Artist of the day: Artist of the Day, February 14, 2023: Brian Collins, an American designer, creative director, and educator (#1778)

Brian Collins is a designer, creative director, and educator. He is the founder of COLLINS a brand and experience design firm based in San Francisco and New York. The firm was named by Forbes as one of the companies transforming the future of brand building. He was the first graphic designer invited to speak at the World Economic Forum in Davos. He is a board member of the One Club for Creativity, and has been a professor at the School of Visual Arts since 2001. He is a Distinguished Alumnus of the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and has received an Honorary Doctorate from the Art Center College of Design. Fast Company named him an American Master of Design in 2005.

Over his career, Brian has won every major creative award. His work has been featured in The New York Times, Forbes, Creativity, Fortune, Graphis, NBC News, ABC News and Fast Company, which named him an American Master of Design. Business Week named his work for Hershey in Times Square as a retail “Wonder of the World.” His team’s design of Helios House in Los Angeles, the first gas station using environmentally sustainable principles, is included in The Cooper Hewitt National Museum of Design.

For ten years prior to the founding of COLLINS, Brian was Chief Creative Officer of the Brand Integration Group (BIG), the design and innovation division of Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide. Brian’s clients have included Spotify, Facebook, Airbnb, Target, Levi Strauss & Co., Coca-Cola, Mattel, Instagram, The Miller Brewing Company, IBM, Jaguar Cars, Unilever, NBC, Microsoft, and Nike. Brian was made a Distinguished Alumnus of the Massachusetts College of Art in 2004 and received an Honorary Doctorate from the Art Center College of Design in 2008.

He was the first graphic designer invited to participate in the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Brian’s team recently designed the AIGA 100th Anniversary Book and the Type Directors Club 60th Annual International Typography exhibition, using principles of generative typography.

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