Robert Appleton is a graphic designer, artist, photographer and musician. Born in Scotland, he left an Art Director position at Saatchi & Saatchi in 1973 to study Fine Art at St Martins School of Art in London. A student of avant garde percussionist Tony Oxley he performed on the jazz and new music scenes, then spent 3 years as a photojournalist for BBC Television. Appleton Design was founded in Connecticut in 1983 and relocated to New York City in 1994. He has taught at Cooper Union and Parsons School of Design NY. CAFA and Glasgow School of Art in Beijing. He has been published by The American Institute of Graphic Arts, the Brno, Lahti and Warsaw Biennales, Communication Arts, Graphis, ID, Novum Gebrauchsgraphik, the New York Art Directors Club – and others. He is included in the collections of the Library of Congress, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Lahti and the Bibliotheque Nationale de France. In 2010 he moved to Canada and began creating visual music – merging his skills in image, text and sound into a single artform and language of multimedia communication called vorTEX. He designs, gives live performances, researches, writes and speaks about this internationally.