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Oct. 9, 2002

NC State Graphic Design Professor Named AIGA Fellow

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Meredith Davis, a graphic design professor at North Carolina State University's College of Design, has been named a fellow of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA).

Davis was one of only nine designers nationally to receive the honor in 2002. According to the AIGA: "The award program is a means of recognizing mature designers who have made a significant contribution to raising the standards of excellence in practice and conduct within their local or regional design community as well as in their local AIGA chapter. The areas of education, writing, leadership and reputation, as well as the practice of design are given equal consideration in measuring significant contribution."

Davis holds a master of fine arts from the Cranbrook Academy of Art and a master's degree in education from Pennsylvania State University. She teaches doctoral and master's courses in the areas of cognition and culture as they relate to design objects. At the undergraduate level, she teaches studio and graphic design theory. Her research includes work in K-12 education, demonstrating the relationship between design thinking and the goals of education reform.

She is author of "Design as a Catalyst for Learning," a study of K-12 education by the National Endowment for the Arts. She has taught for PACE (a research unit in the Harvard Graduate School of Education); National Building Museum; Wisconsin Department of Education; Design Michigan at Cranbrook; Getty Center for Education in the Arts; and the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.

Davis was president of Communication Design Inc. from 1979 to 1989. She is the recipient of more than 50 national and international design awards and her work has appeared in more than 60 exhibitions and publications. She maintains a small practice in the design of museum catalogs.

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