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Michael Vanderbyl 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.
Michael Vanderbyl has gained international prominence in the design field as a practitioner, educator, critic and advocate. Interior and graphic design organizations in over a dozen cities have invited Michael to address their membership or evaluate their competitions. He has served as judge for the Chicago AIA competition for interior architecture and numerous premiere American graphic design competitions. In 1988, Michael was selected as part of an international panel to judge the National Design Competition of New Zealand and in 1992 was a guest lecturer at Australia's student conference. He also chaired the Presidential Jury for the 1992 National Endowment for the Arts Presidential Design Awards for the United States government. In 1994, Metropolitan Home magazine inducted Michael into their Design 100 Hall of Fame.
Michael has served on the National Board of Directors of the AIGA and is a founding member of the AIGA, San Francisco Chapter. He holds a position on the Design Advisory Board and the Accession Committee at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The United Sates Information Agency invited Michael to act as consultant on "Design USA: A Cultural Exchange Exhibition with the USSR". In 1987, he was elected to become a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale, an international design organization based in Zurich.
Printed work by Vanderbyl has gained recognition in every major design competition in the United States and Europe. His work is part of 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.
Michael became associated with HBF in 1984. Originally commissioned to re-design the graphics program his work has evolved into showroom design as well as product design. |
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