AVT Chair, Professor
Office: College Hall C200B
Phone: (703)993-4615
Email: hlinton@gmu.edu
Office Hours: By Appointment
Harold Linton, Professor, is Chairman of the Department of Art and Visual Technology. The Department of Art & Visual Technology at GMU is currently involved in the design and construction of a new 100,000 sq. ft. art facility that will serve 600 art students in undergraduate and graduate programs and open in early 2007. Previously, Harold served as Chairman of the Department of Art at Bradley University, 1998 – 2005 developing scholarships, art endowment, professional lecture and exhibition programs, internet technology initiatives, international study programs, and new undergraduate and graduate art and design studio concentrations. In 2001, he received highest endowed award for professional excellence at Bradley University, Caterpillar Professor of Art, and simultaneously for the Department of Art, the William Rainey Harper Award for Department Excellence. Most recently (2004), he was the recipient of a Fulbright-Hays Grant to study cultural life and contemporary social issues in South Africa and he has recently authored an exhibition with catalog in 2005 entitled, “The Children of South Africa”, a fundraising and awareness program that is presently traveling throughout the United States.
Having also been associated with the College of Architecture and Design at Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, Michigan, 1974 - 1998, he served as Assistant Dean of the College of Architecture from 1991 - 1998 and as Chairperson of the Department of Art and Design. He is the founder of the first Bachelor of Fine Arts degree program in Architectural Illustration in North America at Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, Michigan, where he has served as a member of the advisory council. He is the co-founder and Professor of the first Master of Arts degree program in Color and Design in Europe at the University of Art and Design - UIAH, Helsinki, Finland where he served as a member of the program advisory council.
Linton is the author of fourteen books on architecture, design, drawing, and color. Several of his published works have become adopted texts at universities and programs in higher education throughout the country and in Europe. His most recent book, Portfolio Design Third Edition, first published in 1996 by W.W. Norton and Company, New York, was released in September 2000 in its second edition, and again in January 2004 in it’s third edition. The current edition gives special focus to digital directions in portfolio design while advancing the understanding of layout design strategies and execution of portfolio design for architecture and allied disciplines.
His work in color research for architecture and industrial design is also well-recognized. Color Forecasting: A Survey of International Color Marketing and Color Consulting: A Survey of International Color Design are standard reference books in their fields. Color in Architecture: Design Methods for Buildings, Interiors, and Urban Spaces was published in June 1999 by McGraw-Hill Professional Books, New York. This project delves into planning color for architecture with a special emphasis and analysis on methods of application and the architectural design process. Linton’s work on color is the subject of articles and interviews recently in the New York Times, Metropolis Magazine, Departures Magazine, and others. His research on color in architecture is the subject of visiting lecture invitations including recent guest lectures for the International Association de la Couleur (AIC), Seoul, Korea, and a lecture for the design students at the Ewha Color Research Institute, Ewha University, Seoul, Korea. Among his newest publishing projects, Marketing for Architects and Designers, was published by W.W.Norton in spring 2005, and focuses on visual communications design in print and electronic media, public relations, and marketing for architecture. He has recently authored a new book on architectural illustration and urban design with the well-known American architectural illustrator, Richard Rochon, entitled, Urban Reflections: Illustrated World Cities, published by Images Publishing, Ltd., of Melbourne, Australia, July 2004.
Harold Linton has served as visiting lecturer in design at over 100 schools of art and architecture. These include the Harvard Graduate School of Design; Cambridge, Massachusetts; The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.; Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois; the University of Michigan, School of Art and Architecture, Ann Arbor, Michigan; The University of Maryland, College of Architecture; Arizona State University, College of Environmental Design and Architecture, Tempe, Arizona; Howard University, School of Architecture, Washington, D.C.; The University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign; The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; North Dakota State University, College of Architecture, Fargo, North Dakota; Iowa State University, College of Design, Ames, Iowa; The Center for Creative Studies, Detroit Michigan; The Michigan Design Center, Troy, Michigan; The University of Art and Design - Helsinki, Finland; College of Architecture, Technology University, Stockholm, Sweden; Winterthur Polytechnique University, Zurich, Switzerland; and a frequent speaker at cultural organizations, private corporations, and professional societies throughout the United States.
Recently, Linton is serving on the architectural search committee for the new Lakeview Regional Museum of Art and Science, Peoria, Illinois. He is also involved in the planning team for the new Art & Visual Technology Building on the campus of George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia. Linton has served on the design team with HarleyEllis Design for the new visual arts building for the Interlochen School of Music and Art, Interlochen, Michigan. He is the founder of his own color and design consulting group entitled, ColorDesign3d, which can be found on the web at www.colordesign3d.com. The company specializes in color solutions for architecture, interiors, industrial and product design. He also serves the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD) as a visiting evaluator of higher education programs in art and design throughout the United States.
His art work can be found in numerous public, private and museum collections. He is the recent recipient of the national competition first prize award and commission for a large relief construction work of art entitled “Fortunes of Nature” for the Richard M. DeVos Center and Graduate School of Business Administration, Grand Rapids, Michigan. He has completed ten public art commissions during the previous eight years. Linton received a Masters of Fine Arts degree in Painting - Yale University, with studies in Architecture and Planning with Howard Brown and in painting with Al Held and Lester Johnson at Yale; and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting - Syracuse University with studies in design with Lee Ducell, sculptural designer for Minoru Yamasaki.
