Richard Hollis

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Richard Hollis
Hon.
Royal Designer for Industry
, 2005
Websitewww.richardhollis.com

Richard Hollis Hon.

FRSL (born 1934) is a British graphic designer. He has taught at various art schools, written books, and worked as a printer, as a magazine editor and as a print-production manager. Hollis was elected as an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
in 2019.

Biography

Hollis was born in

Wimbledon School of Art and Central School of Art and Crafts in London, before moving to Paris in the early 1960s.[2]

Back in the UK, he designed the quarterly journal

West of England College of Art.[5]

His About Graphic Design was published in 2017,[6] Graphic Design. A Concise History in 2001,[7] and Swiss Graphic Design: The Origins and Growth of an International Style, 1920–1965 in 2006.[8] Hollis's body of work consistently suggests a strong connection between graphic design and the cultural and social conditions that inspire it.[5]

In 2005, he was made one of the two hundred

Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.[9]

Hollis's About Graphic Design was published in 2012 by Occasional Papers.[10] The book, which was also designed by Hollis, is a comprehensive selection of writings covering over 40 years of reflection on graphic design history, including interviews, essays, letters, articles, lectures and course outlines.[citation needed]

Hollis's book Henry van de Velde: The Artist as Designer (2019) was the first major study of van de Velde's work in English in 30 years; it was supported by the Flemish government and published by Occasional Papers.[11]

In 2019, Hollis was elected as an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.[12] He was also made an Honorary Fellow of the University of the Arts London in 2019.[13][14]

Personal life

In 1974, Hollis married illustrator and writer Posy Simmonds.[1]

Bibliography

  • Graphic Design: A Concise History, London: Thames & Hudson, 1994; 2nd enlarged edition, 2001 (also in French, Spanish, Portuguese and Chinese).
  • (With Lutz Becker) Avant-Garde Graphics 1918–1934, London: Hayward Gallery, 2004.
  • Swiss Graphic Design: The Origins and Growth of an International Style, London: Laurence King (UK),
    ISBN 978-1-85669-487-2
    ; New Haven: Yale University Press; and as Schweizer Grafik, Basel: Birkhäuser, 2005.
  • About Graphic Design, Occasional Papers, 2012,
    ISBN 978-0-9569623-1-7
    .
  • Henry van de Velde: The Artist as Designer, from Art Nouveau to Modernism, Occasional Papers, 2019,
    ISBN 978-0-9954730-5-8
    .

References

  1. ^ a b Wilson, Christopher (Spring 2006). "Reputations: Richard Hollis" (interview by Christopher Wilson). London: Eye Magazine (59). Archived 6 August 2012.
  2. ISBN 978-1-85669-422-3
    .
  3. ISBN 0-14-013515-4
    (pbk).
  4. ^ Wilson, Christopher. "Richard Hollis designs for the Whitechapel: a graphic designer and an art gallery in twentieth-century London". Hyphen Press. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  5. ^
    S2CID 143738261
    .
  6. ISBN 978-0-9569623-1-7
    .
  7. ISBN 0-500-20347-4
    .
  8. ISBN 978-1-85669-487-2
    .
  9. ^ Current Royal Designers: Updated: May 2008. Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. Archived 30 September 2008.
  10. ^ "About Graphic Design", Occasional Papers.
  11. ISBN 978-0-9954730-5-8
    .
  12. ^ Mansfield, Katie (25 June 2019). "RSL celebrates Levy as Baddiel, Beard and Fry made Fellows". The Bookseller. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  13. ^ "Honoraries | Richard Hollis". UAL. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  14. ^ "Honorary Awards 2019". UAL. Retrieved 6 February 2023.

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