Richard Cress

HAS BEEN PROVIDING DESIGN SERVICES for cultural, educational, corporate, and non-profit clients for more than thirty years. His engaged approach is to provide strategic insight, deliberate processes, and design thinking in delivering results while maintaining efficient schedules and budgets. He provides creative direction in graphic and exhibit design, photography and other visual communications and has built, led and managed cross-disciplinary teams with expertise in marketing, content, exhibit design and fabrication, digital media, and web development.

 

He is Principal Creative Director of Alusiv, a design studio opened in 2001 focusing on branding, communication design and exhibition design. His professional work has included branding the Pennsylvania Convention Center, the five-star French restaurant Lacroix at The Rittenhouse, the Supplier Diversity Program at the University of Pennsylvania, the American Swedish Historical Museum (ASHM), and national non-profit Safe Routes Partnership. He has designed exhibits for the National Constitution Center, Penn Museum, Science History Institute, Design Philadelphia and ASHM.

 

In addition to his professional work, he has been an adjunct faculty member in the University of the Arts Museum Studies Department since 2003.

 

He is a summa cum laude graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University.