Computerlove™

Full Name:

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Born:

January 15, 1972

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Job:

Senior Designer, O2

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Website

burnlab

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Status:

Employed

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Biography:

Michael Doyle studied under members of the Propeller collective at the College for Creative Studies in the early 1990s, where he first began to challenge the lines between creative disciplines. With equal footings in design and fine arts, he has applied this passion through his involvement in performance and installation art, while working across a range of design disciplines, including interactive exhibits, environmental installations, graphic design and information architecture. He has worked in Detroit, New York City, Los Angeles and Singapore over the past decade.

As one of the first to embrace and articulate the concept of "experience design", Doyle recently solidified a long-term relationship with the innovative design and communications agency o2 Creative Solutions, where he continues to explore the possibilities of experience-based communication, and the merger of art and technology with a team of like-minded artists and creative professionals.

He has also designed albums for artists such as Solvent and Matthew Dear for the highly acclaimed Ghostly International record label, and has managed to find the time to found the DJ collectives Dorkwave and Dethlab, effectively dismantling the walls between Detroit's famously splintered music scenes. Dethlab and Dorkwave have DJ'd with the likes of T. Raumschmiere, Ectomorph, Solvent, Vitalic, Carlos D., Adult., Chemlab, and Jimmy Edgar.

As much a theorist as a maker, Doyle has lectured on visual communication and experiential design at colleges around the country, was the featured speaker at a Core77 design symposium in New York and won first prize for a future communication booth design competition sponsored by Archinect and Vitra in 2002.

Highly active in the community, Doyle served as Graphics Chair for the 2003 Industrial Designers Society of America national conference, and on the board of directors for the Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit, where he co-curated the controversial and highly acclaimed Other Auto Show. As an internationally regarded cultural commentator, he is director of Burnlab.net, a web-zine dedicated to emerging trends in art, design, music and culture with an editorial team of over twenty contributors from around the world, comprised of leaders in fields ranging from generative art to electronic music to automotive design. He also contributes editorial content for online design journals Archinect.com, core77.com and computerlove.net.