Pentagram has welcomed Hugh Miller as a accomplice at its London workplace. A graphic designer and artwork director, Hugh has constructed an exceptional popularity for bringing readability, rigour and magnificence to every part he touches. From shaping methods for blue-chip shoppers to creating identities for start-ups, museums, and galleries, his work seamlessly transitions between each cultural and industrial worlds.
Most just lately, he is been a part of the research-focused Human-Centred Design unit at Ford, working with a world group to discover the way forward for mobility. Earlier than that, he hung out within the model groups at Nokia and Microsoft, serving to to outline each firms’ identities. In 2012, he co-founded the London workplace of worldwide studio BOND, the place he led tasks that mixed sharp concepts with materials sensitivity and a robust sense of craft. Earlier in his profession at Spin, he contributed to main campaigns and identities for shoppers together with Whitechapel Gallery, Nike, MTV and Haunch of Venison.
His work has earned recognition from D&AD, the Sort Administrators Membership in New York, Design Week Awards, the Artwork Administrators Membership and the Clio Awards. He has been featured within the Artistic Evaluation Annual and the Design Museum’s Designs of the Yr exhibition. His file sleeve for SO: LO’s On the Finish of the World, Plant a Tree acquired the inaugural Freda Sack Award, the very best honour from the Worldwide Society of Typographic Designers (ISTD).
Typography sits on the coronary heart of every part he does. He sees kind as each an inspiration and a storytelling gadget, and his design archive displays a lifelong curiosity for the topic.
Alongside his studio work, he lectures at Kingston College of Artwork and the College of Greenwich, sits on the ISTD board, and has spoken at TypoCircle and Eye journal’s Sort Tuesday. He’s additionally a member of Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI). Earlier this yr, Artistic Increase named him certainly one of its 20 Most Inspiring Graphic Designers for 2025.
Paula Scher, Pentagram accomplice in New York, mentioned: “Hugh brings super experience that stretches from massive, superbly dealt with company tasks to cultural works of immense magnificence and wit.
“I had seen Hugh’s work lengthy earlier than I knew who he was. I discovered who he was a number of years in the past after I judged the London-based ISTD competitors, and Hugh was the primary prize winner. I had enthusiastically voted for him with none concept that some day this individual I had by no means met earlier than would change into my accomplice. That is accurately.”
Fellow accomplice Matt Willey added, “Hugh’s work all the time feels so easy to me; subtle and timeless, and clever and exquisite. He is only a fantastic designer and, way more importantly, a stunning human. I am actually excited that he is becoming a member of Pentagram; we’re extraordinarily fortunate to have him.”
Hugh joins at a big second for Pentagram London, because the workplace strikes into a brand new three-storey studio within the coronary heart of Islington.
“It is an thrilling time to be becoming a member of at this pivotal second,” Hugh mentioned. “The brand new studio brings a renewed power and alternatives to construct new connections. I am trying ahead to contributing to the tradition and persevering with my craft on a good greater platform.”
