12/5 Meredith Davis

Time: 6pm, CFA 112

Meredith Davis is professor and director of graduate programs in the College of Design at NC State University. Her previous positions include director of the graduate program in Communication Arts and Design at Virginia Commonwealth University and president of a communication design firm in Richmond, Virginia. Her design work has received more than 50 international and national awards and has been exhibited in the US and abroad. Meredith is a member of the AIGA national board of directors, founding president of the Graphic Design Education Association, president of the American Center for Design, and a member of the accreditation commission of the NASAD. She has also served on the Citizen’s Stamp Advisory Committee for the US Postal Service. Her book, Design as a Catalyst for Learning, won the 1999 Choice Award from the Association for College and Research Libraries. She is currently writing and editing five textbooks on graphic design for Thames and Hudson Publishers, London.