User:AlGowan

Al Gowan has been a designer since 1955, after studying at Southern Illinois University with Harold L. Cohen a protégé of Bauhauser Lásló Moholy Nagy in Chicago. The American Bauhaus requirement that all students study both two and three dimensional design stayed with him through design practice and teaching at Indiana University, Purdue University, Boston University, North Staffordshire Polytechnic in the UK and at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, where as Chair of Design, he founded the evening certificate program in graphic design in 1980, and the graduate design program with John Cataldo in 1981. In 1990 he founded and taught design history, a course that examined architecture, industrial design and graphic design in their cultural and technological contexts. He has authored three books on design, and three works of fiction. His SHARED VISION: The Second American Bauhaus was published in 2012. He is currently working on a biography and critical essay on Victor J. Papanek, author of Design for the Real World, with whom he worked at Purdue. Although he retired in 2003, he still teaches letterpress printing and gives design lectures.