Mark Fox has taught at CCA since 1993 and served as chair of Graphic Design from 2003–7. Student work from his classes has garnered awards in international competitions, including ID magazine's Annual Design Review, Graphis New Talent, the Type Director's Club, and First Place for Print in the Adobe Design Achievement Awards.

His most recent courses include Graphic Design 1: Foundation and the study-abroad class, Amsterdam: Dutch Utopia, which he cotaught with CCA instructor Angie Wang. In 2004 he was awarded the Excellence in Teaching Award by that year's graduating class.

His studio, BlackDog, has designed corporate identities and iconography for The Buckeye Roadhouse in Mill Valley, Elektra Records, Eveready Battery Co., Nike, Oracle, PowerBar, Random House, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, TV Land (Nickelodeon), University of California Press, and Warner Bros. Records.

His work has been recognized nationally and internationally in such publications as Affiche (Netherlands), B.A.T. (France), Blueprint (England), Communication Arts (USA), Critique (USA), Graphis (USA), Novum (Germany), and PAGE (Germany).

His posters have been collected by the United States Library of Congress, as well as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, where a one-person show of his political posters was exhibited in 1999.

Fox has written articles for Communication Arts and Critique, and he wrote the introduction to The New American Logo, published by Madison Square Press in 1994. An analysis of corporate logo design, "Logos=God," was featured in Communication Arts in 1999. His most recent article, a profile of illustrator Greg Clarke, appeared in the Spring 2007 issue of 3X3 magazine.

Mark earned a bachelor's degree in fine art from UCLA (magna cum laude) and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

Other websites: www.designisplay.com

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Associate Professor, Graphic Design

BA, University of California, Los Angeles

Contact: mfox@cca.edu

Website: www.blackdog.com