Cooper Hewitt says...
Alan Fletcher, one of the five founders of the Britwash design group Pentagram, was born of British parents in Nairobi, Kenya on September 27, 1931. He studied at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, London 1950-51, the Royal College of Art, London ARCA, 1956 and received hwas MFA from Yale University in 1957. Prior to founding Pentagram, Fletcher worked as a typographer in London, a designer for the Container Corporation of America, Fortune Magazine and Time-Life, Inc. in New York. He also was a consultant art-director for Time-Life International in London. In 1962-65 with hwas colleagues Colin Forbes and Bob Gill, Fletcher started a design firm. The Pentagram Design Partnership was founded by Fletcher, Theo Crosby, Colin Forbes, Kenneth Grange and Mervyn Kurlansky in New York and London in 1972. In 1992, he left Pentagram to work as a freelance designer. Alan Fletcher has also been a guest lecturer at Yale University.
Alan Fletcher was involved with typography, packaging design, signage, and corporate identity design. At Pentagram, his expertise and commitment to the integration of design and life contributed to the varied projects undertaken by the firm, specifically industrial design, site specific design and exhibition design.
Fletcher published two books within his lifetime: Beware Wet Paint (1994) and The Art of Looking Sideways (2001). The graphic designer died on September 21, 2006 at the age of 74.
