Chris Costello is a graphic designer, illustrator, typographer, and educator with proficiencies in traditional and digital media. He has won awards for advertising design excellence with works published in Graphic Design USA Magazine (GDUSA). His hand-lettering and logo designs appear in Leslie Cabarga’s hardcover, The Logo, Font & Lettering Bible from HOW Design Books and he has created several original typeface designs distributed by Monotype including the notorious font, Papyrus. Clients include IBM, MIT, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Penguin Random House, Scholastic Press, The Folio Society, Simon & Schuster, Harper Collins, Oxford University Press, HMH, and Candlewick Press.

He is a prolific coin and medal designer who has worked with The United States Mint since 2010 and is credited with 25+ designs that appear on American coins and medals. He received the prestigious Krause Publications Coin of the Year Award (COTY) for Best Gold Coin Design in 2019. Other numismatic clients include The Royal Mint, Osborne Mint, National Collectors Mint, JBCZ Group, LLC, and Gold Standard X. His designs appear on United Kingdom and British Commonwealth commemorative coins as well as several best-selling privately minted silver bullion products.

Chris studied graphic design and visual communication at Northeastern University in Boston where he received a Bachelor of Science degree. He currently works as Senior Graphic Designer for Massachusetts nonprofit, The Trustees, which is the oldest land conservation and cultural preservation organization in the world. He is also an Advisory Board Member at Middlesex Community College and an Adjunct Professor at Massachusetts College of Art and Design.