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DOYALD YOUNG, Typographer/Educator/Author, and an AIGA Distinguished Medal of Honor Recipient
So how do you get to be one of the greats of graphic design? If Doyald Young is the example, start with a well-rounded education in life, study with the masters, pay homage to your mentors, work hard, work long and, like the old joke about how to get to Carnegie Hall (for which he has also designed), practice, man, practice.
Doyald’s “first encounter with a square-tipped rigger brush” came while writing point-of-purchase show cards for W. T. Grant’s five-and-dime store in the 1940s in Los Angeles. Later, he enrolled in evening classes at Frank Wiggins Trade School, followed by instruction at Art Center by Mortimer Leach at Art Center during the 1950s. Doyald began to teach lettering himself at Art Center first as Leach’s assistant in 1955 then on his own in 1957 and began his freelance career which continues to this day. He taught from 1955 –1978, followed by 1997–present.
Doyald’s influential body of work includes logotypes for hotels, clubs, universities, cosmetics, financials, arts and practically every other industry, and includes many of the biggest names: Hilton, Prudential, Max Factor, Sony.