Bob Gill (artist)

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Robert Charles Gill (January 17, 1931 – November 9, 2021) was an American illustrator and graphic designer.

Biography

Robert Charles Gill was born on January 17, 1931, in Brooklyn, New York.^[1]

Gill played the

Gill acted as a film title designer in several films, including several films of Ray Harryhausen.^{[citation needed]}

In 1960 after an interview in a New York hotel room for a job in London, he moved to the UK to work for Charles Hobson.^{[citation needed]}

April Fool's Day, 1962, Gill,

In 1967, Gill left the partnership and assumed independent freelancing again, including teaching, filmmaking and writing children’s books. He returned to New York in 1975 to write and design Beatlemania, the largest multimedia musical up to that time on Broadway, on which he worked with Robert Rabinowitz.^[2] He also proposed a peace monument for Times Square, Gill wanted to collect military junk from all over the world, pile it 40 feet high, spray it matte black, and mount it on a block of white marble. The New York City Fine Arts Commission did not like the idea.^[3]

For his graphic design work, Gill has won a number of awards, sold illustrations to

He lived in New York with his wife, New York Public Radio's Sara Fishko. They had a son, Jack Gill, and a daughter, Kate Gill.^[4] Gill died on November 9, 2021, in Brooklyn, aged 90.^[1]

Teaching posts

• 1955–1960, School of Visual Arts (SVA), Manhattan
• 1959, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn
• 1967–1969, Central School of Art and Design, London
• 1969, Chelsea School of Art (now
  Chelsea College of Art and Design
  ), London
• 1970–1975, Royal College of Art (RCA), London
• 1972–1974, Hornsey School of Art, London
• 1981–1983, Parsons School of Design (now
  Parsons The New School for Design
  ), Manhattan
• 1992–1994, School of Visual Arts (SVA), Manhattan
• 2003–2011, Graduate Communications Department, Pratt Institute, Manhattan

Awards (partial)

• 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

Books written

• 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. |
  ISBN 0-87592-025-X
  )
• 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. |
  ISBN 0-8230-1863-6
• Graphic Design Made Difficult, New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1992. |
  ISBN 0-442-01098-2
• Unspecial Effects for Graphic Designers, New York: Graphis, 2001 |
  ISBN 1-931241-00-7
• Graphic Design as a Second Language, Victoria: Images Publishing Group, 2003 |
  ISBN 1-920744-39-8
• Illustration, Victoria: Images Publishing Group, 2004 |
  ISBN 1-920744-73-8
• LogoMania, Gloucester: Rockport Publishers, 2006 |
  ISBN 1-59253-252-7
• Words Into Pictures, Victoria: Images Publishing Group, 2009 |
  ISBN 1-86470-326-1
• Bob Gill, so far., London: Laurence King Publishing, 2011 |
  ISBN 1-85669-819-X

• “Bob Gill” in Morgan, Ann (1984). Contemporary Designers, New York: Macmillan. |
  ISBN 0-333-33524-4
• Baglee, Patrick (1999). “Reputations: Bob Gill”, an interview, Eye magazine, vol. 33, no. 9, Autumn. [1]

External links

• Bob Gill discography at Discogs
• Bob Gill at
  IMDb