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Michael Vanderbyl
Principal
Vanderbyl Design
Michael Vanderbyl is one of the world's foremost multi-disciplined designers. He has a life-long goal to merge traditionally segregated design forms like graphic design, product design and interior architecture. Along the way, he has gained international prominence in the design field as a practitioner, educator, critic and advocate. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Graphic Design from The California College of Arts and Crafts. Today he is Dean of the School of Design at his alma mater. Since being established in San Francisco in 1973, Vanderbyl Design has evolved into a multi-disciplined firm with expertise in graphics, packaging, signage, interiors, showrooms, furniture, textiles and fashion apparel. His work is in the permanent collections of the Cooper Hewitt Museum (Smithsonian Institution), the Library of Congress, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Museum Die Neue Sammlung in Munich. In 1994, Metropolitan Home magazine inducted Michael into their Design 100 Hall of Fame. TIME Magazine included his line of home textiles for Espirit in its "Best of '87" design issue. And he was the subject of an interview on the PBS series, "The Creative Mind." His client list includes American Institute of Architects, America One/American's Cup Challenge, Esprit, HBF, IBM, Keilhauer Industries, Polaroid, The Robert Talbott Company, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and The Walt Disney Company. In 2000 he was named an AIGA Medalist in recognition of his exceptional achievements, the highest honor in the graphic design field.
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