Michael Wolff
Creative Director
Michael Wolff and Company

Michael Wolff is a co-founder of one of the world’s most iconic design companies – Wolff Olins and is recognised today as a leader in thinking on brands.

He lectures in many countries including Brazil, India, Mexico, Norway, Singapore and the USA. He’s patron of the Inclusive Design Challenge with the Helen Hamlyn Centre at the RCA (Royal College of Art), a member of the government-sponsored Design and Technology Alliance against crime, former chairman of the Legible London initiative with Transport for London, a visiting professor at the University of the Arts in London and a senior fellow of the RCA. He’s recently been appointed as the UK Government’s Inclusive Design Champion. He is also a former president of both the D&AD (Design and Art Directors Association) and CSD (Chartered Society of Designers).

Wolff now runs Michael Wolff & Company in London. Their most recent clients include 3i, Mothercare and Ministry of Sound in the UK; Citibank and Citigroup in the US; and a new bank in Russia.

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