Artist Info
Philip Thompson
Philip John Thompson, artist and designer, born April 26 1928; died May 9 2007
Hastings School of Art
Central School (early 1950s)
1953 to 1957 WS Crawford advertising agency
1958-1959 freelance
1960 solo business, jobs included exhibition graphics, murals, catalogues and corporate identities
publications include:
Art Without Boundaries, co-written with Gerald Woods in 1972
The ABC of Graphic Clichés, co-written With Peter Davenport in 1976 (republished as The Dictionary of Visual Language in 1980)
elected to be a Royal Designer for Industry by the Royal Society of Arts in 2000
1971-80 visiting lecturer at Central School of Art and Design and Middlesex University 1980-85 visiting lecturer at Middlesex University
1987-95 tutor of graphic design at the Royal College of Art