My four decades of experience as a designer and educator in the ever-changing world of graphic design has primed me to become a top visual communications, branding and marketing specialist.

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A graduate of Rhode Island School of Design, I ran a NYC design firm for 35 years before moving to Palm Springs, California. I was also an Adjunct Professor in Pratt Institute's Graduate Communications Design department for two decades, where my typography-based classes were the core of the visual language curriculum.

 

Having worked with a broad range of corporate clients in New York, my company’s California focus steered into branding, events marketing, communications, and product design. I am currently the Creative Director for Palm Springs-based Destination PSP—a consumer products company with a presence in dozens of museum gift stores and multiple retail locations—while maintaining a roster of branding and communications clients across the country. I am an advocate for supporting local designers and community-focused design, and I contribute my visual skills and knowledge of design to numerous organizations and events, including the Palm Springs International Film Festival, DAP Health, Palm Springs Unified School District, Palm Springs Arts Commission, and Modernism Week. Palm Springs is world-renowned as a center of midcentury modern architecture, and my work helps promote neighborhoods and organizations that preserve, support and expand that legacy.

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Over the years Tom Dolle Design has received every major design award and I have been quoted on design issues in media outlets such as The New York Times, Crain’s New York Business, Communication Arts, Palm Springs Life and CBS News. I am also a critic, guest lecturer and spokesperson for design issues in national and international forums. My book Pulp for the Pandemic was published in 2021, and Glamour Road, with co-author Jeff Stork, was released to wide acclaim in 2022.

 

With a design studio in sunny Palm Springs, Tom Dolle Design is strategically positioned to handle a broad range of creative assignments.