Doyald Young was an American typeface designer and teacher who specialized in the design of logotypes, corporate alphabets, and typefaces.

Work

The typefaces designed by Doyald Young include Young Baroque, ITC Éclat, Home Run, and the formal script Young Gallant.

Commissions for logotypes and trademarks include the industrial design firm of Henry Dreyfuss Associates, California Institute of Technology

California Institute of Technology

The California Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Pasadena, California, United States. Caltech has six academic divisions with strong emphases on science and engineering...

, University of California

University of California

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 at Los Angeles, exhibition catalogs for UCLA’s Clark Memorial Library, The Music Center of Los Angeles County, Mattel Toys, Max Factor

Max Factor

Max Factor & Company is a cosmetics company, founded during 1909 by Maksymilian Faktorowicz , Max Factor, a Polish-Jewish cosmetician. Max Factor & Company was a related, two-family, multi-generational international cosmetics company before its sale in 1973 for $500 million dollars...

, Vidal Sassoon

Vidal Sassoon

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 and Prudential Insurance. With Don Bartels, designed the font for General Electric Company’s corporate identity program. His life story and working method is profiled in the Lynda.com "Creative Inspirations" video Doyald Young: Logotype Designer.

His entertainment credits include: Liza Minnelli

Liza Minnelli

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 and Frank Sinatra

Frank Sinatra

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 specials, Disney’s 30th Anniversary Celebration, Harry Connick Jr., k.d. lang

K.D. Lang

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, Bette Midler

Bette Midler

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, Prince

Prince (musician)

Prince Rogers Nelson , often known simply as Prince, is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. Prince has produced ten platinum albums and thirty Top 40 singles during his career. Prince founded his own recording studio and label; writing, self-producing and playing most, or all, of...

, The Grand Reopening of Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall

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, The Grammy Awards, The Annual Academy of Country Music Awards, The Golden Globe Awards, and The Tony Awards, and most recently, the Art Directors Guild

Art Directors Guild

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 logo.

Teaching

Young was a teacher at Art Center College of Design

Art Center College of Design

Art Center College of Design is a private college located in Pasadena, California, and was cited by BusinessWeek as one of the 60 best design schools in the world. The college’s industrial design program is consistently ranked number one by both DesignIntelligence and U.S...

, where he taught lettering, logo design, and typographic basics from 1955 to 1978, and again from 1998 until his passing in 2011.

Honors

His book Fonts and Logos was awarded a Silver Medal by the Western Art Directors Club, November 2000. In 2001 Art Center College of Design named him Inaugural Master of the School for teaching and his contribution to the field of art and design. In 2009 AIGA

Aiga

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 awarded him the prestigious AIGA Medal for his contributions to the field of graphic design

Graphic design

Graphic design is a creative process – most often involving a client and a designer and usually completed in conjunction with producers of form – undertaken in order to convey a specific message to a targeted audience...

. On December 18, 2010 Art Center College of Design

Art Center College of Design

Art Center College of Design is a private college located in Pasadena, California, and was cited by BusinessWeek as one of the 60 best design schools in the world. The college’s industrial design program is consistently ranked number one by both DesignIntelligence and U.S...

 bestowed on him an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters.

External links

• "Delphi Press"
• "Doyald Young's website"
• "Doyald Young, Logotype Designer video portrait"