Focusing on the role of typography in recent identity, environmental, and editorial projects, Abbott’s presentation looks at how typography and lettering are used to create a sense of place, time, and mood.
Abbott Miller’s work as a designer encompasses identity, exhibitions, environmental graphics, publication design and digital media. He and his team have evolved a uniquely hybrid design practice that crosses from page to screen to interior environments and objects. He has also embraced the role of editor, writer, and curator in many of his exhibition and publication projects, fusing his interests in the history and theory of art, architecture, performance, fashion and design, along with his role as a designer.

Some of Abbott’s key projects include the exhibition and book “Design for a Living World,” a project about sustainable design for The Nature Conservancy, which was shown at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, the Field Museum in Chicago, and currently traveling to Phoenix. He has worked with a number of art museums, including identity and signage for the Art Institute of Chicago, and the signage for the recent Cooper Union building by Morphosis. He and his team also designed 40,000 sq ft of permanent exhibitions for the Harley-Davidson Museum in Milwaukee. Abbott and his team are currently working on identity, environmental graphics, website design, and interpretive messaging for the new Philadelphia site at the Barnes Foundation, identity and environmental graphics for a school in Japan.