A native Philadelphian with thirty-four years of experience in the design profession, Gregory offers an array of expertise which includes strategic development, design and execution of visual communications encompassing brand identity and digital media. For the past twenty-nine years, he has cultivated the business interests of Paone Design Associates, Ltd., a multidisciplinary design consultancy founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Gregory has successfully engaged with hundreds of organizations from a diversity of industries: cultural, educational, financial, medical and technological.
Gregory’s commitment to excellence has been recognized by leading professional organizations and publications internationally, including Bolivia Poster Biennal BICeBé, GRAPHIS, AR100 Black Book, PRINT, Bienal Internacional del Cartel en México, GOOD 50X70, Graphic Design USA, Moscow Biennial of Graphic Design, Typographische Monatsblatter, The Art Directors Club and AIGA. His work and writings have been featured globally in numerous casebooks on graphic design and his posters have been admitted to the Basler Afrika Bibliographien permanent poster collection in Basel, Switzerland, exhibited in Milan, Italy, and acquired by private collection. He has held membership in the Type Directors Club of New York and American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), for which he has served on its mentorship, nominations and programming committees.
Gregory holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree, with concentration in Graphic Design from the University of the Arts (USA), from which he graduated with highest honors in 1990.
Select Publications + Exhibitions
• GRAPHIS Designers For Peace, 2023 Exhibition:
California, USA; Tijuana, Mexico; Seoul, South Korea
• Bienal del Cartel Bolivia BICeBé, 2021
• BICM16: Bienal Internacional del Cartel en México, 2020
• Golden Bee: Moscow International Biennial of Graphic Design 2020, 2010
• Design Elements: A Graphic Style Manual
• Letterforms: Typeface Design from Past to Future
• Design School: Layout
• Design Elements: A Graphic Style Manual
• Making and Breaking the Grid
• Design Elements: Imagery for Impact
• Drawing for Graphic Design
• GRAPHIS Poster Annual: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2015, 2013, 2012, 2010, 2008/09, 2006
Multiple Platinum, Gold, Silver, Honourable Mention + Merit Awards
• The Language of Graphic Design
• Design Elements: Color Fundamentals
• The Complete Typographer
• Basler Afrika Bibliographien, Permanent Poster Collection, Basel, Switzerland
• GOOD 50X70, Triennale di Milano, Italy, 2008
• Design Evolution: Theory into Practice
• UARTS GD 30: Making Marks, 1999 Exhibition, Philadelphia, USA
• Graphic Design America Two
• PRINT Casebooks
• AIGA: Mixed Messages, 1995 Exhibition, Philadelphia, USA
• AR 100: Black Book Awards
• Typografische Monatsblätter, Switzerland