Angus Hyland is a graphic designer, author and creative director. He has been named one of the UK’s top ten graphic designers by The Independent, and has received over a hundred creative awards, including five D&AD silver awards. He is currently Transform Awards Europe’s ‘Creative Director of the Year’.
Hyland has worked with some of the world’s best-known private and public sector brands. These include Eurosport, an international television sports network; Penguin Random House, the world’s largest publishing house; Mulberry, a British luxury brand; Asprey, the Royal jewellers; EAT, a chain of high street lunch spots; H&M, a multinational retail company; Maersk, the world’s latest shipping and logistics company; Rolls-Royce, the British multinational aerospace company; AkzoNobel, the multinational manufacturer, and Roche, a Swiss multinational healthcare company.
In addition, Hyland has created visual identities for several cultural institutions including National Museums Liverpool, Sage Gateshead, Crafts Council, Luminato Arts Festival, the William Morris Society, along with exhibition design for Tate Modern.
As a creative director Hyland has forged many longstanding relationships with publishing clients including Laurence King Publishing, Quarto, and the new Thames & Hudson imprint, Skittledog.
He has written 13 books on design and art. These include Symbol, a collection of 1,300 graphic symbols, C/ID: Visual Identity and Branding for the Arts, and—most recently—The Book of the Raven, a compendium of corvids in art and legend.
Hyland was elected a member of Alliance Graphique Internationale in 1999. In 2012, and was awarded a visiting fellowship at the University of Arts London. He is a former External Examiner for the MA in Graphic Design at the Royal College of Art.
He studied information design at the London College of Printing and graphic art and design at the Royal College of Art. After running his own successful studio in Soho for ten years, he became a partner in Pentagram's London offices in 1998.
