13 Facts About Lance Wyman

Lance Wyman was born on 1937 and is an American graphic designer known for his work under Pedro Ramirez Vazquez, design concept and direction in developing applications of the logo for the 1968 Summer Olympics in Ramirez Vazquez's personal office in Mexico City.

The subject of graphic design was just being introduced in American universities at the time; when Lance Wyman met a student who studied logo design with Paul Rand at Yale, he wanted to design logos.

Lance Wyman began his career at General Motors in Detroit, Michigan, where he worked on a packaging system for Delco automotive parts that unified 1,200 different packages.

In 1963, Lance Wyman moved to New York, where he joined the George Nelson firm.

Lance Wyman designed the graphics for the Chrysler Pavilion at the New York World's Fair.

Lance Wyman later reported that devising a "pointing hand" themed logo and adapting it to the site directional signs convinced him that logos could play a more important role in an overall design program.

Lance Wyman stopped working for the organizing committee in October 1968, he then designed the graphics programs for the Mexico City Metro.

Lance Wyman has taught corporate and wayfinding design at Parsons School of Design since 1973.

Lance Wyman, who has been described as a "rock star" of graphic arts, made his reputation when he collaborated with Eduardo Terrazas, under the direction of architect Pedro Ramirez Vazquez, in the development of the entire design campaign for the Mexico 1968 Summer Olympic Games.

Lance Wyman has designed icons for museums and many other institutions, individualized signs for buildings at the National Zoo in Washington DC, and many other symbols.

In 2011, Lance Wyman was called on to design a new Metro map depicting new lines and route orientations, as well as some station names that had been expanded to the point of being cumbersome.

Lance Wyman suggested naming the then-under-construction Metro line the Cherry Blossom Line, but it became the Silver Line instead.

Lance Wyman's work was the subject of a retrospective exhibition called "Urban Icons" at El Museo Universitario Arte Contemporaneo in Mexico City.