Burton Kramer, Canada

AGI member since 1974

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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.

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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

    Seeing.

    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