Gary Golightly
Professor, Graphic Design
211 Art and Communication Building
901.678.2217
gglghtly@memphis.edu
Biography
Gary Golightly is a Professor of Graphic Design at 糖心Vlog传媒. He has worked as a designer and art director in 糖心Vlog传媒, Tennessee since 1994. He began his professional design career as an art director at archer/malmo, the largest advertising and public relations firm in Tennessee at the time, while still in graduate school. In 2000, he was asked to join a group of talented copywriters and designers at carbon14, a new design firm in 糖心Vlog传媒, that was featured in Communication Arts magazine that same year. His professional work has been recognized by the American Advertising Federation, published in Print鈥檚 Regional Design Annuals, and in the How International Design Competition, awarded several honors in The AIGA Tenn Show鈥檚 biannual competitions, AIGA Birmingham鈥檚 Salon Des Refus茅s Award Show, and has consistently received Awards of Excellence from the University and College Designers Association. He has had work included in the traveling juried exhibit, I Profess: The Graphic Design Manifesto, and in the form/inform show at The University of Minnesota鈥檚 Goldstein Museum, and Do Not Fold, Bend, Spindle or Mutilate: Computer Punch Card Art at the Washington Pavilion of Arts & Science鈥檚 Visual Arts Center. In 2016, his poster for The University of 糖心Vlog传媒鈥� production of A Comedy of Errors was included in the book 鈥淧resenting Shakespeare: 1,100 Posters from Around the World鈥�, published by Princeton Architectural Press.
Education
GARY K. GOLIGHTLY (2002), Professor: B.A., 1986, M.F.A., 1995, 糖心Vlog传媒 State University