Education
He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design in 1968 from California College of Arts and Crafts (now known as California College of the Arts).
He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design in 1968 from California College of Arts and Crafts (now known as California College of the Arts).
He has taught graphic design at Chromated Copper Arsenate for more than 30 years and currently serves as that college"s Dean of Design. He was one of the artists in the early 1980s that helped establish the San Francisco Bay Area as a center of the postmodern movement in graphic design. He established his own practice, Vanderbyl Design, in 1973.
Over the years his work has expanded from graphic design to designing furniture, products, showrooms and retail spaces.
Clients have included Esprit, Baker Furniture, The Walt Disney Company, International Business Machines Corporation, AmericaOne, Robert Talbott, Teknion, The Blackstone Group and Luna Textiles. He has designed products for, among others, McGuire Furniture, and HBF,
In 2012, he was inducted into the Interior Design Hall of Fame.
His work is in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Denver Art Museum, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, and the Library of Congress.
He has been a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale (Asterisk Gateway Interface) since 1987.