Designer and illustrator Burkey Belser has won hundreds of awards in every major field of graphic design: publication, illustration, trademark and collateral. Burkey served as one of nine judges for the 2009 Communication Arts Design Annual, the oldest and most prestigious design competition in America. An accomplished writer, Burkey has written for The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The American Lawyer, National Law Journal and many other industry magazines. In February 2008, Burkey was interviewed by Cole Silver of The Silver Group, Ltd. about the critical nexus between strategic communications planning and creative implementation (listen to the interview).
Burkey is routinely extremely highly rated as a speaker on topics from branding to information design before professional audiences, such as the Marketing Partner Forum and Law Leaders Forum as well as the American Bar Association, the Association of Legal Administrators, the Legal Marketing Association and the American Institute of Graphic Arts. He served for two years as the president of the Art Directors Club of Metropolitan Washington.
Burkey has been listed in Who’s Who since 1989 and has been included in 2000 Artists and Designers of the Twentieth Century. In 1997, Burkey was awarded a Presidential Design Award by President Bill Clinton for his design of Nutrition Facts, the nation’s food labeling system. He is featured in Who’s Really Who, a compendium that includes “1,000 succinct bios of the most interesting and creative individuals living in the U.S.”
As creative director, he oversees all of Greenfield/Belser’s marketing communications strategy and creative development. Formed to meet the marketing communication needs of law and professional services firms, Greenfield/Belser offers a full range of services from strategic communications planning to creative implementation. In 2005, Greenfield/Belser was awarded LMA’s first ever lifetime achievement award (the John R. Bates Award) for its work in legal marketing. In 2008, Burkey was inducted into both LMA's and the Art Directors Club of Metropolitan Washington's Hall of Fame.
I’ve been called some rotten things in my life but the worst was from my own bank, scanning my signature to come up with Ms. Blesey Busu. Now get this straight: It’s Burkey Belser. (Burkey is my mother’s maiden name. Giving children a string of last names is common in the South if you care a lot about your ancestry. I had nothing to do with any of it. But if you’ve got to have a funky name, either go into show business or marketing. Nuff said.)
From Bench Sitter to Sous Chef to Creative Director
I was born on a hot, sticky night in Columbia, South Carolina. My career has included such difficult challenges as baby, toddler, student, baseball bench-sitter, Eagle Scout, altar boy, construction layabout, bus boy, salad chef, sous chef, gadabout-the-world for a couple of years, boyfriend (not my best moments), husband (my best moments), father and, last but not least, president and creative director of Greenfield/Belser.
Burkey and Donna's house was highlighted in the 2007 Spring Home and Design Issue of The Washington Post Magazine.
Designer and illustrator Burkey Belser has won hundreds of awards in every major field of graphic design: publication, illustration, trademark and collateral. Burkey served as one of nine judges for the 2009 Communication Arts Design Annual, the oldest and most prestigious design competition in America. An accomplished writer, Burkey has written for The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The American Lawyer, National Law Journal and many other industry magazines. In February 2008, Burkey was interviewed by Cole Silver of The Silver Group, Ltd. about the critical nexus between strategic communications planning and creative implementation (listen to the interview).
Burkey is routinely extremely highly rated as a speaker on topics from branding to information design before professional audiences, such as the Marketing Partner Forum and Law Leaders Forum as well as the American Bar Association, the Association of Legal Administrators, the Legal Marketing Association and the American Institute of Graphic Arts. He served for two years as the president of the Art Directors Club of Metropolitan Washington.
Burkey has been listed in Who’s Who since 1989 and has been included in 2000 Artists and Designers of the Twentieth Century. In 1997, Burkey was awarded a Presidential Design Award by President Bill Clinton for his design of Nutrition Facts, the nation’s food labeling system. He is featured in Who’s Really Who, a compendium that includes “1,000 succinct bios of the most interesting and creative individuals living in the U.S.”
As creative director, he oversees all of Greenfield/Belser’s marketing communications strategy and creative development. Formed to meet the marketing communication needs of law and professional services firms, Greenfield/Belser offers a full range of services from strategic communications planning to creative implementation. In 2005, Greenfield/Belser was awarded LMA’s first ever lifetime achievement award (the John R. Bates Award) for its work in legal marketing. In 2008, Burkey was inducted into both LMA's and the Art Directors Club of Metropolitan Washington's Hall of Fame.
