Christopher Lumgair studied visual communications at Corsham (Bath Academy of Art) in the late 60s. When still a student he worked at The Economist journal in St James, and after graduating, for Peter Dunbar Associates in Soho where he art-edited magazines for Purnells and designed covers for the New Statesman. He joined the much respected Wiggins Teape design team in his mid twenties heading the unit after its move from London. Fletcher Forbes Gill, Minale Tattersfield and Milton Glaser were early influences on his work.

Starting his own practice in his early thirties he quickly built a portfolio of blue chip and life-style companies. These included Berol, Filofax, General Electric, Chase Manhattan Bank, Courtaulds, Filofax, Zoffany, Deutsche Bank and The Photographers Gallery. His work featured at Aspen’s ‘Insight and Outlook: Views of British Design’ conference in Colorado in 1986 and in UK design annuals such as Graphics Britain. Many of his projects were to receive plaudits for the high quality of their design.

At the advent of digital publishing, Christopher became a consultant proselytiser for Apple and an expert in desktop publishing. This brought further clients including The Western Morning News, The Guardian Newspaper, South West Trains, the MOD and The British Shoe Corporation. He wrote the text for a number of Teach Yourself books for Hodder & Stoughton as an offshoot of this work.

Following a move into packaging design (concept development for publishers), Christopher produced a number of publications under the Flaneur Guide imprint. These included architectural pocket guides, which open up as broadsheets, and a book about the buildings of Dover.