Objects + Methods: Claude Skelton Design
Graphic Design Visiting Lecturer Series Alumni Lecture: Claude Skelton, Elizabeth Sprouls, and Kevin Sprouls
November 10, 2008 at 4:30pm
Grace Street Theater
930 West Grace Street
Richmond, VA
Located in Baltimore, Maryland, Claude Skelton Design is a graphic design and branding firm with clients primarily in the fields of higher education and the arts. Specialties include comprehensive branding programs, graphic identities, magazine design, annual reports, and admissions recruitment and development programs. CSD clients range from large universities such as Tufts and George Washington Universities to small private colleges like St. John’s College and Le Moyne College. Our work in the arts includes a visual identity for the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore and magazine design for The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC.
President, creative director, and VCU graduate Claude Skelton has headed Claude Skelton Design for over two decades. Claude has received numerous awards for his work, including recognition by the New York Art Director’s Club, the Society of Publication Designers, Communication Arts, CASE, the Type Director’s Club, Print Magazine, and the Washington Art Directors Club.
Art directors and VCU graduates Elizabeth and Kevin Sprouls joined the company in 2007 after working in Boston for six years. In Boston, Elizabeth advanced to senior graphic designer at Christopher Chadbourne and Associates, managing and art directing the creation of nationally recognized museum exhibitions such as the National Museum of the Marine Corps. From there, she went to Harvard University as a senior graphic designer in Communications, Alumni Affairs and Development. Kevin was a designer at Main Street Design in Boston where he originated exhibition designs for the National Park System and natural history museums. He has also freelanced with many of the top design firms in the Boston area and worked as a designer at Barrett Communications.
