Forest Young

Forest Young is a global design leader, educator and speaker. He is a Global Principal at Wolff Olins — which was recently named Fast Company’s Most Innovative Company for Design. Here, he leads initiatives for the world’s most influential companies and cultural institutions, based in New York City. Select clients include Apple and Modern Fertility. Prior to joining Wolff Olins, Forest was the Executive Creative Director at West, leading design across a portfolio of early stage companies — such as Impossible Foods, Spring and Sean Parker's Airtime.Forest is a Senior MFA Critic in graphic design at the Yale School of Art, where he is also a distinguished alumnus and recipient of the Mark Whistler Prize. He recently served on the National Board of Directors for the AIGA, and his work has been exhibited at MoMA, the Royal College of Art, the Yale University Art Gallery, and at international biennials. He has received the industry's highest design accolades including the Gold Design Lion at Cannes and the Art Directors Club Black Cube. His passion lies at the intersection of storytelling, universal design and futurism. He was invited by the California College of the Arts to envision and teach the inaugural MFA course in Future Design. Forest has delivered keynote lectures on behalf of the AIGA, 99U, SXSW, Adobe MAX, RISD, Ico-D, Typographics, SF Design Week and DesignThinkers. Forest holds a BS in Human Development from Cornell University.