Primo Angeli
The illustrator of Funky Features Zodiac Astrology Poster - Taurus has always nurtured an artistic side, eventually making his talent his career. Angeli studied at Southern Illinois University where he earned a BA in Painting and Printmaking, as well as a Masters in Design Communications. After establishing his art firm in San Francisco in 1967, Angeli built an international reputation in the field of graphic communications in packaging, corporate identity, and environmental graphics. Despite his commercial skills, Angeli’s personal interests lie in painting and poster designing.
Primo Angeli, Inc. maintains a client list including international corporations such as DHL, Ben and Jerry’s, Coca-Cola, Guinness, Intel, Nestlé, Robert Mondavi Winery, Xerox, General Foods, Hyatt Hotels Corporation, Bank of America, AT&T, Banana Republic, Levi Strauss and baseball’s Oakland Athletics, Visa and the firm was selected from nearly 500 applicants to join the design team for the Atlanta Committee for the 1996 Olympic Games. In addition to the commercial success the firm has had, Angeli’s work can be found in permanent museum collections such as New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland, and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, among many others. Angeli traveled extensively, reaching people worldwide with his artistic genius.
One of his most high-profile assignments was the creation of environmental graphics and the official poster for the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games. His other Olympics work included design consultation with Olympic President Juan Antonio Samaranch, official poster designs for the Salt Lake Olympics, the US Olympic Team for Nagano, and the US Olympic Team for Sydney. In 1998 he was chosen to design the official posters for the World Cup in Paris for the two final contestants, Spain and France.
A partial list of Mr. Angeli’s designs are in permanent collections and exhibitions worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, Smithsonian Institution, Library of Congress, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw Poster Collection, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, and the Olympic Museum in Lausanne.
Selected honors: six CLIO Awards, Mobius Awards; American Graphic Design Awards; Gold and Silver Awards from the Art Directors Club of New York, the Western Art Directors Club, the Los Angeles Art Directors Club, and the San Francisco Society of Communicating Arts.