Michael B. LeBlanc, MFA York University, 1980. Associate Professor, Division of Design, NSCAD University. LeBlanc is an interdisciplinary designer with interests in web, user interface design, physical computing and product 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. From 1998 to 2001, he worked full-time 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 full-time in 2001. In 2013 he served as a research consultant for the Information and Communications Technology Council in Ottawa.
He was Visiting Professor at the School of Design, Foshan University, P.R. China in 2015. In 2017-18 he received two research awards from Nova Scotia Business Inc. to assist local firms with their design and communications strategy. His most recent solo exhibition of design work was The Technology of Good Intentions, Anna Leonowens Gallery NSCAD, in 2013.
He is author of Media Circus (2013) and the monograph on Canadian designer and illustrator Eric Aldwinckle Nothing Uninteresting (2016).
He holds a Basic+ amateur radio license, callsign VE1LEB.
General Eccentric, his art and design consultancy, specializes in interactive media and physical computing.
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