Mike Dempsey (graphic designer)

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Mike Dempsey is a British practising graphic designer. He has been trained in calligraphy and typography^[1] since 1964.

Career[]

From the late 1960s Dempsey worked as an art director for two leading British publishing houses, William Heinemann^[2] and William Collins & Sons^{[citation needed]}. In 1979 he founded the London-based design consultancy Carroll & Dempsey which later became .^[3] He created stamps for the Royal Mail,^[4] feature film title sequences for Ridley Scott, Louis Malle, Dennis Potter, David Hare and Bruce Beresford, the brand identity for English National Opera,^[5] and South Bank Centre^[6] to the resigning of the Royal National Theatre and the Royal Opera House.^{[citation needed]}

His personal work has earned him many awards including 10 silver and the coveted gold award from British Design & Art Direction (D&AD).^[4] He has acted as Design Advisor to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport,^[7] and he is a prolific stamp designer and was appointed consultant art director by Royal Mail to create the two year Millennium stamp programme during 1999 to 2001^[8] and was the Art Director of the from 1997 to 2002 and is a past President of Design & Art Direction (D&AD).^[9]

He is a regular feature writer for Design Week^{[citation needed]} and has written for Creative Review, Blueprint, The Times, Grafik, V&A magazine and many other publications on design and related issues.^{[citation needed]} RDIinsights is a monthly recorded series, devised and presented by Dempsey, featuring interviews with world class designers, across all disciplines. He was made a Royal Designer for Industry (RDI) in 1994^[10] and was elected a member of in 1998.^[11] He was Master of the Faculty of Royal Designers for Industry from 2005 to 2007^[12] and is currently the external design advisor to the Design Council.^[13] In 2007 he left CDT Design and founded Studio Dempsey.^[14]

References[]

External links[]

• Fontana Modern Masters Dempsey's time as Art Director of Fontana Books in 1974-79.