Michael Doret is a designer, lettering artist, and illustrator based in Pasadena, California. He has created logos, album covers, magazine covers, and art for various brands in media, advertising, and sports, including the New York Knicks, MLB, TIME, Playboy, Wired, TV Guide, Capitol Records, Columbia Records, Walt Disney Motion Pictures, and Universal Studios. He also designed the American Eagle, and Summer Harvest postage for the United States Postal Service.
Doret grew up in Brooklyn, NY near Coney Island and is a graduate of the Cooper Union in New York City. He began his work by opening a small design studio in New York and eventually moved to Los Angeles. Along with his design studio, Doret owns AlphabetSoup Type Founders which distributes his original font designs through his own website.
Five TIME covers by Michael Doret are included in the permanent collection at The National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC. Michael designed the logos for The Graphic Artists Guild, the New York Knicks, and many other notable institutions. He has worked extensively within the music industry, including creating two album covers for Kiss: Rock and Roll Over and Sonic Boom.
Doret is an eight-time winner of the New York Art Directors Club Silver Award. His 3D Bedlam Ballroom CD package designed for Squirrel Nut Zippers was nominated for a Grammy award for "Best Recording Package" at the 44th Grammy Awards in 2002. His font "Deliscript" was chosen by the Type Directors Club to receive the prestigious "Certificate of Excellence in Type Design" in the display fonts category for their TDC² 2010 Typeface Design Competition. His serigraph for PowerStation was a Graphis Gold Award winner.
Doret has recently taught workshops in New York City, San Francisco, and France. A book detailing his career in design will be published in 2021 by Letterform Archive.
© 2020. All content on this blog is protected by international copyright laws All images are copyrighted © by Michael Doret. Apart from fair dealing for the purpose of private study, research, criticism or review as permitted under the Copyright Act, the use of any image from this site is prohibited unless prior written permission is obtained. All images used for illustrative purposes only
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| Michael Doret at a museum opening, 2015 |
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| Savages Title Treatment, 1972 |
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| Zardoz Title Treatment, 1973 |
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| Alien Title Treatment, 1979 |
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| Wolfen Title Treatment, 1980 |
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| Pineapple Stamp proposal, 2003 |
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| Summer Harvest Stamps for USPS, 2013 |
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Cry-Baby exploration, 2007
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| Dracula logo, 2011 |
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Steinweiss Script font, 2010
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| Peace of Candy logo, 2012 |
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| Route 66: Candy Americana logo, 2012 |
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Tinseltown logo, 2012
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| Lollywood logo, 2012 |
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Wreck-It-Ralph title, 2011
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| Sassafras logo, 2012 |
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| 60 Second Green, 2009 |
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American Contemporary Ballet signage, 2013
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Hershey logo and signage, 2002
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| Big Hero 6 title treatment, 2013 |
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Moana title treatment, 2014
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| Zootopia title treatment, 2014 |
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Coco title treatment, 2015
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Iron Oxide logo and signage, 2012
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| Simon & Garfunkel concert poster, 1981 |
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The 12 Signs of the Jewish Zodiac: Chicken soup, 2008
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The 12 Signs of the Jewish Zodiac: Knish, 2008
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The 12 Signs of the Jewish Zodiac: Bagel, 2008
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The 12 Signs of the Jewish Zodiac: Blintz, 2008
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