Michael Doret

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Michael Doret
Born19 July 1946
New York City, New York, United States
Education The Cooper Union
AwardsEight-time winner of the New York Art Directors Club Silver Award
Website http://blog.alphabetsoupblog.com/
http://michaeldoret.com/

Michael Nicholas Doret (born 19 July 1946) is a designer, lettering artist, and illustrator based in Los Angeles, California. He has created logos, album covers, magazine covers, and art for various brands in media, advertising, and sports, including Wreck-It Ralph , [1] the New York Knicks, MLB, TIME , [2] Playboy , Wired , [3] TV Guide , Kiss, Capitol Records, Columbia Records, Walt Disney Imagineering, and Universal Studios. [4] He also designed American Eagle postage [5] for the United States Postal Service.

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Biographical info

Doret grew up in Brooklyn, NY near Coney Island and is a graduate of the Cooper Union in New York City. He began his work by opening a small design studio in New York [6] and eventually moved to Los Angeles where he lives with his wife. Along with his design studio, Doret owns AlphabetSoup Type Founders [7] which distributes his original font designs through Font Bros., [8] Fontshop, [9] MyFonts [10] and Veer. [11]

Cultural significance

Five TIME covers by Michael Doret are included in the permanent collection at The National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC. [12] Michael designed the logos for The Graphic Artists Guild, [6] the New York Knicks, [5] and many other notable institutions. [13] He has worked extensively within the music industry, including creating two album covers for Kiss: Rock and Roll Over [14] and Sonic Boom . [5]

Awards

Doret is an eight-time winner of the New York Art Directors Club Silver Award. [15] His 3D Bedlam Ballroom CD package designed for Squirrel Nut Zippers was nominated for a Grammy award for "Best Recording Package" at the 44th Grammy Awards in 2002. [16] His font "Deliscript" was chosen by the Type Directors Club to receive the prestigious "Certificate of Excellence in Type Design" in the display fonts category for their TDC² 2010 Typeface Design Competition. [17] His serigraph for PowerStation was a Graphis Gold Award winner. [18]

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