Educated Central St Martins 1960. Director Knoll Int. Design Consultancy 1962. Co-founder Pentagram 1972. Mervyn Kurlansky Design 1993. Equally at home designing brand identity programmes, sign systems, annual reports, brochures, books, posters, packaging and more. Clients include multinational corporations, cultural and educational establishments worldwide. Winner of numerous design awards. Inducted into South African Hall of Fame 2006. Work in permanent collection of MOMA NY, Poster Museum Aarhus, Design Museum Copenhagen and featured in publications and exhibitions worldwide. He conceived and designed books, Watching My Name Go By, the first documentation of New York graffiti, and Masters of the 20th Century celebrating Ico-D London Seminars 1974-1999, co-author of four books on Pentagram. Active in design education, lectures extensively and serves on design juries internationally. President of Ico-D (2003-2005), Fellow of CSD, ISTD and RSA, and a member of AGI and Design Denmark, Honorary Doctorate, National Academy of Art, Sofia, Bulgaria.