Richard Guyatt

Richard Guyatt

Professor Richard Guyatt (born 1914, died 2007) was a British designer and academic who has been described as "one of the 20th century's most seminal figures in the world of graphic design". He was the youngest ever Professor at the Royal College of Art on his appointment in 1948, and was Rector of the Royal College of Art from 1978-81. He worked for the Royal College of Art for 34 years, and also acted as consultant designer to Wedgwood, WH Smith and other British companies. Guyatt created coins for the Royal Mint and designed postage stamps for the Royal Mail. He was made CBE in 1969.

In 1948, Guyatt invented the phrase "graphic design". For the 1951 Festival of Britain, he co-designed the successful star exhibit, which was the Lion and the Unicorn Pavilion.

Sir Hugh Casson wrote on Guyatt's retirement from the Royal College of Art in 1981, ". . . all his life Dick Guyatt has readily accepted and punctiliously dealt with teaching, designing, consulting, illustrating, lecturing, administrating; bringing to each problem, however small, that same quality of the true professional, the ruthless determination to achieve by rational methods aims that have been conceived in passion."

Gerald Beckwith, writing in The Independent after Guyatt's death, said "He was one of our last remaining examples of a genuine Edwardian gentleman, to whom the qualities of duty, fidelity, truthfulness and manners were paramount. To the end he practised all these with a lightness and impeccability of style entirely his own."

Book

* "Two Lectures." Royal College of Art: ISBN 0902490257

References

* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2007/oct/27/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries Guardian Obituary] 27 October 2007.
* [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/professor-richard-guyatt-398213.html Independent Obituary] 29 October 2007
* [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3000733.ece Times Obituary] 4 December 2007


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