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Item Description

Title: Overcast, Cambridge Beach

Size: 12" x 24", Unframed

Medium: Oil on Canvas

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Chris Pullman Bio: "After receiving my BA in History from Princeton University in 1963, I enrolled in a three-year graduate program in Graphic Design at Yale. I earned my MFA in 1966 and the same year began teaching in the graduate and undergraduate programs at Yale, an affiliation I still maintain regularly as Senior Critic, teaching the fundamentals of time-based media.

From 1966 until 1973 I operated a freelance design practice in New Haven, and from 1969 to 1973 ran the graphic design studio in the office of George Nelson in New York. During this time I also helped devise the curriculum and served on the original graphic design faculty at SUNY Purchase.

From 1973 until 2008, I served as Vice President for design and branding at WGBH, public broadcasting in Boston, which supplies about one third of the PBS prime time schedule. My staff and I were responsible for the visual personality of WGBH, as expressed through its on-air titles, credits and animation, promotional and sales support, classroom materials and interactive media. From 1982 to 1987 I had additional responsibility for the numerous trade books, publications and products the station produces in conjunction with its programming. Largely because of WGBH’s early recognition of the value of design to its business, the company was awarded the 1986 Design Leadership Award from the American Institute of Graphic Arts, recognizing the station's contribution to “the advancement of design by application of the highest standards, as a matter of policy, to all its visual communications.”

From 2002-2007 I had the opportunity to serve as the design client for WGBH’s new 340,000 sq ft studio and headquarters facility, working with the architect, Polshek Partnership (now Ennead), to define the building’s character and functionality, and to direct the architectural graphics, visitor experience features and audio-visual displays, including the large digital mural facing the Mass Pike.

During my time in Boston I served on the boards of the Design Management Institute and the Corporate Design Foundation, reflecting my interest in the relationship between design and business. In 1993 I was included in the first list of the I.D. Forty, the forty most influential designers, published by International Design Magazine. Then in 2002 I learned that I had received the AIGA Medal, the highest individual honor awarded to a designer by the American Institute of Graphic Arts, recognizing “individuals who have set standards of excellence over a lifetime of work or have made contributions to innovation within the practice of graphic design.”

Over the years I have lectured widely to schools and professional organizations and have published articles on design that have appeared in CA, Design Quarterly, Critique, Design Observer and various anthologies.

In October of 2008, I made the decision to leave WGBH to try out Life 2.0 where I continue to teach, lecture and write, and pursue my long private commitment to painting."