Michael Johnson (graphic designer)

Michael Johnson

Michael Johnson in 2010
Born (1964-04-26) 26 April 1964
Derby, England, UK
Nationality British
Occupation Graphic designer
Website www.johnsonbanks.co.uk

Michael Johnson (born 1964, Derby) is a British designer and brand consultant. In 1992 he founded design studio johnson banks in London, UK.

Biography

After graduating Michael worked as a designer and consultant for Wolff Olins, Sedley Place, Smith and Milton, London; Billy Blue and Emery Vincent, in Melbourne and Sydney; and Dentsu, Tokyo.[1]

In 1992 he set up johnson banks and went on to advise and create brands for clients including Virgin Atlantic, Science Museum (UK), Shelter (UK), The Guggenheim Foundation (New York, USA), Sendai Space Observatory (Japan) and Pew Center for Arts and Culture (Philadelphia, USA). As well as creating visual identities for a range of clients, Johnson has designed various posters and stamps including a set celebrating The Beatles for Royal Mail in 2006.[2]

In addition Johnson writes for many design journals, judges design competitions and lectures worldwide as far afield as Toronto, Tokyo, Berlin and Goa on branding, identity issues and design history. He has won most of the design world’s most prestigious awards (including eight D&AD ‘pencils’), has nearly twenty designs in the V&A’s permanent collection and was D&AD President in 2003,[3] one of the youngest presidents ever. The Independent Newspaper selected him as one of the 10 most notable British Designers in 2003, and in 2009 The Guardian Newspaper named him as one of the UK’s top 50 designers.[4] D&AD named his as the seventh most awarded designer in its history in its fifty year celebrations in 2012.[5] The second edition of his first book Problem Solved[6] was published in autumn 2012.[7]

The Guardian has described Johnson as ‘Bright, fluent, relentlessly articulate’,[8] Design Week said ‘Johnson has a knack of being able to distil the complex, diffuse or workaday down into simple, intelligent, witty messages’.[9] In the late nineties, The Sunday Times described Johnson as ‘The Government’s favourite designer’. He has been named ‘One of Europe’s finest graphic designers’[10]

Awards and recognition

D&AD Awards

Design Week Awards

Design Week Creative Survey

Art Directors Club of New York Awards

Other Awards

Exhibitions

Solo

Group

Bibliography

As author

As contributor

Solo monographs

Featured in

References

  1. Entry for Michael Johnson on Debrett's People of Today
  2. Article about the Beatles stamps in the New York Times
  3. Past presidents of D&AD
  4. The Guardian's Top 50 designers
  5. D&AD's Seventh Most Awarded designer in D&AD's history
  6. Problem Solved (first edition) on the Phaidon website
  7. Problem Solved (second edition) on the Phaidon website
  8. Article from Campaign Magazine
  9. Article in Design Week magazine
  10. Zappaterra, Yolanda (1999). Typography: Real-world typographic projects - from brief to finished solution, p.116. Rotovision SA, Switzerland. ISBN 2-88046-469-2.
  11. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Debrett's People of Today entry on Michael Johnson
  12. Page about the Black Pencil award winning project Fruit & veg stamps
  13. "Creative Survey", Design Week, London, 1999.
  14. "Creative Survey", Design Week, London, 2004.
  15. 1 2 "Creative Survey", Design Week, London, November 2006.
  16. Beatles stamps on the New York Art Director's Club website
  17. Miller, Anistatia.R (1993). The 72nd Art Directors Annual, p.417. RotoVision, SA. ISBN 2-88046-193-6.
  18. Fruit & Veg stamps on the New York Art Director's Club website
  19. Glenfiddich Barrel Art on the New York Art Director's Club website
  20. Davis, Myrna (1995). The 74th Art Directors Annual, p.335. RotoVision, SA. ISBN 2-88046-244-4.
  21. Lenthe, Antje (1997). The 76th Art Directors Annual, p.137. RotoVision, SA. ISBN 2-88046-340-8.
  22. Lenthe, Antje (1997). The 76th Art Directors Annual, p.203. RotoVision, SA. ISBN 2-88046-340-8.
  23. Lenthe, Antje (1997). The 76th Art Directors Annual, p.311. RotoVision, SA. ISBN 2-88046-340-8.
  24. Davis, Myrna (2003). Art Directors Annual 82, p.328. RotoVision, SA. ISBN 2-88046-775-6.
  25. Davis, Myrna (2005). Art Directors Annual 84, p.270. RotoVision, SA. ISBN 2-940361-22-3.Think London on the New York Art Director's Club website
  26. Johnson Banks's works held by the V&A
  27. Michael Johnson listed in the Design Week Hot 50 in 2011
  28. Hilpern, Kate (2003). "The Top Brass: the 10 leading graphic designers in Britain, as chosen by their fellow experts", The Independent Newspaper, London, 2003.
  29. "The Top 50", The Guardian, London, 1 September 2007.
  30. 7th Most awarded designer in D&AD's 50 year history
  31. Exhibition listing on Tokyo Art Beat
  32. Past event listing on Arup website
  33. Exhibition summary on the V&A website
  34. Rewind exhibition microsite
  35. Exhibition summary on the Barbican website
  36. Exhibition summary on the Design Museum's website
  37. Article about the exhibition on the Design Boom website
  38. Exhibition website
  39. Article about the exhibition on the Creative Review website
  40. Entry on London Design Festival website

External links


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