Stuart McKee is an Associate Professor of Design at the
University of San Francisco. As an environmental graphic designer,
Stuart has designed exhibition typography for institutions such as
the J. Paul Getty Center in Los Angeles, The Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame and Museum in Cleveland, and the United States Pavilion at the
1992 World's Fair in Seville, Spain. As a print designer,
Stuart has designed publications for the MIT Press, Princeton
Architectural Press, Chronicle Books, the University of Hawaii
Press, the Office of the Chief Architect, and the National Science
Foundation. He has received recognition for these projects from the
Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA), the American
Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), and the Society of Environmental
Graphic Designers (SEGD). In 2007, Stuart was awarded a generous
Ideas That Matter grant from Sappi Fine Paper to propose, design,
and produce a publication to service the San Francisco non-profit
organization Visual Aid.
Stuart is active as a design researcher and writer. The bulk of
his research examines the ways in which design artifacts represent
their users and inform their cultural identities. His publication
record includes papers for the journals Inform, Visible Language,
and the AIGA Journal of Graphic Design, and research articles for
the magazines Print, Eye, and Emigre. He has presented research
papers at two AIGA national conferences, The Power of Design
conference in Vancouver in 2003, and the America: Cult and Culture
conference in Las Vegas in 1999. In 2002, Stuart proposed the AIGA
conference Educating the Design Educator and served as the program
director and moderator for the conference.
