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Meghan Ferrill<br />
Studio/lab<br />
Lead, Language<br />
Communic<strong>at</strong>ion Str<strong>at</strong>egy<br />
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Meghan Ferrill is a writer whose literary sensibility and poetic style lends itself<br />
to imagin<strong>at</strong>ive, spirited verbal and graphic communic<strong>at</strong>ion. She gives voice to ideas<br />
and str<strong>at</strong>egies by cre<strong>at</strong>ing stories—brand stories, corpor<strong>at</strong>e stories, poetic stories,<br />
short stories, books—th<strong>at</strong> are robust, well-reasoned, and enduring.<br />
Meghan serves as the Cre<strong>at</strong>ive Director of Language for Studio/lab. She works<br />
directly and collabor<strong>at</strong>ively with the design team believing th<strong>at</strong> design inspires<br />
language as much as language inspires design. Her aim is to give voice to project or<br />
place. Before joining Studio/lab Meghan soloed as a cre<strong>at</strong>ive writer/conceptual<br />
text designer, guest cur<strong>at</strong>or, and teacher in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where she<br />
lived 1991-2005.<br />
Educ<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
BA University of Iowa<br />
Masters studies in English Liter<strong>at</strong>ure, Oxford University<br />
Selected Recognition + Exhibition<br />
Cur<strong>at</strong>or: Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam “Poetry in the Stedelijk,” 1996<br />
Literary Director: Lannan Found<strong>at</strong>ion, Los Angeles, 1987–1991<br />
Trustee: Dia Art Found<strong>at</strong>ion, New York, 2001–2004<br />
Print Regional Annual, St<strong>at</strong>e Street Be<strong>at</strong>, 2011<br />
Books<br />
Author: “33 Propositions: Marlies Dekkers,” 2003<br />
Author: “Exposed” fe<strong>at</strong>uring Dutch exhibition designers “Traast + Gruson,” 2001<br />
Teaching<br />
University of Illinois <strong>at</strong> Chicago, School of Art and <strong>Design</strong>, Visiting Professor<br />
<strong>Design</strong> Academy Eindhoven, Netherlands, Cre<strong>at</strong>ive Writing Instructor<br />
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