Michael Artman - Landesberg Design

Michael’s strengths are brand identity design, editorial design and strategy, and illustration. Since joining the firm in 2014, he has produced award-winning work for clients including Kenyon College, Valparaiso University, University of Pittsburgh, Tulane University, Wheeling Symphony Orchestra, City Theatre, and more. His redesign of Phillips Academy’s Andover magazine was a finalist for the prestigious Robert Sibley Magazine of the Year Award. Prior to Landesberg, he co-founded Artman Purdy Studios to design, produce, and publish Rustbelt Almanac, an artful quarterly magazine celebrating small business owners, social activists, and community-driven initiatives in the Great Lakes Region.

Michael is also an adjunct design instructor, and past education director for AIGA Pittsburgh.

A favorite piece of design is . . .

Lance Wyman’s identity for the ’68 Olympic Games. There will never be another logo that incorporates the Olympic rings with such elegance, because it likely violates all the rules of brand standards. It absolutely shows that “breaking the rules” can have a huge payoff, if done with an expert’s touch. The extensions respect Mexico City’s heritage without appropriating the culture, and the system was one of the first to consider the “universal” language of iconography.

My hidden talent

I’m a former chess champion. Not quite a “grandmaster,” but good enough.