Michael Johnson

Michael Johnson is a British designer and brand consultant. In 1992 he founded the design studio Johnson Banks in London, UK. Johnson received the Design and Art Direction (D&AD) black pencil award for his fruit and veg stamp designs and the organization's President's award in 2017. In addition, Johnson has published three books, and the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) has nineteen of his designs in its permanent collection. After graduating, Michael worked as a designer and consultant for Wolff Olins, Sedley Place, and Dentsu, Tokyo.

In 1992 he set up Johnson Banks and went on to advise and create brands for clients, including Virgin Atlantic, Science Museum (UK), Shelter (UK), The Guggenheim Foundation (New York, USA), Sendai Space Observatory (Japan), and Pew Center for Arts and Culture (Philadelphia, USA).[citation needed] Johnson designed posters and stamps such as The Beatles for Royal Mail in 2006.

In addition, Johnson writes for many design journals, judges design competitions, and lectures worldwide as far afield as Toronto, Tokyo, Berlin, and Goa on branding, identity issues, and design history. He has won some design industry awards. Specifically, eight D&AD' pencils,' and he presided over the organization in 2003. Johnson has nineteen designs in the V&A's permanent collection.

D&AD named him the seventh most awarded designer in its history in its fifty-year celebrations in 2012. The second edition of his first book, Problem Solved, was published in the autumn of 2012. Johnson designed 1993's Fruit and Vegetable stamps and The Beatles album cover stamps.