[2] Michael McCoy graduated from Michigan State University with a degree in Industrial Design.
[1] Along with his wife, Katherine, McCoy served as co-chair of the graduate program in design at the Cranbrook Academy of Art for 23 years.
In addition, he served as distinguished visiting professor at the Royal College of Art in London from 1994 to 1996, and senior lecturer at the IIT Institute of Design from 1995 to 2003.
[4] McCoy continues to write and lecture internationally on his strategies for interpreting technology and information.
This award “recognizes visionaries who have affected a paradigm shift in design thinking or practice through writing, research, and scholarship”.