"Planned Obsolescence" Installation

Brandon T. Truscott earned a Master of Fine Arts from San Francisco Art Institute with an emphasis in Design + Technology, a Master’s of Education with an emphasis in cross-cultural teaching from National University, and a BA in studio art with an emphasis in graphic design from Humboldt State University. As an in-house graphic designer in California he worked for an international wholesale company with large corporate accounts such as Nordstrom and Walmart and was employed by The Glenn Group advertising agency in Las Vegas, Nevada as an intern. Through these opportunities and the direction of his own design practice, Truscott Studios, he has executed a variety of projects in the areas of Brand Identity, Publication, Package and Web design. As an exhibiting artist in multiple mediums, he has shown sculptural installation at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Artists Gallery, paintings in The Luggage Store Gallery on Market Street in San Francisco, and won Best of Photography at the Morris Graves Museum of Art in Eureka, CA. His hand-made limited edition book of drawings won the Artist Book Contest at the Anne Bremer Memorial Library in San Francisco, CA. His art and design has been reviewed by critics in the Times-Standard, Art Business, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Times, featured more than 12 times on the AIGA Member Gallery and recently published by [BranD] Magazine, Hong Kong distributed by Sendpoints Publishing Co. Brandon is currently Chair of the Visual Arts Department at Brigham Young University – Hawaii, an Assistant Professor of Art and Design, and the President & Founder of Oibbio Books.