Professor Michael (Tim) Steele
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Graphic Design
Michael (Tim) Steele is Professor of Graphic Design in the Department of Visual Arts, where he has taught since 1985. Steele received his Master of Fine Arts degree from Washington State University in 1980. He teaches courses in Graphic Design theory, typography, visual communications, portfolio preparation, and animation, and supervises the Visual Arts Internships in the department.
An active artist as well as a designer, Steele has exhibited his artworks throughout the United States and in India in competitive, adjudicated, touring, and invitational exhibitions. As a graphic designer, he has worked as an art director, and in advertising as an artist and advertising designer. His freelance work includes commissions for such firms as: First National Bank in Brookings, Bankfirst in Brookings and Sioux Falls, Advance in Brookings, The Brookings Medical Clinic, techsigns, and National Staff Search. Steele’s design work includes posters, brochures, identity systems and collateral design material for numerous non-profit organizations.
In addition to his design and art work, Steele experiments with photography and has received numerous study travel grants, which have included travel to Japan, Thailand, China, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, France and The Czech Republic.
In 2001, he received the F.O. Butler Foundation Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching, and in 1990 received a Poynter Institute for Media Studies, Teaching Fellowship in recognition for his outstanding teaching.
Other awards:
2004 Griffith Foundation Study Award
2003 & 2002 Bush Faculty Development Grants.
2000 Govenors Award for Teaching with Technology
1999 "The Haptic Texture and the Optical Virtual Image" research award; and Faculty Development Scholars Program.
1998 Griffith Foundation Study Award.
1988 South Dakota Arts Council Fellowship Award.
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