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Burton Kramer

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      Burton Kramer, Canada (1974)

      Burton Kramer, born 1932 in New York City. A Canadian and U.S. citizen, he is a graphic designer, consultant, educator, painter and former President /Creative Director of Kramer Design Associates...

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      Burton Kramer, born 1932 in New York City. A Canadian and U.S. citizen, he is a graphic designer, consultant, educator, painter and former President /Creative Director of Kramer Design Associates Ltd, an internationally recognized / awarded multidisciplinary design group which he founded in 1967. His identity projects include The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, CIBC, Teknion Furniture, Metro Toronto, National Resource Council, St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, Royal Ontario Museum, Copps Coliseum and Onex Packaging. Kramer was educated at Yale University, The Institute of Design, Chicago, The Royal College of Art, London and State University of New York. He was Professor of advanced corporate identity design at OCAD for 21 years, has lectured, published, taught, exhibited internationally, and traveled extensively in Europe, the Far and Middle East. He is recipient of The Order of Ontario, The Order of Canada, D.Des.(Hon), The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal, and member of AGI, RCA, RGD and FGDC.

      Publications

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      Essays on Design 1 / AGI's Designers of Influence / "The Hunger"

      (1997)

      • Burton Kramer

      Booth-Clibborn Editions

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      IDEA Magazine / Special Issue / Graphic Design in Canada

      (1975)

      • Burton Kramer

      Seibundo-Shinkosha

      An overview of Canadian Graphic Design

      IDEA Magazine #192

      (1985)

      • Burton Kramer

      Seibundo-Shinkosha

      Communication Design at OCAD University.

      Exhibitions

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      Kramer Graphic Design Archive

      Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York

      Graphic Design Archive, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON

      Archive of Kramer Design work.

      Education

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      • Undergraduate

      1980 – 2001

      • Professor of Design, Ontario College of Art & Design (Canada)

      Professor of Corporate Design, Typography and Visual Design Basics

      Agencies

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      • Clairtone Sound Corporation

        1966 – 1967

      • Paul Arthur Assoc. Ltd

        1965 – 1966

      • Halpern Advertising, Zurich

        1962 – 1965

      • Geigy Chemical Corporation

        1960 – 1962

      Awards

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      • 2015

      ADCC Lifetime Achievement Award
      • 2012

      Queen's Silver Jubilee Medal
      • 2003

      D.Des. (Hon.), OCAD University
      • 2002

      Order of Ontario
      • 1999

      Lifetime Achievement Award / Arts Toronto
      • 2003Painter

      Order of Canada