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brief bio |
Episodic’s Steven McCarthy has an MFA in Design from Stanford University, a hybrid program between the Departments of Art and Mechanical Engineering, and a BFA in Sculpture and Drawing from Bradley University. He is a Professor of graphic design at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities campus. See his University homepage here. To email Steven at the University, click here. |
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Steven’s graphic design work has been published in Graphis Poster, the American Institute of Graphic Arts annual and in Provocative Graphics: The Power of the Unexpected in Graphic Design among others. His professional work has been in numerous juried and invitational exhibitions: from the Cincinnati Art Directors Club to the AIGA in Minnesota and New York. |
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| His artists’ books are in some prestigious collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the Victoria & Albert, the Banff Centre in Canada, the Sackner Archive of Visual and Concrete Poetry, libraries at Yale, Stanford and Harvard universities. His interactive works have been exhibited at VideoFormes, Clermont-Ferrand, France, at the Paris/Berlin International Meetings, at FILE – the International Festival of Electronic Language in Sao Paulo, and at Image Festival, Toronto. His digital creativity was lauded in How magazine, in an article titled Digital Expressions. | |
| He has had the good fortune to have been included in some curatorial projects that seek to expand the boundaries of the discipline: Soul Design, Adversary, I Profess, Products of our Time and Repurposes. | |
| Steven’s international scholarly presentations have included: Declarations, (Montréal, Canada), Mind the Map (Istanbul, Turkey), Hidden Typography (London, UK), Politics of Design (Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK), New Views I & II (London, UK), Wonderground (Lisbon, Portugal) and ConnectED (Sydney, Australia), and Responsibility in Graphic Design (Katowice, Poland). | |
| Steven’s list of ‘most proud of’ personal accomplishments include: witnessing the birth of his children Alice and John, drawing one self-portrait per week for all of 1984 and 1996 and again in 2007, earning a second degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do, consistently making delectable homemade pizzas (from scratch with exotic toppings), and his 5000+ slide library of places he’s been to, like San Francisco, Tokyo, Dublin, Québec, Fiji and Brussels (a greatly abbreviated list). |