Rank: Associate Professor and Chair of the Division
Qualifications: Hon. BA, Guelph. MFA, York University.
Initial NSCAD Appointment: 1990
Michael LeBlanc is a designer with a specialization in web and user interface design. During the 1980’s he was a regularly exhibiting artist and his mixed media drawings can be found in private and public collections in Canada, the USA and Europe. Before coming to NSCAD in 1990, he taught drawing and interactive media at the University of Guelph, University of Waterloo and the University of Toronto Department of Art as Applied to Medicine. From 1998 to 2001, he worked fulltime as Creative Director for ITC Learning Inc., Director of Media Design for Knowledge House Inc., and Senior Designer for PhotoPoint.com, a Media Metrix Top 200 website. He returned to NSCAD fulltime in 2001. He is also Creative Director for Origin BioMed Inc. of Halifax. In 2008 he was appointed Adjunct Professor at Huanghuai University, Henan, China.
His current research ranges from a biography of Canadian artist and illustrator Eric Aldwinckle (co-authored by Brian Donnelly), to a set of interactive physical computing works tentatively titled "The Technology of Good Intentions."
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