Michael Vanderbyl

American graphic designer

Michael Vanderbyl
Born	(1947-02-09) February 9, 1947 (age 77) Oakland, California, US
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.

Biography

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]

In 1973, he established his own practice, Vanderbyl Design.^[8] He has designed products for, among others, McGuire Furniture,^[9] and HBF.^[10]

Vanderbyl was awarded the 2000 AIGA Medal by the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA).^[11] 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.^[12]

References

^ ^a ^b "2014 AIGA Medalist: Michael Cronan". American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA). Retrieved 2020-12-31.
^ ^a ^b Yew, Wei (1991). Pacific Rim Design: The Works of 15 Pacific Rim Graphic Designers. Quon Editions. p. 53. ISBN 978-0-9694432-4-7.
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^ Braun, Laura (January 30, 2017). "Contract: 2017 Legend: Michael Vanderbyl". California College of the Arts. Archived from the original on 8 September 2018. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
^ Camuffo, Giorgio (1987). Pacific Wave: California Graphic Design. April Greiman, Museo Fortuny. Magnus. ISBN 9788870570700.
^ Bierut, Michael (2019-03-12). Now You See It and Other Essays on Design. Chronicle Books. p. 184. ISBN 978-1-61689-676-8.
^ "Michael: They Have Come To Symbolize San Francisco Design". Newspapers.com. The San Francisco Examiner. 26 January 1986. pp. 23–27. Retrieved 2021-01-01.
^ "Crossing Over: Side Projects from Six Graphic Design Icons, by John Clifford". Core77. March 25, 2014. Retrieved 2020-12-31.
^ "McGuire Furniture". www.kohlerinteriors.com. Retrieved 2016-04-06.
^ "Michael Vanderbyl | Hickory Business Furniture". Archived from the original on 2007-04-27. Retrieved 2007-03-15.
^ "2000 AIGA Medalist: Michael Vanderbyl". AIGA. Retrieved 2016-04-06.
^ "Michael Vanderbyl: 2012 Hall of Fame Inductee". Interior Design. June 2014. Retrieved 2016-04-06.