Builder of BP&O. Founder of LogoArchive. Developing software, inspiration and resources for designers.
Creating logos and brand identities for business.

Over a decade Richard built BP&O to a readership to over 100k monthly visitors (nearly 1m page views), positioning it alongside legacy press. In 2022, BP&O now has an editor, engineer, web designer and five writers, with a new monthly subscription model based around pioneering ‘Extended Insights’ model. Find out more here.
Beginning as an Instagram account into 2015 Richard grew the audience of logoArchive to 200k and developed it into an international research program with 60 researchers across 40 countries doing pioneering on-the-ground-research. LogoArchive now operates as a subscription research tool with hundreds of subscribers, a zine series that sold 10k copies and hosted an exhibition in central London. Discover more here.
Logo Histories is the first of its kind, delivering a weekly subscription newsletter to thousands of subscribers. This tells the fascinating stories behind modernist logos and is an important resource for designers looking to learn about design history. The newsletter has grown quickly in 2022 and now has added an additional writer.
LogoArchive School of Design is currently delivering a 16 week course for the Department of Visual Communication Design at Mariam Dawood School of Visual Arts & Design. It has a road map to develop further classes and become a platform of tools and resources for design students and studio. Find out more here.

Working closely with clients for over a decade and a half, Richard has developed a unique approach to logo design, blending usability and use-cases with creativity and craft. Clients have included the tech platform The Verge, legendary publisher Universal Music and iconic Turkish coffee brand Kurukahveci Mehmet Efendi. Richard has a special interest in architecture, developing logos and identities for architectural practices in the UAE, USA and Australia.
Richard works with business and brands to help them strategically position their products and services, and develop a visual expression of this new vision.
Richard has contributed extensively to design discourse, writing over 1700+ articles on design. He also has had commissioned pieces by Michelin starred restaurants, IDEA magazine and Gestalten.
As part of LogoArchive, Richard has designed, edited and published 19 booklets on design history, five of which included special collaborations and an award winning publication on Japanese modernist logos. He has also run BP&O for over a decade.
Richard offers a unique point of view on design, and able to offer studios an outside perspective of strategic design direction.
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Working collaboratively with designer Hugh Miller, Richard won a D&AD Pencil for ‘Akogare’, a special issue of LogoArchive. Other awards include The Drum, Creative Review Annual and the European Design Awards.
Richard spoke with Monocle’s Design on 24 and other high profile podcasts. He also contributed participated in the highly respect series ‘Ten Questions Series’ published by Nomad.
Working with Gestalten, Richard wrote the book Brand New Brand, with a forward with Astrid Stavro.
Richard was the principle judge of branding and print at LADC, leading and developing discourse amongst five other judges. He’s also collaborated with renowned designers Astrid Stavro, Hugh Miller, Blair Thomson and Jim Sutherland, as well as studios Pentagram, Collins and BankerWessel.