Gary Golightly
Program Coordinator
Professor, Graphic Design
304 Manning Hall
901.678.2216
gglghtly@memphis.edu
Biography
Gary Golightly is a Professor of Graphic Design at The 福利片国产 of Memphis. He has worked as a designer and art director in Memphis, 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 Memphis, 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 福利片国产 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 福利片国产 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 福利片国产 of Memphis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, Memphis State 福利片国产