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...
Read full biographyBurton 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
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.
Burton Kramer Identities
(2011)
- Greg Durrell
Lulu
A half century of Kramer design
Logo Modernism
(2015)
- Jens Mueller,
- Julius Wiedemann
Taschen
Kramer logos featured in this major collection.
The Art of Clairtone
(2008)
- Nina Munk,
- Rachel Gottlieb
McClelland and Stewart
An in depth look at the development and design policy of a Canadian manufacturer of TV and stereo.
Contemporary Designers
(1997)
- Sara Pendergast
St. James Press
"The background, work and philosophies of important contemporary designers."
Posters by Members of the Alliance Graphique Internationale 1960-1985
(1986)
- Rudolph de Harak
Rizzoli International
A showing of the originality and variations in posters by AGI members.
Top Symbols and Trademarks of the World
(1973)
- Franco Maria Ricci,
- Corninna Ferrari
Deco Press, Italia
Introduction to the Canadian section. A five volume set of Trademarks and Symbols from 1945 - 1972, arranged by country of origin.
Exhibitions
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
- Undergraduate
1980 – 2001
- Professor of Design, Ontario College of Art & Design (Canada)
Professor of Corporate Design, Typography and Visual Design Basics
Agencies
Kramer Design Associates Ltd.
1967 – 2010
kramerdesign.com
Awards
2015
2012
2003
2002
1999
2003Painter