Richard Hollis
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Richard Hollis 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.
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
(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 and more recently Swiss Graphic Design: The Origins and Growth of an International Style, 1920-1965.
Hollis was elected Royal Designer for Industry in 2005; he lives and works in London.
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...
. 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
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
in the early 1960s.
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
Ways of Seeing
Ways of Seeing is a 1972 BBC four-part television series of 30 minute films created chiefly by writer John Berger and producer Mike Dibb. Berger's scripts were adapted into a book of the same name. The series and book criticize traditional Western cultural aesthetics by raising questions about...
(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 and more recently Swiss Graphic Design: The Origins and Growth of an International Style, 1920-1965.
Hollis was elected Royal Designer for Industry in 2005; he lives and works in London.