Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Artist of the day, January 14, 2020: Lindon Leader, an American graphic designer (#890)

Lindon Leader is a highly regarded American graphic designer. A recipient of more than 30 prestigious design awards worldwide, he studied at Stanford University and Art Center College of Design. Leader’s designs have been featured in various international publications. His work has also appeared in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution. He is also a well-established lecturer on corporate identity and brand management.

Lindon Leader is most known for his work designing the FedEx logo with the identifiable arrow as a counter created by the E and X. Designed in 1994 while working as senior design director in the San Francisco office of Landor Associates, a global brand consultancy known for executing strategy through design.

FedEx logo is often credited as one of the greatest and most popular logos ever designed, recently cited by Rolling Stone Magazine as one of the 10 best American identities in the last 40 years.

Leader has worked for some of the leading branding firms in the world, including Landor Associates, Addison, and Bass/Yager & Associates. In his illustrious career, Leader has supervised corporate identity programs for CIGNA, Dun & Bradstreet, Technicolor, Ryder Systems, DoubleTree Hotels, Banco Bradesco, Hawaiian Airlines, Intelsat and Progress Energy. He also served as Design Coordinator for the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee.

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Avery Office Products identity
FedEx identity
DoubleTree Corporation identity
CIGNA Corporation identity
Hawaiian Air identity
Hotel Hastings identity
Omni logotype
Park City
Novariant GPS
Ryder Systems Inc. identity
Ryder Systems Inc. manual
Technicolor, Inc. sign
XoJet
Women Ski Jumping USA
2008 Senior Games identity
Chiron identity
Fashion Park
Gary Dickey Photographer logo
Intelstat
New Orleans Square
Meridian identity
PCMCIA express manual cover
Seven College Alumnae Society
The Ledges identity
The MARC identity
The Walt Disney Company millennium
Axiomatic
Banco Bradesco, S.A. identity

Miners Club
Park City Recreation
Mavericks St Johns identity
Mavericks mark
povo.com
Spotted Frog identity
Utah Library Association logo
Ticket Machine identity
Teach Peace identity
Stoneridge mark
MGTV identity
Niya Arabians identity
Northridge logo
Sentinel identity
Silver Star identity
Utah Library Association banners
 

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