Rigsby Hull

Profiles, Recognition, Events

Graphis: Protest Posters 2021
Graphis awards Rigsby Hull’s work for Black Lives Matter a silver medal in its prestigious international forum for design.

Enlivened
Hadia Mawlawi’s cultural blog Enlivened interviews Lana Rigsby about the art and science of book design.

Museu Picasso, Malaga, Spain
Rigsby Hull’s limited-edition monograph for Mercedes-Benz Stadium was awarded a gold medal by Indigo International and exhibited in the famed Museu Picasso in Malaga, Spain.

Global news coverage & I AM magazine
Rigsby Hull’s Church Fan Project and other work for Black Lives Matter became iconic in national and international newsmedia covering the funeral of George Floyd in Houston in the summer of 2020. I AM, an anti-racism magazine designed by DJ Stout and team at Pentagram, features the work as a cover story in its premier issue.

Graphis: Design 2020
Graphis awards Rigsby Hull’s work for Mercedes-Benz Stadium a gold medal in its prestigious international forum for design.

Sixty Years of Creative Excellence
Rigsby Hull’s program for The Earth Technology Corporation is featured as one of Communication Arts’ selection of the best American design of the past sixty years.

Design for Democracy, an AIGA initiative
For the 2020 election a group of 63 invited designers created posters supporting voter participation. Lana Rigsby’s collaboration with Michael Ray Charles powerfully highlights some issues at stake.

Design for Democracy, an AIGA / League of Women Voters partnership
Commemorating 100 years of women’s voting rights, Lana Rigsby’s submission to this invitational exhibition is a call to “Keep America Great by Keeping America a Democracy”.

Communication Arts: Design Annual 60
Our work for Mercedes-Benz Stadium is featured in Communication Arts’ 60th Design Competition & Annual, one of the most exclusive design competitions in the US.

HOW Design Conference, Chicago
Lana Rigsby talks about “Connecting the Dots: Art, Architecture, Books” at HOW.

Curbed Atlanta
Atlanta’s go-to magazine for architecture and real estate reviews Rigsby Hull’s monograph for Mercedes-Benz Stadium: ”Commissioned by Arthur Blank, striking new Mercedes-Benz Stadium book is a masterwork of design.”

ArtsATL Magazine
An interview with Lana Rigsby on “The Responsibility, Philosophy, and Future of Design”.

AIGA San Francisco
Lana Rigsby presents “Connecting the Dots: A Life in Design”.

Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA)
A Design Conversation with Lana Rigsby in collaboration with AIGA Atlanta.

Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD)
An invitation to “Explore Intelligent Design with Creative Director Lana Rigsby”.

Design Week Houston
Lana Rigsby and Dr David Eagleman deliver the keynote address at Houston’s premier design event.

Live event series
Lana Rigsby and Dr David Eagleman present “The Neuroscience of Touch” to design and science-focused audiences in a series of live events in nine cities across the United States.

American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) Design Archives
AIGA Design Archives is one of the richest online resources available to those who practice, study, and appreciate great design. It represents AIGA’s annual juried exhibitions, which define American design from 1924 to 2015. The collection is housed at the Denver Art Museum and in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Columbia University. 
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Graphis: Profile, Issue No. 313
Graphis, The International Journal of Art and Design profiles Lana Rigsby in an issue with artist Chuck Close, musician/artist David Byrne, and designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington DC, Maya Lin.
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A Century of Design Milestones
New York Times’ Steven Heller cites Rigsby’s influential work for The Earth Technology Corporation in Graphic Design Timeline: A Century of Design Milestones.
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Global News Coverage
A Rigsby Hull initiative goes viral, with coverage by ABC News, CBS News, NYTimes, Washington Post, Voice of America, Times of India, Texas Monthly, and many others.
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Keeping the Republic, Power & Citizenship in American Politics 
This law and social science textbook aims to “teach students to think critically about American politics, exploring who gets what, and how, and the twin themes of power and citizenship”, highlighting Rigsby Hull’s Guac the Vote project.
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Wall St. Journal
WSJ reports on LIVESTRONG Foundation’s rebranding in an article entitled, “LIVESTRONG Foundation Seeks Life After Lance”.
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AIGA: Justified
AIGA examines Rigsby Hull’s “game-changing” rebrand of LIVESTRONG Foundation, citing “clarity of concept, quality of execution, ability to engage and inspire” for work Wall Street Journal says has preserved LIVESTRONG’s viability in “life after Lance.” 
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The Weekend Heller
NYTimes’ Steven Heller again, with a post about Rigsby Hull’s “Taco Democracy” 
for PRINT Magazine.
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Meditations on Design
Lana Rigsby gets Zen in the thoughtful in 401 Design Meditations: Wisdom, Insights and Intriguing Thoughts from 244 Leading Designers, by Catherine Fishel.
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HOW Design Live
Elise Benun interviews Lana Rigsby and Thomas Hull for HOW on the evolution of design in business.
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Graphis: Design 5
Graphis interviews Lana Rigsby and photographer Terry Vine about their years of collaboration and Vine’s 50 Retratos monograph —a volume AIGA calls “a design fetish object”, “the most lust-inducing book design of this year”, and one of the year’s fifty best-designed books.
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Reflections on Life
In How to Grow as a Designer, author Catherine Fishel asks Lana Rigsby to ponder the priorities that drive her life and work.
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Design Observer
On Mother’s Day, the editors at Design Observer share the love with a collection of images of designing women with their children.

