Inspiring Teachers Endowed Scholarship for Doyald Young and Ted Youngkin

The Inspiring Teachers Endowed Scholarship for Doyald Young and Ted Youngkin was established in 2015 to honor these two beloved and inspiring ArtCenter instructors by providing scholarships to students with financial need in Graphic Design, per Doyald Young, and to students in any undergraduate program at ArtCenter who embody Ted’s superb craftsmanship and commitment to excellence.

Ted Youngkin (BS 54 Product) by Heidi Youngkin
“My father, Ted Youngkin, was something of a legend to a generation of students at ArtCenter. For many of these young and aspiring designers, illustrators, and painters his class was their first experience at the college, and possibly the most terrifying. He demanded nothing less than their absolute best. He challenged them, taught them to think, and made them work harder than they had ever had before to achieve more than they ever thought they could. He was absolutely and ferociously dedicated to honing their skills and drawing out their talent. But as scary as “Mr. Youngkin” might have been, it’s pretty hard to argue with his results. The students who passed through his classroom are the absolute best at what they do. It was a great source of pride for him that his students are in charge of the design future of major car companies in nearly all industrial nations. And not just the automotive industry—he was fond of saying that most of the products we use in modern life have probably had his students working on them as part of a design team that made the product come to life. He loved that. My father was a talented artist and designer in his own right—his own contributions to the design world are significant. But it was always obvious that his greatest joy and gift was teaching and developing the talents of others. As hard as his students had to work for him, he worked just as hard for them. I’m enormously proud of him and his legacy.”

Doyald Young (BFA 55 Advertising)
For more than four decades, Doyald Young specialized in the design of logotypes, corporate alphabets and typefaces (such as the Young Gallant typeface pictured in the accompanying image in the upper left). His clients, primarily in business and entertainment, have included Henry Dreyfuss Associates, Mattel, Vidal Sassoon, Prudential Insurance, the Grammy Awards, the Liza Minnelli and Frank Sinatra TV specials and the Golden Globe Awards. Through his ties with International Design Associates of Japan, he also designed logotype programs for major Japanese hotels. Additionally, Young served as type consultant to corporations such as Xerox and Bechtel; designed fonts for Esselte Letraset, Agfa and Visual Graphics Corporation (VGC); and consulted with the Salk Institute on the development of a written American Sign Language alphabet for the National Institutes of Health. The author of “Logotypes and Letterforms” and “Fonts and Logos,” Young was an instructor at ArtCenter for nearly 30 years.