Alan Fletcher Biography
Alan Fletcher (Nairobi, 27 September 1931 – London, 21 September 2006) was an English designer. Having returned to England he founded Fletcher/Forbes/Gill with Colin Forbes and Bob Gill in 1962. Among the best-known clients of those years were Pirelli, Cunard, Penguin Books and Olivetti. Bob Gill left the studio in 1965 and was replaced by Theo Crosby; the new social term became Crosby/Fletcher/Forbes. Two new partners then joined, and in 1972 the firm was renamed Pentagram, with Forbes, Crosby, Kenneth Grange and Mervyn Kurlansky; among the most important clients are Lloyd's of London and Daimler Benz. Among his best-known works are the logo for the Reuters news agency and that for the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Having left Pentagram in 1991, Flecher continued to design with a few collaborators, including his daughter Raffaella, in the studio on the ground floor of his London home, dedicating himself, he said, "... to graphics and drawing", after the many years spent dealing of budgets and business. In the last years of his career he designed a poster for the fiftieth anniversary of the Vespa Piaggio, designed the logo and collaborated in the creation of the coordinated image of the then nascent University of Alghero, where he was also a professor. He was president of AGI (Alliance Graphique Internationale) from 1982 to 1985. In 2006, a few months after his death, the major Alan Fletcher retrospective opened at the Design Museum in London. Fifty Years of Graphic Work (and Play), which Fletcher himself had edited and edited before the end.
