Scott teaches graphic design, exhibition design, typography and graphic design history at the Rhode Island School of Design (since 1980) and teaches graphic design and design history at the Yale University School of Art (since 1984). He has designed exhibitions for the Boston Public Library, Museum of African American History, Mid-America Arts Alliance, Nebraska State Historical Society and the National Park Service. Kennedy School of Government, Abt Associates and Boston Musica Viva. Kennedy Presidential Library, Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, Boston Design Museum, Harvard University’s School of Public Health and John F. Other clients include Suffolk University, Emmanuel College, John F. He has designed books for many publishers including Little, Brown Houghton Mifﬂin Addison-Wesley Beacon Press Alfred A.

From 1971–1977, Scott was a draftsman/cartographer and Operations & Intelligence Sergeant in the United States Army Reserve. Before coming to WGBH, Scott worked for Schmidtke & Layer Architects in Elgin, Illinois was a principal of two architecture/graphic design ﬁrms in Lincoln, Nebraska – Art Coalition and Rainbow Studio and has maintained a freelance practice since 1968. He currently runs a design practice doing book and identity design, and is consulting Art Director of Davis Publications, an art education publisher in Worcester, Massachusetts. His major projects at WGBH include: Masterpiece Theatre, This Old House, Nova, Evening at Symphony, The Victory Garden, Evening at Pops, The Caption Center and WGBH Radio. Douglass Scott was, until January 2010, Creative Director at the WGBH Educational Foundation in Boston – a producer and broadcaster of public television and radio programs, where he had worked since 1974.

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