IDSA
12 Dec, 2007
Katherine McCoy, FIDSA and Michael McCoy
As Directors of Design at Cranbrook Academy of Art for 24 years, Distinguished Visiting Professors at London's Royal College of Art, Senior Lecturers at IIT's Institute of Design in Chicago, Directors of Professional Programs at RMCAD in Denver and principals in High Ground Design Workshops the McCoys have had a significant influence on design theory and education in America.
They have received over 200 awards for their work in graphic, product, furniture, signage, exhibit and interior design including the IDEA Gold Award, I.D. magazine's Best of Category, Interior Design magazine's Best Office Design, The IBD Award and The European Ergo Design Award. Michael's work (with his partner Dale Fahnstrom) includes Knoll's best selling Bulldog Chair, Details Accessories for Steelcase and electronics for Philips and NEC. Katherine's graphic design work includes "Graphic Radicals" for Chronicle Books, "Cranbrook Design/The New Discourse" for Rizzoli and many posters and publications for Cranbrook Academy of Art. Their work and writings have been widely published and exhibited and they lecture on design theory at conferences around the world.
Their pioneering methods in design education have earned them the Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design (which is awarded to six American architects and designers every year), The Industrial Designers Society of America Education Award, The American Center for Design Education Award, The American Institute of Graphic Arts Gold Medal (for Katherine) and Honorary Doctorates from Kansas City Art Institute.
In 2005 they received the Smithsonian Institution’s first ever Design Minds National Design Award (http://www.cooperhewitt.org/NDA/2005/award.asp?catID=dm&nameID=COY) as, in the words of the museum, "visionaries who have affected a paradigm shift in design thinking or practice through writing, research and scholarship."
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