Born: 1944

Education: University of Arkansas

Currently resides: New York City

Selected honors: AIGA Board of Directors; Member, Alliance Graphique Internationale; Medal of the AIGA

Teaching: School of Visual Arts, New York

Woody Pirtle’s identities, posters, environmental graphics, and corporate communications deliver their messages with elegance and an inventiveness marked by the marriage of wit and economy. Mr. Pirtle began his design career in 1969 in Dallas. Ten years later, he moved to New York to become a partner at Pentagram. Over the years, he has created memorable designs for such clients as the Rockefeller Foundation, Rizzoli Publishing, mci, Fuji Television Network, and Simpson Paper. He has served as a consultant to a number of firms, among them ibm, Pantone, and Champion International.

Mr. Pirtle’s work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York; the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; the Neue Sammlung Museum, Munich; and the Zurich Poster Museum.