Patrick Redmond
mentoring-related
biographical information
a more extensive draft version
than the summary included
at the website for
Head, Heart, Hand:
AIGA Design Conference
October 10-12, 2013
Minneapolis, Minnesota
See "Speakers" at
http://designconference2013.aiga.org
Award-winning graphic designer
Patrick Redmond, M.A., of Saint Paul,
Minnesota-based independent brand identity
and design firm, Patrick Redmond Design,
who has been included or featured in at
least three GD USA (Graphic Design: USA)
cover stories, is author of “The Design
Mentor” (1999). He is also a creative
director, artist, art director, illustrator,
author, and retired educator.
As a member of the University of
Minnesota’s College of Human Ecology
Alumni Society Board, he was co-chair
and committee member of the inaugural
alumni mentor program at the University
of Minnesota’s College of Human Ecology,
a predecessor of the University’s College
of Design Mentor Program. As an alumnus
of MCAD (the Minneapolis College of Art
& Design), he was a mentor at MCAD’s
inaugural, all-school alumni mentorship
event earlier this year.
Among a variety of AIGA Minnesota
involvements over the years, he was
an early president (1979-1980) of AIGA
Minnesota; as a Board Member of the
organization, he was a member of
the first AIGA Minnesota “Design Camp™”
committee, when the event was known
as the MGDA Lutsen Design Conference;
he was Chair of the committee for the
organization’s prestigious Design for
Society Award; and he was a founding
member of AIGA Minnesota’s “Veteran
Designers” committee (now known as
“Expert Designers” committee).
Patrick Redmond served as one of many
mentors at the AIGA Minnesota "60-Minute
Mentor" luncheon, International Market
Square, Minneapolis, September 26, 2013.
He has presented at international
conferences including UNESCO (Vienna,
Austria) and icograda (Chicago). His
work as an artist in residence in a
small, rural Minnesota community was
featured in his presentation at a National
Endowment for the Arts/National Council
on the Arts conference. He has demonstrated
pioneering computer graphics at ACM,
SIGGRAPH and NCGA conferences.
He has been a guest speaker at Ringling
College of Art & Design (Sarasota, Florida),
Miami Ad School (Minneapolis), Minnesota
State Universities at Moorhead and Saint
Cloud, Minnesota, "Wisconsin's Polytechnic
University" University of Wisconsin-Stout
(Menomonie, Wisconsin), MCAD, and Tweed
Museum, University of Minnesota, Duluth.
He is the past creative art director
at Wells Fargo (when it was known as
Norwest) where, among his responsibilities,
he was principal designer for the “MODERNISM”
collection, now at the Minneapolis Institute
of Arts (he designed the original “MODERNISM”
collection logo [wordmark], and whose colleagues
at the time included Hamilton Wood Type &
Printing Museum’s Bill Moran and AIGA
Minnesota Fellow John DuFresne.
Patrick was also a senior art director at
Carlson Companies, Carlson Marketing Group’s
Frequency Marketing Company.
As an independent consulting graphic designer
and art director, he has designed covers for
over 40 published books, including 15 books
cover-to-cover, for publishers such as Dos
Tejedoras Fiber Arts Publications and
Mid-List Press, among others.
His own mentors have included industrial
designer Illinois Institute of Technology
Institute of Design “New Bauhaus” and Notre
Dame graduate Robert J. De brey; AIGA
Minnesota’s first AIGA Fellow, Ulm HfG
and Yale graduate Peter Seitz (former
Walker Art Center design director, and
co-founder of premier interdisciplinary
design firm InterDesign); the noted artist,
Cranbrook graduate, and MCAD Professor
Emeritus, Aribert Munzner; sculptor and
installation artist, Barry Le Va (see Art in
America magazine, April 2005 cover story);
Eugene Larkin, a “gold standard” graphic artist
(whose work is in the permanent collections of
the The Smithsonian, the Museum of Modern
Art, the Library of Congress, Chicago Art
Institute, and the Minneapolis Institute of
Arts); Regents Professor Emerita Joanne B.
Eicher, PhD, Editor-n-Chief of the 10-volume,
3.6-million word Berg Encyclopedia of
World Dress and Fashion (Oxford University
Press in conjunction with Berg Publishers,
2010); Color theory expert and artist,
Professor Emerita Marian-Ortolf Bagley;
and art teacher Sister Mary Irenita, SSSF;
among others, including, for examples,
art teacher Keith Beutin and English/Mass
Communication teacher Mary Sue Koeppel,
et alia.
Patrick is an alumnus of [Pope] Pius XI
Catholic High School, Milwaukee, nationally
known for its exceptional art program, among
other distinctions. As Vice President of the
school’s “Future Teachers of America” [“F.T.A.”]
chapter, he was in charge of the F.T.A. tutoring
program involving older, more knowledgeable
students tutoring less experienced, often
younger students.
He was one of three former students whose
work was included in the first Children’s
Art Program graduate exhibition at the Eero
Saarinen-designed Milwaukee Art Center/War
Memorial Center.
