Angus Hyland

1963

Brighton, East Sussex

After running his own successful studio in Soho in London for ten years, he became a partner in Pentagram"s London offices in 1998. He has worked with a wide range of private and public sector clients including AkzoNobel, Asprey, the British Broadcasting Corporation, the British Council, the British Museum, Canongate Books, Cass Art, Citibank, the Crafts Council, Daishin Securities, EAT., Getty Images, Grant Thornton International, Nokia, Penguin, Phaidon Press, Pocket Canons, Reed Exhibitions, the Royal Academy of Arts, RoadBook, Sage, Samsung, The Sage Gateshead, Shakespeare"s Globe and the Tate Modern. In 2005, Hyland was appointed consultant creative director to Laurence King Publishing, where he oversees all aspects of design and brand management and is responsible for generating new book concepts. He also featured in Independent on Sunday"s" "Top Ten Graphic Designers in the United Kingdom". Hyland was the curator of "Picture This", a British Council touring exhibition featuring the work of contemporary London-based illustrators, and "Ballpoint", an exhibition featuring works by fifty artists created with or inspired by the traditional ballpoint pen. In 2002 he received an honorary Master of Arts from the Surrey Institute of Art & Design. In 2012 Hyland was made a visiting fellow at the University of the Arts London. Hyland is married to the illustrator Marion Deuchars.

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graphic designer

Education

Hyland studied information design at the London College of Printing and Graphic Art and Design at the Royal College of Artist

Career

After running his own successful studio in Soho in London for ten years, he became a partner in Pentagram"s London offices in 1998. He has worked with a wide range of private and public sector clients including AkzoNobel, Asprey, the British Broadcasting Corporation, the British Council, the British Museum, Canongate Books, Cass Art, Citibank, the Crafts Council, Daishin Securities, EAT., Getty Images, Grant Thornton International, Nokia, Penguin, Phaidon Press, Pocket Canons, Reed Exhibitions, the Royal Academy of Arts, RoadBook, Sage, Samsung, The Sage Gateshead, Shakespeare"s Globe and the Tate Modern. In 2005, Hyland was appointed consultant creative director to Laurence King Publishing, where he oversees all aspects of design and brand management and is responsible for generating new book concepts.

He also featured in Independent on Sunday"s" "Top Ten Graphic Designers in the United Kingdom".

Hyland was the curator of "Picture This", a British Council touring exhibition featuring the work of contemporary London-based illustrators, and "Ballpoint", an exhibition featuring works by fifty artists created with or inspired by the traditional ballpoint pen. In 2002 he received an honorary Master of Arts from the Surrey Institute of Art & Design.

In 2012 Hyland was made a visiting fellow at the University of the Arts London. Hyland is married to the illustrator Marion Deuchars.

Achievements

Hyland"s work has been widely published and exhibited and has received over one hundred creative awards including five Doctorate&AD Yellow Pencils and the Grand Prix from the Scottish Design Awards. The Purple Book, published in June 2013 received the Book of the Year Award from the British Book Design and Production Awards.

Membership

Hyland has edited six books on graphic design, and was elected a member of Alliance Graphique Internationale (Asterisk Gateway Interface) in 1999.

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Scottish Design Awards; the Year Award; the Grand Prix