Jack Davis Lecture | Guido de Boer

The Lamar Dodd School of Art welcomes artist and designer Guido de Boer to deliver the 2025 Jack Davis Lecture “High on Type.”

The Jack Davis lecture is given annually by an outstanding professional illustrator in an effort to recognize Davis’ extraordinary contribution to the field of illustration. A renowned cartoonist and founder of MAD Magazine, Jack Davis was born in Atlanta in 1924. He has been beloved by the UGA community for decades for his quintessential illustrations of the Georgia Bulldogs and Bulldog fandom.

This event is part of the 2025 UGA Spotlight on the Arts Festival. Spotlight on the Arts is the University of Georgia’s annual celebration of the literary, visual and performing arts. Held each November, the monthlong festival highlights the arts and humanities on campus with dozens of events and exhibitions. Find more information about the festival here.

About Guido de Boer

As a visual artist Guido is creating work that one can read as well as texts that one can experience visually. His work is large, monumental, always handmade – freehand – with brush and ink. But that does not mean that his art is less graphic. His designs have a hypnotic – challenging the viewer – effect through their rhythmic brush strokes.

Shortly after graduating from Graphic Design at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht, Guido himself became a teacher at various art academies in the country. He is currently working as a teacher of “Letters” at the Royal Academy of Art The Hague. Over the years he has also taught in various places in countries such as China, Russia, Spain and Armenia.

‍“Productive limitations, stark refinement and a sense of purity feel like central building blocks when it comes to the magnetism of Guido de Boer’s work. He (…) now creates larger-than-life murals using only a brush and ink. Having exhibited in venues such as Kunstmuseum Den Haag, Wereldmuseum Rotterdam and – perhaps most ambitiously – at Kröller-Müller Museum, the Dutch graphic designer-meets-artist’s work brings letterforms into immersive, abstract, experiential worlds; questioning the boundaries between text, information and art.”

– Zoe Loring Murphy, writer for Art & Culture