Shawn M. McKinney
Education
- M.F.A., graphic design, California Institute of the Arts
- B.A., English, Tulane University
Credentials
• Adjunct professor, graphic design department, 2018-present, St. Edward’s University, Austin, TX
• Adjunct professor, visual communication department, 2012-present, Austin Community College, Austin, TX
• Online professor, graphic design, 2009-present, Savannah College of Art and Design
• Designer/writer/consultant, 2007-present, typonica, Austin, TX
• Professor, graphic design, 2007-2009, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
• Creative director/web editor/guest designer, 2006-2009, Drunken Boat, New Britain, CT
• Assistant professor/lecturer, School of Journalism, 1999-2006, University of Texas, Austin, TX
• Art director, senior designer, 1998-1999, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Harcourt, Inc., Austin, TX
• Senior designer, 1997-1998, Publishers Resource Group, Austin, TX
• Lecturer, School of Computer Graphic Design, 1995-1997, Wanganui Polytechnic, Wanganui, NZ
• Art director, senior designer, 1991-1992, Sherry Matthews Advocacy Marketing, Austin, TX
• Designer, 1986-1991, fd2s, Austin, TX
Awards, recognitions, and honors
• Honorable mention, Ellen Hansen Memorial Show, UC Davis Art Gallery, Davis, Calif., 1993
Organizations
• AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts), Austin, Texas, 1999-2005
• AEJMC, (Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication), VisCom Division, 1999-2005
Publications and presentations
• “Digital Copyright Protection and Fair Use,” panel presentation, AEJMC Annual Conference, San Francisco, 2006
• “Design Basics (Signs of Life),” guest lecture, Whole Foods Market Headquarters, Austin, Texas, 2005
• “Teaching Digital Skills: The Photomontage,” panel presentation, AEJMC Annual Conference, San Antonio, 2005
• “Making the Switch from Quark to InDesign,” skills presentation, CASE Annual Design Conference, Austin, Texas, 2005
• “W(h)ither the Touch?” (discussant), paper presentation, CAA Annual Conference, Atlanta, 2005
• “Cover Up: Editorial Design from Idea to Conception,” guest lecture, Design in the Fast Lane, AIGA Texas Education Conference, Houston, 2004
Essays and articles
• “A Shared Language” (foreword), The Strategic Designer, by David Holston, HOW Books. 2011
• “Oulipo Redux: Extensible, Exegetic, Ex Post Facto” (essay), Drunken Boat, No. 8, by Ravi Shankar, ed., Drunken Boat Publications, 2006
• “Margaret Bourke-White: The Early Work, by Ronald Ostman and Harry Littel” (review), Journalism & Mass Communications Quarterly, Vol. 83, No. 2, Dan Riffe, ed., AEJMC Publications, 2006
• “Alphonse Marie Mucha: Poster, Panels ... and Comic Books?” (essay), International Journal of Comic Art, Vol. 7, No. 1, John A. Lent, ed., Lent Publications, 2006
• “The Good, the Bad, and the Bawdy: On the Ethics of Typography” (essay), Journal of Mass Media Ethics, Vol. 17, No. 1, Paul Lester, ed., Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002
Publications
• Type in Motion, Jeff Bellantoni and Matt Woolman, eds., Thames and Hudson, 1998.
• Digital Type, Stephen Knapp, ed., Rockport Publishers, 1997.
• Typography Now 2, Rick Poynor, ed., Booth-Clibborn Editions, 1996.