Ray Dugas

EDUCATION
Master of Fine Arts, Georgia State University
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Louisiana State University

Ray B. Dugas is Professor Emeritus of Graphic Design in the Auburn University School of Industrial and Graphic Design. Dugas has practiced graphic design, illustration and painting for many years. His illustration work has been published in several magazines such as Time, Cooking Light, New York, The Shareholder, Southern Markets and Media, Show South and Baptist Today. His painting work has been recognized by the Montgomery Art Guild with several first place prizes and from the Montgomery Museum of Art including the “Museum Director’s Award for Painting.” His graphic design work has been published extensively in the Print Regional Design Annual, The New American Logo Book, The Best of the Best Logos and Symbols in the History of Print Magazine reference book, The Graphis Poster Annual, American Corporate Identity 19 and Global Corporate Identity, and he has over 100 corporate logos published on LogoLounge.com. He has illustrated posters for the Atlanta Jazz Festival and the Decatur Arts Festival (both of Georgia), Graphics Group Inc. and six full color posters for the IBM corporation. He has executed numerous graphic design projects for clients such as: The Space Power Institute and NASA, Canadian Occidental Petroleum, Char-Broil, The Square D Corporation, Color Spot Nurseries, Hawkeye Industries, DecraStone Inc., Investor’s Financial Group, SportzBloc, Rock/Tenn Corp., K-Mart, John Harland Co., Ralston Purina, Neenah Paper Co., AIG Financial Services and The Atlanta Project for the Carter Center.

Dugas received the prestigious Tau Sigma Delta Silver Medal for Design for distinguished merit in the graphic arts. He also has received graphic design awards from the Birmingham Art Directors’ Club, the New Orleans Art Directors’ Club and the Oklahoma City Art Director’s Club. Dugas was awarded an Alumni Professorship from Auburn University for his professional research in painting, graphic design and illustration and also was selected for membership in the Academy of Teaching in the College of Liberal Arts.