Brendán Murphy

Brendán is Lippincott’s Global Creative Director, based in the firm’s New York office. A Dublin native, he brings more than 25 years of experience at Lippincott, shaping brands across identity design, brand voice, campaign development, and customer experience innovation. He has led and designed programs for a wide range of clients, including Aer Lingus, Ameriprise, BD, CIBC, CityMD, DuPont, Hearst, Intuit, Liberty Mutual, Memorial Sloan Kettering, Samsung, The New Yorker, and more.

His work has been featured in Design Management Journal, Graphis, Metropolis, Novum, PRINT, and The Wall Street Journal; discussed on National Public Radio; and published in numerous books on corporate identity design. For the Society for Experiential Graphic Design (SEGD), he created a series of symbols for people with visual, hearing, and physical impairments, along with the concept for a universal access symbol now used by many leading cities and organizations, including The Museum of Modern Art. Brendán’s first book, Ready for School, Murphy?, was published by Disney Hyperion in 2015.

He has served as a senior lecturer in information design and corporate identity at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia. He holds an E.C. certificate in advertising from the College of Commerce, Dublin; a B.S. in Printing Technology from Pittsburg State University in Kansas; and an M.Des. in Design from the University of Cincinnati. He also studied painting at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin.