Elton Robinson
Education:
University of Michigan (BS in Design ’55)
Yale University (MFA ’57)
Professional experience:
Designer or art director of magazines (Horizon, Art in
America, Holiday, Fortune, Life Special Reports, Foreign Affairs and People) and books (among others: The American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War, Three Centuries of American Art, The Artist in America, David Smith by David Smith, thirty titles for The Adventure Library, Bruce Davidson’s East 100th Street and Bruce Davidson Photographs, Peter Jennings and Todd Brewster’s The Century and In Search of America, James Tobin’s Great Projects, and Kunhardt Productions’ P. T. Barnum, The American President, Looking for Lincoln, and Lincoln, Life-Size)
Art Director for Public Affairs at Exxon Corporation for ten years (1977–1987), designing the corporate magazine The Lamp, annual reports, and graphics for assorted Exxon-supported programs at PBS (including Robert Hughes’s The Shock of the New), exhibitions at the Guggenheim Museum, and other arts programs.
Vice-president of Jack Hough Associates from 1987–1992, designing annual reports and other publications for major corporations including Dupont, Procter & Gamble, Xerox, American Home Products, and Merrill Lynch.
Free-lance since 1992, serving a wide range of corporate, nonprofit, and publishing clients.
Awards from The Art Directors’ Clubs of New York, Detroit, and Connecticut, The Society of Publication Designers, The American Institute of Graphic Arts, the Society of Illustrators, and other professional organizations.
