Background
Hollis was born in London and studied art and typography at Chelsea School of Art, Wimbledon School of Art and Central School of Art and Crafts in London before moving to Paris in the early 1960s.
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Richard Hollis
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Central School of Art and Design.
Career
Hollis has worked as a printer, a magazine editor, a print-production manager, a book writer, a teacher and a graphic designer. Back in the United Kingdom he designed the quarterly journal Modern Poetry In Translation, became the art editor of the weekly magazine New Society and later created John Berger’s Ways of Seeing (a highly influential book based on a British Broadcasting Corporation television series) – in two stages Hollis designed the visual identity and marketing material for the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London. He is perhaps best known for his best-selling Graphic Design.
A Concise History and more recently Swiss Graphic Design: The Origins and Growth of an International Style, 1920-1965.
Hollis was elected Royal Designer for Industry in 2005. He lives and works in London.
