Brendán Murphy

Brendán is the Global Creative Director at Lippincott. A native of Dublin, Ireland, he has over 30 years experience creating and implementing global corporate identity programs across the full range of media from print- and Web based applications to environmental graphics. Brendán has led identity programs for clients including Aer Lingus, BD, Comcast, DuPont, Intuit, Liberty Mutual, Memorial Sloan Kettering, Morgan Stanley, NYC Pride, Samsung, and Toys R Us.

Brendán has designed logos for companies across a wide spectrum of businesses including Ameriprise, DuPont, The Bank of New York Mellon, BD, Intuit, JohnsonDiversey, Princeton National Rowing Association, Scripps Health, SK, TimeWarner, Vale, WANA, Windstream and Xohm.

Brendan’s first illustrated children’s book, Ready for school, Murphy?, was published by Disney Hyperion.

His pro bono work includes Be The One, Cure Alzheimer’s Fund, Fundades, Hole in the Wall Camps and Lighthouse International. Brendán’s work has been featured in Design Management Journal, Fast Company, Graphis, It’s Nice That, Metropolis, Novum, PRINT and The Wall Street Journal, discussed on National Public Radio and published in numerous books on corporate identity design. His work for the Society of Environmental Graphic Design (SEGD), a series of symbols for the sight-, hearing- and physically-impaired and the concept of a universal access symbol, is now in use by many leading cities and organizations including The Museum of Modern Art.

Brendán has been a senior lecturer in information design and corporate identity at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and a speaker for the Columbus Society of Communicating Arts, and NYU. His work has received awards from the SEGD, the Type Directors Club of New York, The 100 Archive and has been exhibited at the Type Directors Club, and the Oireachtas in Dublin. Brendán holds an E.C. certificate in advertising from the College of Commerce, Dublin, a B.S. in printing from Pittsburgh State University, Kansas and a M.Des. in design from the University of Cincinnati. He has also studied painting at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin.