Dan Boyarski is Professor and Head of the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University, where he has been for twenty-five years. He teaches courses at both graduate and undergraduate levels in typography, dynamic information design, and interaction design. Dan is interested in time-based communication, visualizing complex data, and how type, image, sound, and movement may be combined for effective communication. He has conducted research for organizations like Samsung Electronics, Nortel Networks, Carnegie Museum of Art, and Microsoft.
Dan speaks at national and international conferences and symposia dealing with interaction design, information design, and design education. In the spring of 1999, the Design Management Institute awarded Dan the Muriel Cooper Prize for “outstanding achievement in advancing design, technology, and communications in the digital environment.”
Dan received an MFA in Graphic Design from Indiana University and later spent two years at the School for Design in Basel, Switzerland, studying design and animation.
