, New York. Children's calligraphic demonstrations.
Steig Products, Newark, NJ. Lettering on several art products.
Cachet, Inc. Garfield, NJ. Logo design and lettering for several paper products.
Dirt Devil. Design of product logo for advertising purposes.
St Johns University, MN. Design of brochure and logo for Servi Textus symposium
Congoleum. Design of new corporate logo.
Stone Gardens. Logo design for the new assisted living center in Cleveland.
Thoma and Thoma. Logo design for property development company in the West Indies.
Stone and Ward. Opus XIX logo for the Arkansas Symphony.

LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS:

Has taught and lectured widely throughout Europe, Australia and North America including:
In Europe -
London, Birmingham, Manchester,Ware, Monmouth and Hertford (in England), Wülfrath & Düsseldorf (in Germany), Saint-Raphael (in France).
In Australia -
Sydney, NSW; Melbourne, Victoria; Hobart, Tasmania; Adelaide, South Australia and Brisbane, Queensland.
In North America -
New York, Long Island, Larchmont and Nyack, NY, Hoboken, NJ, Philadelphia, PA, Miami, Orlando and Jacksonville, FL, Little Rock and Eureka Springs, AR, Pittsburgh, PA, Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati, OH, Detroit, MI, Chicago, IL Minneapolis/St. Paul and Collegeville, MN, St Mary City, MD, Denver, CO, Oklahoma City, OK, Los Angeles, Claremont and Santa Anita, CA, Norwalk and New Canaan, CT, Boston, MA, Madison, WI, Ottawa, ONT, Toronto, ONT, Montreal, QUE.

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