Bob Gill

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Bob Gill (born January 17, 1931 in Brooklyn ) is an American illustrator and graphic designer .

Life

Bob Gill studied at the Philadelphia Museum School of Art from 1948 to 1951 , moved to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1951 and moved back to New York in 1952 to study at the City College of New York until 1955 . To pay for his tuition, he gave piano concerts in vacation spots like the Catskill Mountains in New York.

He also designed several film titles and posters, including for films by Ray Harryhausen .

In 1960 he moved to London to work for Charles Hobson in the advertising agency Hack Advertising Agency, which was later sold to Gray Advertising (now Gray Global Group ).

On April 1, 1962, he founded the design studio Fletcher / Forbes / Gill together with Alan Fletcher and Colin Forbes , which paved the way for the design agency Pentagram. After F / F / G sold more than 100,000 copies of their book Graphik Design: Visual Comparisons , the studio expanded and opened a second office in Geneva . At the same time, the partners started the Designers and Art Directors Association D&AD .

In 1967, Gill separated from the design studio F / F / G and started working as a freelancer again. He accepted teaching positions, produced films and wrote several children's books. After moving back to New York in 1975, he wrote and designed the multimedia Broadway musical Beatlemania with Robert Rabinowitz . He also campaigned for a peace monument to be built for Times Square . His idea was to stack garbage from military stations around the world in a pile about 12 meters high, spray it with matt black and finally put it on a white marble block. However, the New York City Fine Arts Commission rejected this idea.

Bob Gill has won several awards for his work in graphic design and has sold his illustrations to a number of magazines, including The Nation , Esquire and Fortune. He also worked a. a. also for the record company Apple Corps , the Rainbow Theater and Universal Pictures .

In 1991 he was inducted into the New York Art Directors Club Hall of Fame and received the Lifetime Achievement Award from D&AD .

He lives in New York with his wife, Sara Fishko , son and daughter.

Teaching assignments

Selected prices

  • 1955, Gold Medal, New York Art Directors Club , for a CBS television title, US
  • 1999, President's Award, D&AD (British Design & Art Direction), UK

Publications

  • Bob Gill's Portfolio , Amsterdam: Wim Crouwel / Stedelijk Museum, 1967
  • Bob Gill's Portfolio , London: Lund Humphries, 1968
  • I Keep Changing , New York: Scroll Press, 1971.
  • Bob Gill's New York , London: Kynoch Press, 1971.
  • Ups & Downs , Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley, 1974.
  • Forget All the Rules You Ever Learned About Graphic Design, Including the Ones in this Book , New York: Watson-Guptill, 1981. |
  • Graphic Design Made Difficult , New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1992.
  • Unspecial Effects for Graphic Designers , New York: Graphis, 2001
  • Graphic Design as a Second Language , Victoria: Images Publishing Group, 2003
  • Illustration , Victoria: Images Publishing Group, 2004
  • LogoMania , Gloucester: Rockport Publishers, 2006
  • Words Into Pictures , Victoria: Images Publishing Group, 2009
  • Bob Gill, so far. , London: Laurence King Publishing, 2011

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bob Gill. Retrieved September 2, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Eye Magazine | Feature | Reputations: Bob Gill. Accessed September 2, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Bob Gill. Retrieved September 2, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Eye Magazine | Feature | Reputations: Bob Gill. Accessed September 2, 2017 .
  5. ↑ About D&AD . In: D&AD . ( dandad.org [accessed September 2, 2017]).
  6. ↑ Bob Gill . In: ADC • Global Awards & Club . ( adcglobal.org [accessed September 2, 2017]).
  7. ↑ Bob Gill . In: ADC • Global Awards & Club . ( adcglobal.org [accessed September 2, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Gill, Bob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American illustrator and graphic designer
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn