Education
Miriello studied at Colorado State University and completed his design degree in Italy at Louisiana Poggerina, operated by the University of Texas.
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Career
In 2008, he was recognized as an American Institute of Graphic Arts national fellowship He divides his time between his graphic design warehouse, located in the Barrio Logan region of San Diego, California and Radicondoli, near Siena, Italy where he sculpts and documents the influences and traditions of Italian craftsmen. Ron Miriello served on the Design Innovation Institute advisory board, the San Diego Center City Advisory Council, Business Roundtable for Education, Commission for Arts and Culture/San Diego, Advisory board member for the San Diego Italian Film Festival.
Ron Miriello, Margo Chase, Rian Hughes and Alex White co-authored the book Really Good Logos Explained critiquing the logo work of top designers.
In the text, Miriello discusses how working designers must keep their thinking elastic and pliable and how this requires both right and left brain thinking at the same time. As a child, Miriello was fascinated with globes.
A sculptor, he produced 100 sculptures inspired by the metaphor of the world globe which culminated in the 100 Worlds Project exhibit. The exhibit incorporated craftspeople and makers as collaborators, reconnecting the arts with the guild tradition of craft.
Foreign this exhibition Miriello produced fifty interpreted globes, using a variety of materials that included antique pipe wrenches, bowling balls, the propellers of boats and corrugated cardboard.
The globes were then given to forty San Diego based photographers who spent a week with each sculpture and documented it through personal photography. Their original photographic prints were displayed at the Jett Gallery and included in an exhibition book In 1989, Miriello was instrumental in acquiring an important collection of 300 historical graphic posters from the government of the Soviet Union that depicted contemporary Soviet life in the periods during Perestroika and Glasnost.
The rare collection of posters held at the Louisiana Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, showcased political themes, social issues and the arts
The collection then traveled to a variety of United States. locations, after the fall of the Soviet Union. In March 2013, the Soviet Poster Show collection was uncrated at the City Gallery in a new exhibition called Dialogues in downtown San Diego.
The Soviet historical posters were featured alongside new works created by contemporary artists, designers and illustrators including Sean Adams, Rafael López, Joel Nakamura and Michael Osborne, among others To complement their historical counterparts the new posters featured political, social and arts themes as well as a visual or conceptual reference to Soviet culture.
Membership
Miriello is the director of Miriello Grafico and a founding member of the San Diego Chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts. Working with members of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (American Institute of Graphic Arts) San Diego chapter, this exhibition was supported by a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts.
