awards and honors
124 regional, national, and international design awards:
AIGA annuals, 4 certificates of excellence
AIGA Cause/Affect, honorable mention, series of 12 announcements, 2007
American Corporate Identity annuals, 19 awards of excellence
Communication Arts design competition, award of excellence, 1991
Global Corporate Identity annual, award of excellence, 2007
Graphis Logo Design 7, 2 Gold Awards, 2007
How International Design Competition, merit award, 2005
How promotion annual, merit award
idealist.org, international nonprofit design competition, honorable mention, 2004
International Design Conference at Aspen, merit award
Logo 2000, 6 Awards of Excellence
Logo 2004, 5 Awards of Excellence
Logo 2005, 17 Awards of Excellence
LogoLounge 3 Competition, 5 awards, 2006
LogoLounge 4 Competition, 4 awards, 2007
Murphy Awards, 3 bronze awards; gold award
National Association of College Broadcasters competition, best t-shirt design in the U.S.
Print regional design annual competitions, 16 awards of excellence
Print digital design annual competitions, 2 awards of excellence
Studio design annual (Canada), gold award
The Great Design Show, Design One Competition, award winner, 2005
Type Directors Club annual, 2 awards of excellence, 1991
U.S. Postal Service, World AIDS Day cachet design award
WADC bay area student portfolio competition, first place, 1983
WADC West Coast Shows, 25 awards of excellence
winner of Arts Council Silicon Valley’s Arts & Business Award for Individual Business Leadership in the Arts with
nominations by Works/San José, Commonwealth Club Silicon Valley, and Contemporary Asian Theater Scene, 2007
and other honors:
nominated for SFMOMA Experimental Design Award, 2000
nominated for Arts Council Silicon Valley’s Arts & Business Award for sustained support by Works/San José, 2002
judge, 2007 Dottie Awards, Central California web design competition
judge, idesigned it, student design awards and exhibition, Sacramento Fine Arts Center, 2007
reviewer, AIGA Portfolio Day, 1998, 2002, 2007, and 2008
guest lecturer, Michigan State University, Department of Art and Design, 2002
guest lecturer, University of California, Santa Cruz Extension, 1993 and 1994
Joe Miller is acknowledged as an influence on design in the books Looking Closer: Critical Writings on Graphic Design, and Graphic Design History, in the chapters titled "A Brave New World: Understanding Deconstruction." (chapter in Looking Closer) (chapter in Graphic Design History)
published work
included in 56 books and periodicals with other published works:
1000 Type Treatments, several announcements, logo, catalog design, 2005
1000 Icons, Symbols, and Pictograms, screen icon system for Hewlett-Packard, 2006
AIGA Graphic Design USA, 12, 14, 16, several announcements, poster, t-shirt design, 1992, 1994, 1996
American Corporate Identity 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 20, several examples of identity, packaging, and signage, 1994 to 2004
anotherposterforpeace.org, posters and cards, 2003
Best of Brochure Design 8, catalog design, 2005
The Big Book of Business Cards, numerous business card designs, 2005
The Big Book of Layouts, catalog, brochure, and cover designs, 2007
The Big Book of Letterheads, stationery set design, 2007
The Big Book of Logos, several examples of identity design, 1999
The Big Book of Logos 4, several examples of identity design, 2005
Blue is Hot Red is Cool, several examples of identity design, 2001
Branding, The Power of Market Identity, several examples of identity design, 1999
Bullet-Proof Logos, several examples of identity design, 2000
Communication Arts design annual, identity design, 1991
Design for Special Events, identity design, 2008
The Design of Dissent, poster published in a book of activist design, 2005
Fresh Ideas in Black, White and Gray, several examples of announcement designs, 1996
Fresh Ideas in Limited Budget Design, several examples of announcement designs, 1998
Global Corporate Identity 3, logotype design, 2007
Graphis Digital Fonts 1, typeface design, 1996
Graphis Logo Design 7, logotype designs, 2008
Graphis T-Shirt 1, several examples of clothing design, 1994
How magazine, announcement examples included in article on black and white design and printing, August 1998
How International Design Annual, catalog design, 2005
LogoLounge 3, five symbol and logotype designs, 2006
LogoLounge 4, four symbol and logotype designs, 2008
The New Logo from California, several examples of identity design, 1993
The Newest Logo from California, several examples of identity design, 1998
Photo/Design magazine, annual report design with article and interview, 1986
Print’s Best Typography 2, several examples of announcement design, 1995
Print Digital Art and Design Annual, announcement designs with accompanying interview, 1995, 1998
Print's Regional Design Annual, a wide range of projects in 15 issues from 1986 to 2008
Type Style Finder, announcement design, 2005
Typography 12, poster and announcement designs, 1991
and other published work:
Caked, an award-winning typeface design published by joe miller’s company, 1995
On This Day, an award-winning book of poems by Laura Callahan, published by joe miller’s company, 1995
exhibitions
included in 27 regional to national exhibitions:
Ag: works25, installation of 150 announcements in Works/San José’s 25th anniversary exhibition, 2002
AIGA Under 30, New York City and national traveling exhibition, 1992
AIGA Maximum Message/Minimum Means, New York City and national traveling exhibition, 1996
AIGA T-Shirts, New York City and national traveling exhibition, 1994
Big Ideas, Small Budgets, International Design Conference at Aspen, Colorado, 1990
Coming of Age, installation of 100 announcements in Works/San José’s 21st anniversary exhibition, 1998
Context, Monterey Peninsula College, one person exhibition, 1994
Feeel: An Exhibition of New Media, James Kaneko Gallery, American River College, Sacramento, California, 2008
Officeless, Works/San José, solo exhibition, 1988
SJSU design faculty exhibitions, 1991, 1996, 2005
Spoken With Eyes, Design Museum, University of California, Davis, 2006
Type Directors Club 37th Exhibition, New York, 1991
West Coast Show, included in eleven exhibitions since 1985
WORXX: twenty years of design by joe miller, Works/San José, solo exhibition, 2007
47 at 47: joe miller at 47 at space 47 at 1, Space 47, San José, California, solo exhibition of new typographic art, 2008
and curatorial work:
Spiele: Otl Aicher's Olympic Graphic Design, Thompson Gallery, SJSU, August to October, 2008
AIGA Journal of Graphic Design, “Logos here, get your logos!,” professional sports branding, May, 1995
LIMN, “Judge this book by its cover,” book review of Typology, Type Design from the Victorian Era to the Present, Steven Heller, Louise Fili, 1999
Studio (USA), “Art vs. design, categorical wordplay,” semantics between art and design, 1994
Studio (USA), “The Tao of typography,” review of a Wolfgang Weingart presentation, 1992
examples of work:
identity design
signage and environments
books and covers
works announcements