David Cundy

Profession and title: 
President of Design Trust
Interests: 

David’s interests range widely among the arts, including film (the “seventh art”), avant-garde literature and music.

Brief biography: 
David Cundy is a poet, poet, author, artist and designer, and the designer of the Yale Arms shield. His latest books are Inappropriate Anagrams (Hymnself Publishing, 2017) and More Inappropriate Anagrams (Hymnself, 2018), collections of anagrammatic poems and portraits introducing his invented poetic form, Shenanagrams. David’s premiere children’s book, Animals Spell Love (Godine, 2017), features typographic illustrations of animals spelling the word for “love” in sixteen languages. David is president of Design Trust, a corporate identity and communications consultancy, and was recently president of the Guilford Poets Guild and vice president of the Connecticut Poetry Society. A graduate of Yale’s MFA program in graphic design, David has taught and lectured at Yale, Fairfield, Parsons and Pratt.
Areas for involvement with Morse students: 
Career advising
Is there another way in which you might work with Morse students not listed above?: 
Mentoring in the graphic arts, poetry and literature.