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Katherine McCoy

Katherine McCoy (born Decatur, Illinois, 1945) is an American graphic designer and educator, best known for her work as the co-chair of the graduate Design program for Cranbrook Academy of Art.

See also

• List of AIGA medalists

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from http://www.eyemagazine.com/feature.php?id=47&fid=56 She studied industrial design at Michigan State University before joining Unimark International in 1967. She went on to work at Chrysler Corporation and Omnigraphics Inc. In 1971, McCoy became co-chair, with her husband Michael McCoy, of the design department at Cranbrook Academy of Art, which they continued to direct until 1995. By the 1980s, their sometimes controversial program had established itself as one of the most innovative in American design education, producing a stream of graduates who have gone on to make their own mark in the profession. Their company, McCoy & McCoy, has worked on two- and three-dimensional projects for Formica, Xerox, Unisys, MIT Press, Philips, Tobu Stores Tokyo and other clients. McCoy is a past president and fellow of the Industrial Designer's Society of America and an elected member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale. She served on the Design Arts Policy Panel of the National Endowment for the Arts and chaired the Design Arts Fellowships Grant Panel. In 1994. the McCoys were jointly awarded a Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design. 'Cranbrook Design: The New Discourse', an exhibition of work by McCoy, her students and graduates, travelled to New York and Tokyo in 1991. She has written widely about design and education, and her teaching methodology has featured in many international publications;

from http://www.kcai.edu/newsevents/news/detail/?id=30 Katherine McCoy and her husband, Michael, also a designer, previously held the Joyce C. Hall Distinguished Professors of Design position together in 1987. In October, the McCoys will be honored with the inaugural Design Mind Award, to be presented at the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York. The award recognizes "visionaries who have affected a paradigm shift in design thinking or practice through writing, research and scholarship."

For 23 years, Katherine and Michael McCoy co-chaired the graduate design program at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. Katherine McCoy also was a senior lecturer at Illinois Institute of Technology's Institute of Design in Chicago from 1995 to 2004 and served as a distinguished visiting professor at the Royal College of Art in London from 1993 to 1996.

Lorraine Wild's anecdotal history of the Cranbrook program at: http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/medalist-katherinemccoy

Cranbrook Selected Bibliography http://www.cranbrookart.edu/library/research/mccoy.htm

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