Alexander Max Isley, American Graphic designer, lecturer. Recipient Herb Lubalin Memorial award Art Dirs. Club New York, 1984, more than 200 awards for design and art direction; work is in permanent design collection Smithsonian Institution; National Endowment for Arts fellow, 1984. Member American Center Design, American Institute Graphic Arts, Society Public Designers, Society Environmental Graphic Designers.
Background
Alexander Isley was born in Durham, North Carolina and studied at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (high school visual arts diploma), North Carolina State University College of Design (BEDV) and the Cooper Union School of Art (Bachelor of Fine Arts) in New New York
Education
Bachelor of Education, North Carolina State University, 1983. Bachelor of Fine Arts, Cooper Union, 1984.
Career
M & Company (design firm) 1984-1986 According to his firm"s online biography, "Alex first gained recognition in the early 1980s as the senior designer at Tibor Kalman"s influential M&Company" Spy Magazine 1987-1988 Alexander Isley Incorporated. Designers 1988- Isley is the principal and Creative Director of Alexander Isley Incorporated., the firm he founded in 1988 in New York City. Since 2005 the company has been located in Redding, Connecticut.
Educator School of Visual Arts, Instructor, Design and Typography, 1988-1990 The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, Instructor, Exhibit Design, 1992 Yale School of Art, Critic and Lecturer, 1996-2011 Other professional and not for profit affiliations American Institute of Graphic Arts New York, Board member, 1988-1990 American Institute of Graphic Arts New York, Chapter President, 2004-2006 American Institute of Graphic Arts Connecticut, Advisory Board member, 2008- The Cooper Union, Alumni Council North Carolina State University College of Design, Leaders Council, 2011- Asterisk Gateway Interface, Alliance Graphique Internationale, admitted 1998 Honors and Terry Sanford Scholarship to the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, 1979 Alexander Isley is married to Veronica Burke.
They have three children.
Membership
Member American Center Design, American Institute Graphic Arts, Society Public Designers, Society Environmental Graphic Designers, Alliance Graphique International.
Connections
Max and Jane (Skinner) I.