Katherine McCoy focuses on communication design, design criticism, and graduate design education. She began her work at Unimark International, an influential interdisciplinary American design firm. There she had the opportunity to build on her industrial design education, assimilating Swiss-school graphic design form and method from Unimark’s European design staff, and participating in projects combining corporate identity, interior, exhibition and industrial design. In 1971, Katherine and her husband, Michael, became CoChairs of Cranbrook’s Graduate Department of Design, and formed McCoy & McCoy. Clients have included Chronicle Books, Chicago Bears, Detroit Institute of Arts, Denver Art Museum, and International Design Center Nagoya. Current work focuses on branding and interpretative materials for museums and Colorado environmental groups. Since 1997, she and Michael have hosted the High Ground Design Conversation, an annual gathering of design curators, critics and educators.