Michael Vanderbyl | |
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| Born | February 9, 1947 |
| Occupation(s) | Designer, professor |
| Movement | Pacific Wave design movement |
| Website | http://www.vanderbyl.com/ |
Michael Vanderbyl (born February 9, 1947) is a multidisciplinary designer and design educator based in the San Francisco Bay Area, and the principal of Vanderbyl Design.
Michael Vanderbyl was born February 9, 1947, in Oakland, California. [1] [2] Vanderbyl received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Graphic Design in 1968 from California College of the Arts (CCA). [2]
He taught graphic design at CCA for more than 30 years, from 1973 to 2014, and served as the dean of design from 1986 to 2002. [3] [4]
Vanderbyl was one of the artists in the early 1980s that helped establish the San Francisco Bay Area as a center of the postmodern movement in graphic design. In the early 1980s a few San Francisco–based designers were nicknamed “The Michaels” because they all had the same name (Vanderbyl alongside, Cronan, Mabry, Manwaring, Schwab), and later they were known as the "[[Pacific Wave]]" according to historian Steven Heller [1] [5] [6] [7] and as described by author and curator Giorgio Camuffo in Pacific Wave: California Graphic Design [8] .
In 1973, he established his own practice, Vanderbyl Design. [9] He has designed products for, among others, McGuire Furniture, [10] and HBF. [11]
Vanderbyl was awarded the 2000 AIGA Medal by the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA). [12] He has been a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) since 1987. He was the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Interior Design Association (IIDA) in 2006. In 2012, he was inducted into the Interior Design Hall of Fame. [13]
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