Melanie McClintock
Chair, Color & Materials Design
MFA, Color and Materials Design, ºÚÁÏרÇø BFA, Fashion Design, Virginia Commonwealth University
Melanie McClintock
Chair, Color & Materials Design
MFA, Color and Materials Design, ºÚÁÏרÇø BFA, Fashion Design, Virginia Commonwealth University
“Designing with a sense of place, with particular interest in color and materials that are regarded as fringe, waste or by-product.”
Professional Experience
Melanie is a multi-disciplinary designer, artist and educator. Before joining the College of Creative Studies, she spent two decades working in the fashion industry and academia in New York, San Francisco, Qatar, and Indonesia. During this time, she piloted her signature collection and brick-and-mortar shop in Brooklyn, NY; taught fashion design at VCUQatar in Doha, Qatar; and spearheaded a two-year, cross-cultural vocational program in Java, Indonesia, to promote innovation in textiles and ceramics. Her recent exhibition, Color Lab, focused on the materiality of color to create interactive landscapes through point-of-origin pigments. She is a partner in the international collective, PiCoDe, that is researching best practices in preparing students for the industry through place-based product design. Melanie’s research interests include objects and experiences with a Sense of Place, the Materiality of Color, the Found Object as Art (Seeing), Interactive Environments, Creative Archiving, Making as Research, Re-imagining Waste Materials, Design Systems and Processes, Modularity in Footwear, Adaptive Design for Climate Change, and Trend Futures.
Significant Publications, Presentations and Exhibitions
- 2021ÌýRuderal Material Project, Design Research, Cumulus 2022 Proposal, ºÚÁÏרÇø
- 2021Ìý±Ê¾±°ä´Ç¶Ù±ð:ÌýProject, Product, Promotion: International Collective for Design, Program Partner (with Aston, J., Kinam, B., Miaskowska, M., and Varzim, M.) Workshop 01, Lodz University of Technology, Lodz, Poland (4-15 Oct)
- 2021ÌýCurriculum Spotlight on Sustainability, Faculty Guest Speaker, ºÚÁÏרÇø (13 Sept )
- 2020ÌýColor Lab, Curator and Exhibiting Artist, VCUarts Gallery, Doha, Qatar (11 Mar-11 Apr)
- 2019ÌýHalf/Finished:ÌýEmbracing Failure as a Means of Innovation Through Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration Workshop, Instructor, Escuela Superio de Diseno de la Rioja (ESDIR), Logrono, Spain (25-29 March)
- 2019ÌýWorn: 100 Days of Shoe Deconstruction,ÌýExhibiting Artist, Valade Gallery, Detroit, Michigan
- 2017ÌýColor and Materials Design,ÌýExhibiting Designer, Lear Innovation Center, Detroit, Michigan
- 2017ÌýTransportation Design, Exhibiting Color & Materials Designer, Valade Gallery, ºÚÁÏרÇø, Detroit, Michigan
- 2016ÌýIssue Is Me:ÌýÌýVendy Methodos and Ismu Ismoyo, Curator, VCUQatar Gallery, Doha, Qatar
- 2015ÌýCommercializing Creativity in Fashion Design, Guest Speaker, Heya Arabian Fashion Exhibition, Doha, Qatar
- 2014ÌýLucu Lucu,ÌýExhibiting Artist, Via Via Gallery, Jogjakarta, Indonesia
- 2013ÌýIndoartamiks:Ìý Innovation in Traditional Indonesian Craft, Guest Speaker, Tasmeem Design Conference, Doha, Qatar
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