Archie Boston (b. 1943–, Clewiston, Florida) is a graphic designer and educator. He trained as an artist in 1961 at the Chouinard Art Institute (later CalArts).  He worked at various design firms in the Los Angeles area in the late 1960s through the 1970s until establishing his own design firm “Archie Boston Graphic Design.” His design clients included Motorola, Pentel, Raytheon, and Yamaha. Boston was the first African American to be elected president of the Los Angeles Art Director’s Club, and the first Black recipient of the American Institute for Graphic Arts (AIGA) Fellows Award.  Boston also worked as a faculty member and departmental program chair at California State University at Long Beach for thirty-three years, where he helped to establish the Design Department and later the Visual Communication Design program. He honored the Los Angeles design community in a series of video interviews called 20 Outstanding Los Angeles Designers, which he created while on sabbatical in 1986. Boston was awarded the AIGA Medal for “Expanding Voice”.  This award is in recognition of  Boston's longstanding commitment to his students as an educator, mentor, and profound influence on the community of Los Angeles, as well as his bold, funny, polemical designs from a lifetime body of work.

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Boston, Archie, and Saul Bass. 2008. Saul Bass: Documentary. Los Angeles, CA: Archie Boston Graphic Design. Located at Harvard University Libraries.