Porter Gillespie has been working as a designer, photographer and artist for over twenty five years. He was the designer of Jasper Johns Catalogue Raisonné of Drawing, published by The Menil Collection and prior to that, the Design Director of The Jasper Johns Catalogue Raisonné of Painting and Sculpture.

A graduate of Rhode Island School of Design, Porter has gone on to study editorial design, design history, theory and practice, and type design.