Ron Bradford graduated in Fine and Applied Arts at the University of Illinois and before forming his own design firm with Al Cout in 1963, he worked with design studios, advertising agencies, printing publication, art directing and free lancing.

Winner of hundreds of awards ranging from the New York Art Directors Club to the Society of Illustrators, he has taught design at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Ron has worked with educational-consumer oriented games, video computer game design and packaging and more.

Besides the design work, Ron has authored a short story published in a sci-fi anthology by Charles Beaumont. He's married to Julie and they have three sons: David and Darryl (lawyers for Jenner & Block, Chicago, Illinois) and Gregg (an ecology student at Santa Cruz, California).