Mark SandersPartner and Creative Director

Mark Sanders is a designer, teacher, author, typographer, photographer, DJ and basket maker. He explores many of these pursuits as a Founder and Creative Director at the transdisciplinary design studio Q Collective, a former professor of graphic/ interactive/ experimental design methods and theory, and co-author of the 6th and 7th editions of Typographic Design: Form and Communication and co-author of the 7th edition of Meggs’ History of Graphic Design.

Mark designs and produces interactive projects, identities, literature systems, promotional items, books, and exhibitions for a diverse group of clients. He is particularly interested in exploring interaction design as a folk art pursuit, expressing cultural identity by conveying shared community values and aesthetics through digital interface, architecture, and experience. For example, he has facilitated and constructed participatory digital archives that are transient portals into process, presentation, participation, and dissemination.

Mark holds a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from Clemson University and a Master of Fine Arts in Communication Design from Virginia Commonwealth University.