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Matthew Wolff (designer)

American graphic designer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionSep 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ110962877 ↗
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Matthew Wolff is an American graphic designer known for his work designing sports logos and jerseys, particularly for association football teams. He is also a co-founder of Vermont Green FC, a USL League Two soccer club in Burlington, Vermont.

Biography

Wolff was born in 1990 in New York City but raised in Minneapolis and London. He attended St. Paul Academy and Summit School in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He then matriculated to Skidmore College, where he played as a forward on the school's NCAA Division III soccer team.

Wolff received a Bachelor of Science in management and business from Skidmore College in 2012. He then studied at Parsons School of Design, receiving his Associate of Applied Science degree in Graphic Design in 2014.

After graduating from Parsons, he began work as a graphic designer for Upper 90 Soccer, a soccer equipment retailer in New York City. From January 2014 to September 2015, he worked at New York City FC as the in-house graphic designer.

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Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1990, 2012, 2014, 2015—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1990. For this dossier, Matthew, Wolff and designer is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Matthew Wolff (designer)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.