"Brazil" poster for Champion Paper imagination series

Program

BFA 55 Advertising

James Miho began his illustrious design career with N.W. Ayer & Son working on the “Great Ideas of Western Man” campaign, followed by serving as vice president/creative director at Needham, Harper & Steers. For Champion Paper, he created the legendary "Imagination" series which described the world through graphic design. From 1988 to 1996, Miho chaired the Graphic Design Department at ArtCenter. In 1994, he became the education/design advisor to the Innovation Design lab of Samsung in Seoul (the Asian Design Program for ArtCenter until 1999). Miho’s industrial films for the Container Corporation of America, "The History of the Envelope" and "The History of Catalogues," both won Gold medals at Cannes. His work has been included in AIGA annuals and is part of the permanent collections in the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; the Japanese-American National Museum; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and the National Endowment of the Arts.