VERMONT COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS (VCFA)
Tim Murray is a graphic designer and educator based in Sioux Falls SD. With over 15 years of experience, Tim’s design practice includes environmental design, print and book design, experience design, branding and identity, motion and photography, and illustration. In addition to undergraduate degrees in theatrical design and philosophy from the University of Missouri, Columbia, Tim also holds an MFA in Graphic Design from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. A former interpreter, Tim is fluent in Spanish and conversational in several other languages. His research interests include: information design in the built environment; the dual role of creative tools as both extensions and constraints; the ethics of the “attention economy”; speculative fiction as a tool for designing the future; and the interplay between our creative agency and AI.
WHO IS SOMEONE YOU LOOK UP TO IN YOUR FIELD? EITHER TODAY OR HISTORICALLY?
I have loved Massimo Vignelli’s work ever since I first saw his New York subway maps, and I’ve been interested lately in Sister Corita Kent, in her roles both as a visual creator, and also as an educator. Taking a slightly wider view of “my field,” architect Antoni Gaudí and sculptor Eduardo Chillida both made lasting impressions on my sense of how a creative voice could shape a place through shaping its visual culture, and George Orwell, William Gibson, and C.S. Lewis have shaped the way I think and tell stories.
