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    David Wilson

    School of Visual Communication Design
    Assistant Professor
    Campus:
    Kent
    Contact Information
    Email:
    djwilso3@kent.edu
    Phone:
    330-672-2113
    Personal Website: Work David Work

    Biography

    David Wilson is an illustrator, writer, designer and filmmaker with an M.F.A. from Kent State University in Visual Communication Design. David entered the freelance world over ten years ago, working on illustration, design and video projects for clients such as The Atlantic, The WWE, Boom! Comics, The Boston Globe, Harvard, Forbes and many more. He is the Creative Director at Belt Publishing where he was a recipient of AIGA’s “50 Books 50 Covers” award for his Belt Revivals book covers. He is the co-author/illustrator of Rust Belt Arcana, author of The Everyday and the writer/director of The Disposal of Dead Ned (Best Comedy Film at Poor Life Choices Film Fest). His latest work, Play Like A Girl, a Junior Library Guild Gold Selection and Rise Honoree, written by Misty Wilson, was a 2023 Children's Buckeye Book Award winner. Currently, he is working on three yet to be announced graphic novels with HarperCollins and MacMillan publishing, illustrating for The Boston Globe and Dartmouth University as well as continuing creative direction and design at Belt Publishing. 

    Education

    M.F.A. - Visual Communication Design (Kent State University)

    Documents

    PDF icon David Wilson CV (2023)_0.pdf
    School of Visual Communication Design
    College of Communication & Information

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