About Me.
Meaghan A. Dee is both a practicing graphic designer and a design educator. She is an Associate Professor and Chair of Graphic Design as well as a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Creativity, Arts, and Technology at Virginia Tech. Meaghan also serves as a docent emeritus for the Letterform Archive in San Francisco. She served for six years (two as Co-Chair) on the AIGA Design Educators Community (AIGA DEC) Executive Board. Meaghan received her Bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois, with a focus in Graphic Design, and a Master of Fine Arts at Virginia Commonwealth University, with a focus in Visual Communication Design.
Prior to joining Virginia Tech, Meaghan worked professionally as a designer for the Architecture and Design firm, Marnell Companies, where she regularly worked with Architects, Interior Designers, and Industrial Designers on large-scale resorts. She specializes in design and systems thinking, typography, branding, user-experience design, cross-media design, packaging, and editorial design. Meaghan loves learning new methodologies and finding ways to incorporate them into her classroom. She’s experimented with many different materials and methods, such as taking her typographic studies into the realms of motion design, AR, and Processing. Regardless of the final output, Meaghan emphasizes core values, process, and design thinking.
Her work has been awarded nationally and internationally by the American Advertising Federation (AAF), AIGA, Graphic Design U.S.A., Graphis, Hiii Typography, HOW Magazine, Indigo Design Awards, Print Magazine, the United Design Alliance, and the University & College Designers Association (UCDA). Meaghan also received the National Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement in Graphic Design by SECAC, and she was recognized as the Joan C. Edwards Distinguished Professor in the Arts by Marshall University.
Some examples of Meaghan’s student’s work can be found here.