Richard started his professional career as a designer at Town & Country magazine in New York City, where he worked with the esteemed editor Frank Zachary.

After assigning illustrations as an art director, he felt the desire to see what life was like as an illustrator himself. So upon moving to San Francisco in the early 90s, he set up shop doing illustration as well as design, eventually creating pieces for The New York Times, Newsweek, Foote Cone & Belding, Levi’s, The Washington Post, The LA Times, among others.

With an interest in animation, he learned software that allowed him to turn his illustrations into animation, adding a new dimensionality to his work.

While Richard painted sporadically throughout his life, he has taken to it with more focus in recent years, incorporating his design sense and skills culled from his years as an illustrator and designer.

SELECT CLIENTS
The Boston Globe, Conde Nast Traveler, The Grammy Awards, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Washington Post

RECOGNITION
The Art Directors Club of New York
DeYoung Museum Open Exhibition
Society of Publication Designers
Theater Bay Area Award (scenic design)

PRESS
Print Magazine
Graphic Wit (Stephen Heller, 1991)
Becoming a Digital Designer (Stephen Heller + David Womack, 2007)

email: r@richardturtletaub.com
415-596-3980