Originally Recorded 2017
Lecture: "From Mauerstrasse to Wall Street: A Designer's Journey"
Phillip Burton
"I can trace my desire to be a designer back to third grade, and everything I did along the way was intended to make that a reality. Along the way, I was influenced by things that convinced me that I should study at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Basel, Switzerland in a special program that was started by Armin Hofmann and Emil Ruder. My initial intention to study there for one year turned into five. In addition to Mr. Hofmann, my teachers included Kurt Hauert, Peter von Arx, André Gürtler, Max Schmid, and Wolfgang Weingart. I left the school with a new pair of eyes. I am interested in the formal aspects of design. Working that way has given me limitless joy. My life has included teaching-University of Houston, Rice University, Yale University, Yale Summer Program in Graphic Design in Brissago, Switzerland, and the University of Illinois at Chicago-as well as practicing design. A valuable combination. In addition to my current teaching responsibilities, I am a consultant for a global financial investment research company that seeks to empower people to take control of their own money. I never imagined I would be doing such work."
Philip Burton is a professor and studied at Kunstgewerbeschule, Basel, and has a BFA in graphic design from Philadelphia College of Art (now University of the Arts).
Burton has been instrumental in developing the University of Illinois at Chicago’s graphic design program. Since joining the faculty in 1989, he has established a pedagogical foundation that prioritizes the rigorous study of essential and timeless design components.
At the invitation of the University of Houston, Philip began his academic career in 1975, becoming head of the design program in only six months. During his time in Houston, he also taught in the Qualifying Graduate Program in the School of Architecture at Rice University. Together with Alvin Eisenman, Paul Rand, Bradbury Thompson, and Armin Hofmann, he taught graduate and undergraduate design students in the School of Art at Yale University over the next nine years. Between 1975 and 1996, he served as a coordinator and core faculty member in the five-week summer design workshop in Brissago, Switzerland, directed by Armin Hofmann. Other core faculty included Paul Rand, Herbert Matter, Pierre Mendell, Richard Sapper, and Wolfgang Weingart.
Burton was named a Fellow of the American Institute of Graphic Arts in 2003 and awarded the Julius Adams Stratton Prize for Intercultural Achievement by the Friends of Switzerland/Boston in 2016. In addition to his career as an educator, Philip has maintained an active freelance design practice. Recent clients have included SilverPepper Hedge Fund, The McKinsey Quarterly and Aviation Capital Management. Since 1992, he has served as design consultant to Morningstar, Inc., a global financial investment research company headquartered in Chicago.
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