Burton Kramer was born on 1932 and is a Canadian graphic designer and artist who lives and works in Toronto.
10 Facts About Burton Kramer
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Burton Kramer graduated with a BSc From The Institute of Design, Chicago in Visual Communication and an MFA in Graphic Design from Yale University.
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Burton Kramer moved to Toronto in late 1965 and his work was prominent at Expo 67, where he designed the map - directory system, among other contributions.
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Burton Kramer has pieces featured in the Smithsonian Institution and the Library of Congress.
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Burton Kramer has archives of his work in the collections of the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, and the Vignelli Center at Rochester Institute of Technology.
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Burton Kramer is well known for designing the distinctive 1974 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation logo, consisting of a stylized letter "C" radiating in all directions, representing broadcasting.
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Burton Kramer was a professor at the Ontario College of Art and Design for 21 years, lectured at universities in Mexico, Canada, the US and Switzerland.
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Burton Kramer is listed in Who's Who in American Art, Canadian Who's Who, Who's who in The World, and many others.
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Burton Kramer is currently active as an artist, showing his geometric abstractions at galleries in Canada and abroad.
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Burton Kramer was made a member of the Order of Ontario in 2002, the first graphic designer to be inducted into the order.