Craig Allen Graphic Design, LLC
Nashville, Tennessee

Award-winning visual communicator equally adept in digital and print.

click images below for work examples + featured work
Lee Ann Womack: Call Me Crazy. Design: Craig Allen
design for music >
[shown] Lee Ann Womack – Call Me Crazy [MCA Nashville]
HOT SPOT by Dr. Alex Jahangir
design for books >
[shown] HOT SPOT by Dr. Alex Jahangir [Vanderbilt University Press]
logo for Wilder
logo design >
[shown] Wilder, a contemporary design shop
box set design for The Complete Hank Williams
design for boxed sets >
[shown] The Complete Hank Williams [Mercury Nashville]

Awarded

Best Nineteenth-Century Book, Latin American Studies Association [Sex, Skulls, and Citizens: Gender and Racial Science in Argentina 1860-1910 by Ashley Elizabeth Kerr, Vanderbilt University Press, 2021]
▪ Record Sleeve of the Month, Creative Review magazine UK [Lambchop – Mr. Met CD/DVD/2xLP, City Slang, 2012]
▪ Best Boxed Recording Package, Grammy® Awards [The Complete Hank Williams 10xCD, Mercury Nashville, 1999]
▪ Best of Show, Nashville Advertising Federation [The Complete Hank Williams]
▪ Album Artwork of the Year, Nashville Music Awards [The Complete Hank Williams]
▪ Regional Design Award, Print magazine [Various Artists – From Where I Stand: The Black Experience in Country Music 3xCD, Warner Bros. Records, 1998]

Published

▪ Creative Review magazine [UK, 2012 and 1994]
▪ 1000 Supreme CD Designs [Mao Mao Publications, Barcelona, 2008]
▪ The Greatest Album Covers of All Time [Collins & Brown 2005]
▪ Hatch Show Print: The History of a Great American Poster Shop [Chronicle Books, 2001]
▪ Lürzer’s Special Archive: Design for Music 1 [Lürzer GmbH, Vienna, 1999]
▪ The End of Print: The Graphic Design of David Carson [Chronicle Books, 1995]
▪ TimeOut magazine [UK 1994]

Exhibited

▪ Alumni Invitational: Celebrating 140 Years of Printing [Hatch Show Print's Haley Gallery, Nashville 2019]
▪ Creative Futures [Bolivar Hall, London 1994] nominated by David Carson for Typography