Bob Moody
Bob Moody (born c. 1931 in Ashville) is an artist, retired graphic designer and interior designer, and former Mountain Brook City Council representative.
Moody, a descendent of the first settlers of the town of Moody in St Clair County, was born to two schoolteachers and raised in Boaz. He completed his bachelor's degree in interior design at Auburn University in 1953.
Moody began his career as a designer for Chance Vaught Aircraft and R. G. LeTourneau (now LeTourneau Technologies) in Dallas, Texas. Beginning in 1959 he took the job as a conceptual artist, producing illustrations and animations for NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville.
Moody moved to Birmingham in the 1970s to start the interior design department at Charles McCauley & Associates. He opened his own office, Moody & Associates in the Spanish Stores building in 1974, adding historic preservation to his expertise in interior and graphic design.
As an artist, Moody has worked in watercolor for more than 40 years. He has self-published two books of his paintings of churches, one featuring Alabama churches, and one of English churches.
Moody was elected to hold Place 1 in the Mountain Brook City Council in the 2000 Mountain Brook municipal election, and was re-elected in 2006. He chose not to run for a third term in 2010.
Notable design projects
- Fair Park East (proposed recreational park)
- Morris Avenue (signage and branding studies)
- L. R. Hall Auditorium renovations
- Clark Building renovations
- Munger Building renovations
- Spanish Stores renovations
Publications
- Moody, Bob (2001) Gifts of Grace: Alabama Churches in Watercolor. Birmingham: Moody & Associates ISBN 9780970315717
- Moody, Bob (2003) The Church Triumphant: English Churches in Watercolor. Birmingham: Moody & Associates ISBN 9780970315731
External links
- Bob Moody website