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Michael's Bio
For 19 years Michael Shumate has been teaching at St. Lawrence College in Kingston, Ontario, where he is a Professor of Graphic Design and Illustration. He has taught Color Theory, Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced Illustration including Computer Illustration, Branding Design and Art History.
In addition to teaching, for more than 35 years Michael has been a graphic designer and commercial illustrator, a conceptualizer and writer, an organizer and motivator. For the seven years before becoming a teacher, he was Senior Designer/Illustrator for a mid-sized design studio and advertising agency.
Michael’s design experience extends to all areas of graphic design including advertising, corporate identity, institutional design, annual reports, display and interpretive center design as well as print and web design. As a stock illustrator with TheImageBank.com (now owned by GettyOne - search under Shumate), and Theispot.com (search under Shumate), Michael’s illustration work has been used all over the world for such clients as British Airways Magazine, Kelley Services, Macmillan McGraw-Hill publishers and Business Week. He is fluent in many illustration styles and in virtually every medium: oil, acrylic, pastel, pen and ink, watercolor as well as digital media of Illustrator and Photoshop. For a wider sampling of Michael’s design and illustration work, see the stock illustration sites mentioned above or www.VisualEntity.com.
Michael has been a popular speaker for youth conferences and groups as well as a guest lecturer and presenter for adult audiences on a range of topics including those embodied in Success In The Arts: What It Takes to Make It in Creative Fields.
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All of the work shown at the right was done by Michael.
