Michael Patrick Cronan

Imaginative perception and innovation have been the hallmarks of Michael Cronan's award-winning design career, most closely associated with his native San Francisco Bay Area and now spanning more than 30 years.

The recipient of numerous awards from leading national and international design organizations and publications, the firm's design is represented in the collections of the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institute, the permanent Design Collection of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, London's Victoria & Albert Museum and was featured in the Museo Fortuny (Venice, Italy) exhibition Pacific Wave,

California Graphic Design.

Cronan was one of four graphic designers featured in "In the Public Eye," the first graphic design exhibition at SFMOMA in 1993. His design work is featured in the American Graphic Design Show of the Denver Art Museum, from their permanent collection. He has spoken to design communities and judged design competitions throughout the United States and internationally.

Michael is the creative director of Cronan Artefact, a product development, manufacturing and marketing company incorporated in 1991. The Walking Man line of apparel, designed by Cronan and wife Karin Hibma, won International Design Magazine's 1992 Consumer Product Gold Award and 1993 Honorable Mention presented at the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, New York.

As product development director of the SFMOMA MuseumStore from 1995-1997, Cronan created the store identity, in-store displays and a series of product lines, including architectural reference products for the new Mario Botta-designed museum building. He returned to the project in 2002-2004 to update the overall store program.

Cronan was born in San Francisco. He studied at the California College of the Arts and graduated with a degree in Fine Art from California State University, Sacramento. From 1982-1999, Cronan served as an adjunct professor of graphic design at the California College of the Arts. He is a founding member and former president of the American Institute of Graphic Arts San Francisco chapter and served on the AIGA national board and presidential nomination committees.