Nigel Holmes
Born in England in 1942, Nigel Holmes went to the Royal College of Art and worked as a freelance information graphics designer in London for 10 years before moving to the US in 1978 to work at Time Magazine, where he became Graphics Director. After 16 years at Time, he left to start his own information design business, Explanation Graphics. Clients have included Apple, Sony, American Express, Visa, GM, Nike, and such publications as National Geographic, The New York Times, Fortune, and The New Yorker. In 2009, the Society for News Design gave him its Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 2021 he was awarded the Ladislav Sutnar Award. He has written 14 books about graphics, including Crazy Competitions (2018), The Bigger Book of Everything (2020), Joyful Infographics (2023). Let’s Get Infografit (Sept 2025), Working on: Visual Language (2026 or 2027).
