Katherine McCoy is best know for her work as the co-chair of the graduate Design program for Cranbrook Academy of Art. During her extensive career education and professional practice, she work with groundbreaking design firm Unimark, Chrysler Corporation, and with Muriel Cooper in early days of working with MIT. Before her career she studied Industrial Design at Michigan State University where she graduated in 1967. Shortly after graduation she joined the Unimark International, a design firm led by many key figures in American Modernist graphic design. Katherine McCoy also worked for Chrysler Corporation for a year after working at Unimark.
In 1971, McCoy began her career in design education when she was appointed co-chair of the Cranbrook Academy of Art a graduate design program her and her husband, Michael McCoy. Reinvented by the McCoys, the program was organized around experimentation in the studio, with minimal structure or assignments; there were no courses and the final thesis show was the only official deadline. Each student was encouraged to develop a personal voice in a broad mix of radical experiments and practical projects that applied experimental ideas and forms.
Katherine McCoy now consults in communications design, design curricula planning at Kansas City Art Institute and post-professional design educator as a partner of McCoy & McCoy, and High Ground Tools and Strategies.
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