Harold Linton

Harold Linton is the director of the School of Art at George Mason University and former assistant dean of architecture at the College of Architecture and Design at Lawrence Technological University in Southfield, Michigan. As acting professor of design in 1997 at the University of Art and Design (UIAH) in Helsinki, Finland, he was cofounder of the first Masters of Arts program in color design in Europe, and he created new courses in portfolio design at UIAH and lectured at the School of...See more

Harold Linton is the director of the School of Art at George Mason University and former assistant dean of architecture at the College of Architecture and Design at Lawrence Technological University in Southfield, Michigan. As acting professor of design in 1997 at the University of Art and Design (UIAH) in Helsinki, Finland, he was cofounder of the first Masters of Arts program in color design in Europe, and he created new courses in portfolio design at UIAH and lectured at the School of Architecture, Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. A graduate of Syracuse and Yale University, Linton has written extensively on color, visual communications, architecture, and design. His own artwork is in the collection of numerous galleries and museums and in public and private collections throughout the United States and abroad. He has lectured at more than one hundred colleges, universities, and professional design organizations in the United States and abroad. See less