About Me.
Meaghan A. Dee is an Associate Professor and Chair of Graphic Design at Virginia Tech, where she also serves as a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Creativity, Arts, and Technology. Her work centers on connecting communities through storytelling and immersive design experiences and by fostering collaboration between students, faculty, and industry professionals. Meaghan sees design as a tool for engagement, communication, and innovation.
In addition to her role at Virginia Tech, Meaghan is a docent emeritus for the Letterform Archive in San Francisco and served as co-chair for the AIGA Design Educators Community (AIGA DEC) Executive Board—a group dedicated to supporting and connecting design educators across the world. She earned her Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and a Master of Fine Arts in Visual Communication Design from Virginia Commonwealth University.
Before her academic career, Meaghan worked professionally as a designer at Marnell Companies, an Architecture and Design firm, where she collaborated with architects, interior designers, and industrial designers on large-scale resort projects. Her expertise includes typography, branding, systems design, user-experience design, and immersive experiences. In the classroom, Meaghan encourages the exploration of diverse materials and methodologies, from motion design to augmented reality, all while emphasizing the importance of core design values and a human-centered, process-driven approach.
Meaghan's work has been recognized with numerous awards from prestigious organizations such as the American Advertising Federation (AAF), AIGA, Graphis, HOW Magazine, Indigo Design Awards, Print Magazine, the United Design Alliance, and the University & College Designers Association (UCDA). She was also honored with the National Award for Outstanding Professional Achievement in Graphic Design by SECAC and named the Joan C. Edwards Distinguished Professor in the Arts by Marshall University.
Some examples of Meaghan’s student’s work can be found here.