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Archie Boston is a nationally known art director, designer, writer, and educator. He was chair of the Visual Communication Design Program at California State University Long Beach. He has also operated his own design-consulting firm, Archie Boston Graphic Design for the past 31 years. He has served two terms as president of the Art Directors Club of Los Angeles, and is a frequent design judge.

Mr. Boston has been a consistent award winner in distinguished shows as: The New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles Art Directors Club shows, Communication Arts and Art Direction Magazine shows, Western Art Director's show, Print Magazine's Regional Design Annual, The Type Directors and the AIGA shows, The Los Angeles Belding Awards shows, Graphis Annual and Typomondus 20, International Exposition of the "Best Graphics of the 20th Century".

Considered one of the nations leading design instructors and a highly respected graphic designer, Boston was featured in Graphic Design: USA as one of 35 designs pioneers. In 2002, Boston published Fly in the Buttermilk: Memoirs of an African American in Advertising Design & Design Education, in which he describes his experiences as a minority in the creative community. Boston was named 2003-04 Outstanding Professor of the Year at California State University Long Beach where has taught for the last 30 years.

In 2007, Mr. Boston was the recipient of the Fellow Award from the Los Angeles Chapter of AIGA. The Fellow award recognizes individuals who have made a significant contribution to raise the standards of excellence in practice and conduct within their local or regional design community.

Mr. Boston also transferred to DVD, documentaries on 20 Outstanding Los Angeles Designers that he videotaped on a sabbatical leave project in 1986. These historical documentaries are featured in the shopping section of this web site.