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| birth_place = Derby, England, UK | occupation = Graphic designer | nationality = British | years_active = | website = }} 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.〔(Entry for Michael Johnson on Debrett's People of Today )〕 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.〔(Article about the Beatles stamps in the ''New York Times'' )〕 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,〔(Past presidents of D&AD )〕 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.〔(''The Guardian's'' Top 50 designers )〕 D&AD named his as the seventh most awarded designer in its history in its fifty year celebrations in 2012.〔(D&AD's Seventh Most Awarded designer in D&AD's history )〕 The second edition of his first book Problem Solved〔(Problem Solved (first edition) on the Phaidon website )〕 was published in autumn 2012.〔(Problem Solved (second edition) on the Phaidon website )〕 The Guardian has described Johnson as ‘Bright, fluent, relentlessly articulate’,〔(Article from Campaign Magazine )〕 Design Week said ‘Johnson has a knack of being able to distil the complex, diffuse or workaday down into simple, intelligent, witty messages’.〔(Article in Design Week magazine )〕 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’〔Zappaterra, Yolanda (1999). ''Typography: Real-world typographic projects - from brief to finished solution'', p.116. Rotovision SA, Switzerland. ISBN 2-88046-469-2.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Michael Johnson (graphic designer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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