Mies Hora:
CLASS OF 1973
Clarkstown North High SchoolClass of 1973
New city, NY
Clarkstown High SchoolClass of 1973
New city, NY
Mies's Story
Mies Hora has had a long, multi-disciplinary career in the communications / design / marketing field, where his more than four decades as an entrepreneur and award-winning creative director includes extensive experience in corporate identity, branding, positioning, advertising, web site design, publications and print media, mobile device applications, product and interface design, environmental graphics, wayfinding, and videography / photography for a wide variety of clients, non-profits, governmental, and educational institutions.
He is the author and publisher of widely used industry standard design references Nature Icons, Official Signs & Icons, and Design Elements. These titles were published by UltimateSymbol.com, the content creation firm that he founded in 1992, to meet the exacting requirements of design professionals. He is responsible for directing the design, development, and marketing of the print and electronic versions of this library of titles and downloadable images.
He has also originated select specialty market trade books, such as designing, editing and publishing a lauded biography of Ella Fitzgerald with an exclusive 2-CD set of her best recordings, released in 2018. In 2022, Mies authored, designed and published "VIEWPOINTS: 50 Years of the Jefferson Lecture in the...Expand for more
Humanities" for the NEH. In 2017, Mies created a fundraising book of animal paintings by noted actress and animal activist, Loretta Swit.
Mies is known internationally for his work in developing non-verbal communications systems in the form of symbol sets for the transportation, hospitality, safety and health care sectors. In that capacity he has been engaged to work on projects as diverse as the assessment, design, and imple- mentation of an extensive system of pictograms for the vast MTA transportation network in New York City; public transport safety and emergency symbols; international travel and hotel symbols; a new system of pictograms for Universal Symbols in Health Care; and recently developed an international airport symbol sign for ride app service providers Uber and Lyft.
Mies has served as a university Adjunct Professor of Design & Typography at SUNY Purchase College of Art+Design, Rockland Community College, and The New School/ Parsons School of Design. He was invited to host a series of MFA student design workshops at Tsinghua University Academy of Arts & Design, Beijing, China, from 2013-16. During that period, he also developed an elaborate wayfinding system for the Central Business District (CBD) in Beijing.
Mies is an avid fingerstyle guitarist and songwriter/vocalist.
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