John Brett Buchanan:
CLASS OF 1967
Dominguez High SchoolClass of 1967
Compton, CA
John Brett's Story
I am from Compton, California.
I'm a graduate of Manuel Dominguez Senior High School, class of 1967.
I attended the University of Southern California majoring in Printmaking/Photography and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1971.
I received a Master's degree in Graphic Design & Illustration from Kent State University in 1975, and was awarded a Graduate Teaching Assistantship.
I was a tenured Professor and was awarded Professor Emeritus status in The School of Visual Communication Design at Kent State University upon my early retirement in 2004. While at Kent I was the Creative Director of Glyphix, a student studio, oversaw the internship program and was a Co-director, Director, and Coordinator of the Blossom+Kent and KSUCDA summer graphic design workshop programs. We brought in national and internationally renowned professionals to teach 1-week workshops. I was a Co-Director of the Kent Summer in Switzerland, Summer in England and Summer in Italy programs spending many summers in Basel, Zürich, and Rapperswill, Switzerland, Cambridge University (King's College), and London, England, and in Florence, Italy.
I was a partner in Tarragon Graphics and had two businesses: John Brett Buchanan Graphic Design and Yellow Design, LLC.
In 2014, The KSU School of Visual Communication Design named a KSU Foundation Endowment fund in my honor. It is called the Walker+Buchanan Founder's Award & Scholarship endowment. The endowment awarded its first $1,000 scholarship at the annual KSU VCD Student Portfoli...Expand for more
o Exhibition on April 10, 2015. Since then, other $1,000 student scholarships have been awarded yearly along with three distinguished alumni career awards: Entry-level, Mid-level, and Lifetime Achievement awards.
I also formed the jCW+JBB Foundation which awarded scholarships to undergraduate and graduate students in visual communication design and to visual communication design faculty members through the University & College Designers Association (UCDA). My foundation also sponsored the keynote speaker for the annual UCDA Design Educator's Summit and awards scholarships to design educators to attend the summit. My partner and I established the j.Charles Walker & John Brett Buchanan Endowment for the Support of Visual Communication Design Professionals, Students and Organizations. It will be administered by a committee made up of the two of us, two distinguished KSU/VCD alumni, Cherie Banks Meyers and Paul Sahre, and our friend and executor of our estate, Larry Pearce. It will be invested and maintained by the Community Foundation of Western North Carolina.
In 2004, I was very happily retired to Key West, FL, and Asheville, NC. I had the ocean, the gulf and the mountains to play in. In June 2019, I sold my home in Key West and moved to Fletcher, NC, full-time. So, now I have a condo in downtown Asheville and a house on a small mountain in Fletcher which is about 15 miles southeast of Asheville.
While I loved and had the best teaching gig at Kent State University, I have loved my early retirement at 55.
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