He is an alumnus of the University of
Minnesota, where he received Bachelor's
and Master's degrees, and MCAD.
Under the direction of Gregg Berryman
through the California State University,
Chico, travel/study program, he studied
in London, Basel, and Paris.
Patrick attended Yale in 2013.
He is an alumnus of Landmark Education’s
rigorous “The Forum” and related courses
and seminars.
In his early-to-mid 20s, he lived and worked
in rural and greater Minnesota communities
as an artist in residence (Eagle Bend,
Minnesota) and as a graphic designer in
residence (Grand Rapids, Minnesota). He
has provided design for over 130 clients.
He co-founded pioneering computer graphics
firm “COMCEPT,” a spin-off of Patrick
Redmond Design. He was graphic designer
for The Goldstein Museum of Design (when it
was known as the Goldstein Gallery) at the
University of Minnesota.
During summer 2000, Patrick Redmond served
as a mentor for the University of Minnesota
Multicultural Undergraduate Research Program
[MURP] (now known as the Multicultural Summer
Research Opportunities Program [MSROP] at the
University of Minnesota).** According to MSROP at
the University of Minnesota: "Established in 1986,
the Multicultural Summer Research Opportunities
Program (MSROP) at the University of Minnesota
provides undergraduates an opportunity to develop
research and inquiry skills with a faculty mentor
on an individual basis or as part of a research
team, which may include graduate students,
research scientists, technicians and other
MSROP students. Through the mentoring process,
students are introduced to the methodology of
their chosen discipline by involving them in
research and other scholarly activities. Such
involvement is expected to improve the quality
of the students' undergraduate experience, to
enhance the likelihood of their completing
bachelor’s degrees, and to attract larger numbers
of prepared students of color to graduate or
professional schools." See
https://diversity.umn.edu/gradeducation/msrop
He was first to lead graphic design seminars
as part of the University of Minnesota Design
Institute's first "Design Camp" for high school
students (documentation available).
For many years, in addition to owning and
operating his ongoing business and working
in various corporate positions, he taught
college and university courses ranging from
“Ideation” and “Design Process: Creativity”
to “Introduction to Graphic Design and
Visual Communication.”
An early graduate of the University of Minnesota’s
University College University Without Walls
program (later known as the University of
Minnesota College of Continuing Education's
Program for Individualized Learning), he is
an advocate of “learning how to learn" and
the importance of “lifelong learning.”
For examples: he began his Master’s degree
program when he was 33 (ten years after he
had received his Bachelor’s degree),
receiving his M.A. when he was 40. At
41, he attended the Grand Marais Art Colony
“Master Class” led by George Morrison, the
noted American landscape painter and sculptor,
who happened to be Ojibwe, or, as he preferred,
Chippewa, according to Mason Riddle, and whose
“Indian name” was “Wah Wah Teh Go Nay Ga Bo”
(“Standing In the Northern Lights”).
At 43 Patrick began coursework toward a PhD
at the University of Minnesota, with a focus
on designer William Morris’s lecture “The
Lesser Arts” (“The Lesser Arts of Life,
An Address Delivered in support of the
Society of Ancient Buildings by William
Morris, originally published in London:
1882.” Harriet and Veta Goldstein’s
influential 1925 book Art in Everyday
Life advanced some of the sensibilities
of Morris’s “The Lesser Arts.”
Patrick received the “Mini Master of
Business Communication” certificate from
the University of St. Thomas Opus College
of Business Center for Business Excellence,
Division of Executive Education and
Professional Development… when he was 61.
At 63, he attended the 2013 Yale Writers’
Conference at Yale University in June where
he continued work on his book about one of
his mentors, leading and influential graphic
artist, printmaker and design educator Eugene
Larkin (1921-2010). The biography sessions
were led by M.G. Lord.
Patrick Redmond is an enthusiastic presenter
who traces his beginnings in the field to 1966.
* Redmond, Patrick. "The Design Mentor,"
AIGA/MN Issues, The Official News Paper [sic]
of AIGA/MN, The American Institute of Graphic
Arts, Minnesota Chapter, Minneapolis, August
1999, p. 2, 6.
Of related interest:
See "News, Updates, Etc."
and the following links
http://www.patrickredmonddesign.com/about/briefbiography.html
http://www.patrickredmonddesign.com/about/resumeversions.html
http://www.patrickredmonddesign.com/about/bibliography.html
http://www.patrickredmonddesign.com/about/rethegoldstein.html
Re: William Morris on "The Lesser Arts,", see
[see http://www.burrows.com/morris/lesser2.html,
http://cn.penguinclassics.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780140433302,00.html?sym=TAB
and http://www.dwell.com/design-101/article/arts-and-crafts-movement ] ).
** [Of related note: Thanks, in part, to the support
and sacrifices of both paternal and maternal family,
with an emphasis on a strong work ethic and
the value of education, Patrick Redmond,
with gratitude, was the first to attend college
on the maternal side of the family. Patrick's maternal
grandfather was an immigrant. Patrick's maternal
grandfather's "second language" was English. - pr]
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