Charles Gibson, principal


Practice

Charles Gibson Design

multidisciplinary practice
in environmental graphic design, identity, print, and product design
1987-present

Design Director/Designer

Hopkins Center and Hood Museum of Art
Dartmouth College
1979-1987

Designer

Interiors/Graphics Department
of The Architects Collaborative, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
1976-1979


​Education

Courses in visual studies and liberal arts

Harvard Summer School
1976

MFA in graphic design

Yale University School of Art
1974-1976

Weiterbildungsklasse

Kunstgewerbeschule, Basel
(courses in object drawing, museum drawing, typography, and basic design)
February-May 1972

BFA in graphic design

Rhode Island School of Design
1968-1972;
European Honors Program
1971-1972


​Awards

First Honor Award with Saucier & Flynn, Ltd. Landscape Architects

in Layers of the Landscape Competition sponsored by Charleston (SC) Horticultural Society
2004

First Award in The Electric Vehicle and the American Community National Planning and Design Competition;
Special award for logo design

1993

The Art Museum Association of America Award of Excellence

for Dedication poster and Symposium poster
for Hood Museum of Art
1986

American Association of Museums Award of Distinction

for “Dogs” poster
Hood Museum of Art
1984

Wolf Trap Medal

for 10th Anniversary commemorative posters
1981

ACUCAA awards

for program, brochure, poster design for Hopkins Center
1981, 1982