Under Consideration 
Design critics and powerbloggers Armin Vit and Bryony Gomez-Palacio regularly review and analyze new-and-newsworthy projects in American design.
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The Texas Show—A Design Retrospective
With work representing fully ten percent of this statewide retrospective (and top honors in four of six categories), Rigsby Hull dominated this 2010 historical review of Texas design.

AIGA Design Business & Ethics
AIGA's Design Business & Ethics Series outlines critical issues encountered by designers and their clients, with the objective of defining industry standards. Lana Rigsby, along with Joanne Stone, authored the series’ foundational book: A Client’s Guide to Design.
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Design Observer
Lana Rigsby writes for Design Observer on taco trucks and sleeping giants.
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Visual Communications—A Genealogy
CA traces the ancestral roots of prominent US designers from forebears to progeny “to provide an understanding of the impact of mentorship on design and advertising.”

True Stories from Top Creatives
In his book Graphic Content: True Stories from Top Creatives, author/Facebook designer/Pinterest brand manager/1000 Journals Project creator Brian Singer gets designers to tell campfire stories.
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Step Magazine: Profile
In a lucid compare-and-contrast, Step Magazine’s Nancy Bernard juxtaposes
Rigsby Hull’s work for two clients in unrelated industries.
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Fifty Years of Creative Excellence
Communication Arts’ landmark 50th Anniversary issue features a timeline of design as it relates to politics, culture and technology—citing Rigsby Hull’s work for American Oncology Resources and Earth Tech as among the most influential corporate communications design of the past half century.
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Grown in California—A Retrospective
In 2004, AIGA presented a landmark retrospective of California design curated by Charles Anderson, Michael Donovan, Jeffry Keaton, Lana Rigsby, Paula Scher, Jacob Trollback, and showcased in gala openings in San Francisco’s Presidio and AIGA’s National Design Gallery.

The Business of Design
In Inside the Business of Graphic Design 60 leaders share secrets of success to anyone contemplating... well, the business of graphic design.
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Step Magazine 100—The State of Design
Rigsby Hull’s work for Diamond Offshore and Carol Piper Rugs is featured in Step Magazine’s Top One Hundred.
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Critique, The Magazine of Design Thinking
Critique, The Magazine of Design Thinking, asked Lana Rigsby to tell all in an article entitled My Best, My Worst.
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NEO, The Journal of Innovation & Rediscovery
Dana Arnett interviews Lana Rigsby in an article entitled All Hat and Cattle Too.
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Graphis: Annual Report 7
Graphis interviews investor relations maestro TR Reid about Dell Computer’s collaborations with Rigsby Hull during the halcyon 1990s.
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Stars & Stripes—A Celebration of the American Flag by 96 American Artists
Design legend and US flag aficionado Kit Hinrichs invited friends to interpret Old Glory in a book celebrating our nation's flag. 

Communication Arts: Profile
The go-to magazine for designers profiles Rigsby Design in its early years.
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Lana Rigsby
Founding Partner & Creative Director

Rigsby Hull president and creative director Lana Rigsby has been honored internationally for intelligent design and restrained, elegant expression for more than thirty years. An outspoken thinker and practitioner in the field of communications, Lana has authored publications, chaired conferences, and lectured at universities and institutions throughout the US. She has served as a judge for international design competitions and exhibitions, is an AIGA Fellow and founding member of the AIGA’s Texas Chapter, and has served as National Director for the American Institute of Graphic Arts.

Thomas Hull
Partner & Design Director

A passion for clear communication and sophisticated typography are hallmarks of Thomas Hull's work. Thomas is active in the design community and teaches and lectures for organizations and universities around the country. He is currently a Professor of Graphic Design teaching graduate and undergraduate classes at Savannah College of Art and Design and is a former adjunct faculty for Brigham Young University—Idaho. He has served as a board member of AIGA, Houston and Executive Vice Chairman of The Printing Museum.