Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Artist of the day, September 25: Burton Kramer, Canadian graphic designer and artist.

Burton Kramer (1932) is a prominent Canadian graphic designer and artist.

Born in New York City. After graduating from Yale University with an MFA in Graphic Design, and a BSc From The Institute of Design, Chicago in Visual Communication, Kramer began working in the late 1950s for Will Burtin, then as Assistant Art Director of "The Architectural Record", for Geigy Chemical and Pharmaceuticals, and then as Art Director at the Erwin Halpern advertising agency in Zurich, Switzerland. He moved to Toronto in late 1965 and his work was prominent at Expo 67, where he designed the map - directory system, among other contributions. His work from this period shows the influence of Op Art. He has pieces featured in the Smithsonian Institution and the Library of Congress. He has archives of his work in the collections of the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, and the Vignelli Center at Rochester Institute of Technology.
CBC logo (1974) designed by Burton Kramer

He is well known for designing the distinctive 1974 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation logo, consisting of a stylized letter "C" (for Canada) radiating in all directions, representing broadcasting. In 1966-67, he was Director of Corporate Design for Clairtone, redesigning their logo and many other aspects of their graphic identity.

In late 1967 he founded Kramer Design Associates Limited, a multi-media firm specializing in corporate I.D. Programs, signage systems and print. Kramer was a professor at the Ontario College of Art and Design (part-time faculty) for 21 years, lectured at Universities in Mexico, Canada, the U.S.A. and Switzerland. He has been a member of AGI. Alliance Graphique Internationale and an Academician of the Royal Canadian Academy of Art since 1974. He is listed in Who's Who in American Art, Canadian Who's Who, Who's who in The World, and many others.

Since about 2001, Kramer’s focus has shifted from design to painting. His abstract, geometry-based, lyrical, colorist paintings have been shown regularly in galleries in Europe, Mexico, Colombia, the USA and Canada.

© 2018. All images are copyrighted © by Burton Kramer. The use of any image from this site is prohibited unless prior written permission is obtained.




Mr Burton Kramer

1961, BC Hydro

1967, Clairtone Sound Corp

1970-OECA

1974, CBC Standards


1975, Reed paper logo

1985, North American Life mark

 Burton Kramer Identities

 Burton Kramer Identities

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation standards

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation identity

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation


Hallmark Hotels mark

Studio Magazine Cover  Logos

10th International Sculpture Conference

1960, Geigy Ad Whitening

1966, pictograms Expo 67

1976, Aid to Writing and Publication

Canada's 28th Parliament

Expo 67 and GDC

Geigy industrial Chemical-Tinuvin P

Northwestern Ontario- A Policy for Development

Stamps

Teachers Guide Series OECA Toronto

1965 Halpern NY Zurich



1963-64, New year

968 New Guinea

968 Origins Chintz

Events summer 1982

 ROM Minerology

Science Health, Primary Division, teachers' guide

Television Production Workshop

Floodlight Packs


His paintings

All That Jazz #2

All That Jazz #1

Beach music

Blue Tube, (#2 of 15)

Cantata #4

Cirque #3

Fanfare  #6

Flicker Yellow

Fugue

 Hexagons (#2 of 15)

Moog music 5csq2

Moog music #5d

Moog music #9

Oasis Detail

Pentagrams (#2 of 15)

Pink Hearts, (#29 of 70)

Radiant

Rondo

 Silver Hearts, (#35 of 125)

Summer Sun

TR3

TTH Series

Vivace

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