Meredith Davis is emerita professor at the College of Design at North Carolina State University, where she served as the department head of graphic design and director of the interdisciplinary PhD in design. She holds BS and MEd degrees in education from Penn State University and an MFA in design from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Davis has taught for forty-seven years, and she is the Alexander Quarles Holladay medalist for Excellence in Teaching and AIGA national medalist. She has also served on the NASAD Accreditation Commission, drafted its design standards, and reviewed more than eighty college-level curricula in the United States and ten countries abroad. She is the author of Graphic Design Theory and is a member on the editorial boards of Design Issues and She Ji Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation. She lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.