Mike Dempsey is a British practising

graphic designer A graphic designer is a professional within the graphic design and graphic arts industry who assembles together images, typography, or motion graphics to create a piece of design. A graphic designer creates the graphics primarily for publishe ...

. He has been trained in calligraphy and

typography Typography is the art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable and appealing when displayed. The arrangement of type involves selecting typefaces, point sizes, line lengths, line-spacing ( leading), an ...

since 1964.

Career

From the late 1960s Dempsey worked as an art director for two leading British publishing houses,

William Heinemann William Henry Heinemann (18 May 1863 – 5 October 1920) was an English publisher of Jewish descent and the founder of the Heinemann publishing house in London. Early life On 18 May 1863, Heinemann was born in Surbiton, Surrey, England. Heine ...

and

William Collins & Sons William Collins, Sons (often referred to as Collins) was a Scottish printing and publishing company founded by a Presbyterian schoolmaster, William Collins, in Glasgow in 1819, in partnership with Charles Chalmers, the younger brother of Thomas ...

. In 1979 he founded the London-based design consultancy Carroll & Dempsey which later became CDT Design Limited. He created stamps for the

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, feature film title sequences for

Ridley Scott Sir Ridley Scott (born 30 November 1937) is a British film director and producer. Directing, among others, science fiction films, his work is known for its atmospheric and highly concentrated visual style. Scott has received many accolades th ...

Louis Malle Louis Marie Malle (; 30 October 1932 – 23 November 1995) was a French film director, screenwriter, and producer who worked in both French cinema and Hollywood. Described as "eclectic" and "a filmmaker difficult to pin down," Malle's filmog ...

Dennis Potter Dennis Christopher George Potter (17 May 1935 – 7 June 1994) was an English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist. He is best known for his BBC television serials '' Pennies from Heaven'' (1978), '' The Singing Detective'' (1 ...

, David Hare and

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, the brand identity for

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, and

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to the resigning of the

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and the

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. His personal work has earned him many awards including 10 silver and the coveted gold award from British Design & Art Direction (

D&AD Design and Art Direction (D&AD), formerly known as British Design and Art Direction, is a British educational organisation that was created in 1962 to promote excellence in design and advertising. Its main offices are in Spitalfields in London. I ...

). He has acted as Design Advisor to the

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, and he is a prolific stamp designer and was appointed consultant art director by

to create the two year Millennium stamp programme during 1999 to 2001 and was the Art Director of the '' Royal Society of Arts Journal'' from 1997 to 2002 and is a past President of Design & Art Direction (

). He is a regular feature writer for

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and has written for ''

Creative Review ''Creative Review'' is a bimonthly print magazine and website. The magazine focuses on commercial creativity, covering design, advertising, photography, branding, digital products, film, and gaming. The magazine is published bimonthly in print and ...

'',

Blueprint A blueprint is a reproduction of a technical drawing or engineering drawing using a contact print process on light-sensitive sheets. Introduced by Sir John Herschel in 1842, the process allowed rapid and accurate production of an unlimited numbe ...

, ''

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'', ''

Grafik Graphics () are visual images or designs on some surface, such as a wall, canvas, screen, paper, or stone, to inform, illustrate, or entertain. In contemporary usage, it includes a pictorial representation of data, as in design and manufactu ...

'', V&A magazine and many other publications on design and related issues
RDIinsights
is a monthly recorded series, devised and presented by Dempsey, featuring interviews with world class designers, across all disciplines. He was made a

Royal Designer for Industry Royal Designer for Industry is a distinction established by the British Royal Society of Arts (RSA) in 1936, to encourage a high standard of industrial design and enhance the status of designers. It is awarded to people who have achieved "sustained ...

(RDI) in 1994 and was elected a member of

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in 1998. He was Master of the Faculty of

Royal Designers for Industry Royal Designer for Industry is a distinction established by the British Royal Society of Arts (RSA) in 1936, to encourage a high standard of industrial design and enhance the status of designers. It is awarded to people who have achieved "sustained ...

from 2005 to 2007 and is currently the external design advisor to the

Design Council The Design Council, formerly the Council of Industrial Design, is a United Kingdom charity incorporated by Royal Charter. Its stated mission is "to champion great design that improves lives and makes things better". It was instrumental in the pro ...

. In 2007 he left CDT Design and founded Studio Dempsey.Studio Mike Dempsey
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References

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Dempsey's time as Art Director of Fontana Books in 1974-79. {{DEFAULTSORT:Dempsey, Mike British graphic designers Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Year of birth missing (living people)