With just on fifty years of experience in the design and advertising industry (interupted by a two year stint as a National Serviceman) as a creative director, art director, designer, illustrator and a letterer on a variety of well known brands in both packaging and corporate graphics, I am now specialising in Lettering, Logo and Typeface Design in its many forms.

     I would like to thank Bruce Bennetts, Doyald Young, Mortimer Leach, Tom Carnase, Herb Lubalin, Toni DiSpigna, Saul Bass, Maurice Schlesinger, Graham Wade, Eric Roberts, Phyllis Brown and Tommy Thompson for the knowledge and skills that they have imparted through their work, books, teachings and work associations that live with me always. Also, a special thanks to my first primary school teacher Miss Dennis at Clovelly Public School, Sydney, who taught and inspired me how to write through her wonderful blackboard examples that began a love of lettering, design and typography. How fantastic to come into the classroom and see the blackboard adorned with horizontal and sloped chalk lines with beautifully drawn Caps and lower case letters in the Roundhand English Copperplate style. A wonderful teacher! I might also mention I love drawing and was totally inspired by Australian illustrators, the late Keith Howland, Noel Stapleton, Patrick Russell, Wes Walters, the late Graham Wade, Harry Rogers and Maurice Schlesinger in the fields of fashion, general work and posters for Qantas Airways. The late Morris Toohey was a great and humourous influence.

     The following portfolio exhibits an extensive variety of work executed for Design and Advertising agencies both here across all cities in Australia, Auckland, Zurich, London, Hong Kong and New York.  Some ‘concept’ work can’t be shown here for confidentiality reasons. The ‘Pencils’ section demonstrates how typical work is created.... a very important part of my work.

    I have also been doing added corporate work such as ‘Wordmarks’ some of which are included in the ‘Logos & Corporate’ section. The ‘Fonts’ section shows typefaces custom designed for clients as well as new typefaces ‘Libran’, ‘Rumo Script’, ‘Waratah Gothic and Italic’, ‘Empire Display’ and ‘Shire Script’ under the name of Bean & Morris for purchase from www.myfonts.com These are part of a series of typefaces to be issued. They will have added weights and italics.

     ‘Get in touch’ includes contact details as well as ‘responses’ from my clients regarding work that I have done for them.

   ‘Other work’ contains an assortment of different items from design and artwork to some illustrative work and a sample of lettering from my archives rendered in brush and ink from around 1976. The influence of Lubalin & Carnase can be seen!

    I am very proud and aware of the Australian lettering artists and illustrators that have preceded me. Whilst we are a young country we have had many fine practioners in these disciplines. I only wish they had been recorded more widely for current and future generations. Luckily I have collected old Australian design annuals, books and magazines featuring their work.

Keith Morris. Proudly Australian.