Chris Costello - US Mint Artistic Infusion Program Designer
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Chris Costello is an award winning graphic designer, coin designer, illustrator, and type designer based in Boston, Massachusetts.
He was introduced to creative arts by his father, a graphic designer, and began hand painting commercial signs when he was eleven years old. He studied design, calligraphy, and illustration in college and graduated from Northeastern University with a Bachelor of Science in Graphic Design and Visual Communication.
Early in his career, Chris worked in advertising agencies in Miami, FL and Boston, MA as an art director and technical illustrator. It was during this period that he developed an interest in typeface design. He created several original font families including Blackstone and Papyrus, which is included in the Monotype Font Library.
Chris transitioned to publishing in the mid 1990’s and created book covers and illustrations for Harper Collins, Candlewick Press, Scholastic, Random House, and Viking Press. By the early 2000’s, he was designing websites for filmmakers and writers including NY Times best-selling authors Matthew Pearl and Robert Kurson.
Since 2010, he has worked with the United States Mint as an Artistic Infusion Program artist and is credited with over 20 coin and medal designs. In 2019, he received a Coin of the Year Award for best gold coin and continues to contribute innovative designs for America’s coin and medal programs.
Today, Chris is a Senior Graphic Designer with The Trustees, the oldest land conservation and historic preservation organization in the world. He also serves as an advisory board member for Middlesex Community College and is a member of the Board of Trustees at The Cyrus Dallin Art Museum in Arlington, Massachusetts.
Coin Design Credits
2021 America the Beautiful Quarters® Program – Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site reverse
2020 Mayflower 400th Anniversary Gold Coin – obverse
2020 Mayflower 400th Anniversary Gold Coin – reverse
2019 American Legion Commemorative Coin Program – Gold obverse
2019 America the Beautiful Quarters® Program – San Antonio Missions National Historical Park reverse
2018 America the Beautiful Quarters® Program – Block Island National Wildlife Refuge reverse
2017 Boys Town Centennial Commemorative Coin Program – Clad obverse
2017 Boys Town Centennial Commemorative Coin Program – Clad reverse
2017 Native American $1 Coin Program – reverse
2016 National Park Service 100th Anniversary Commemorative Coin Program – Silver reverse
2016 Mark Twain Commemorative Coin Program – Silver obverse
2014 America the Beautiful Quarters® Program – Great Smoky Mountains National Park reverse
2014 Native American $1 Coin Program – reverse
2013 Girl Scouts of the USA Centennial Silver Dollar Coin – reverse
Medal Design Credits
2020 Mayflower 400th Anniversary Silver Medal – reverse
Doolittle Tokyo Raiders Congressional Gold Medal – obverse
Coin & Medal Design Credits
2016 First Spouse Gold Coin and Medal Program – Elizabeth Bloomer “Betty” Ford reverse
2015 First Spouse Gold Coin and Medal Program – Claudia Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson reverse
2014 First Spouse Gold Coin and Medal Program – Eleanor Roosevelt obverse
2014 First Spouse Gold Coin and Medal Program – Eleanor Roosevelt reverse
2013 First Spouse Gold Coin and Medal Program – Edith Roosevelt reverse
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