Michael trained as a graphic designer at what is now the LCC and
part of the University of the Arts London, gaining a first class degree. In 2003/4 he returned there to take his masters in the MA Typo/Graphic Design programme.
A first-class honours graduate of the LCP (now part of the University of the Arts London), Michael first worked for the Banks
and Miles consultancy in Blackheath, working on corporate literature and identity schemes for a client list that included the British Council, Post Office, British Telecom, National Postal Museum, Royal Mail and various blue chip companies. Combined with the creative innovation and typographic emphasis encountered at the (formerly) LCP, this was a formative influence on Michael’s design philosophy. Michael moved from Banks and Miles to Allied International Designers in London, where he worked on retail design accounts including Debenhams, Tesco, Bentalls, Hornes and Allied Breweries. He left AID to work in a
bi-lingual capacity for Murdoch Design Associates on a major project for the Municipal Authority in Paris involving graphics and signage in the Centre Beaubourg redevelopment.
He joined The Surrey Institute in 1991 when he was brought in to write a new Graphics programme for the Faculty of Design. As the Course Leader for eleven years he took it through its transition to degree status in 1994 and built a national profile via successes in the D&AD Awards and the Society of Typographic Designers assessment scheme. Michael relinquished overall leadership in 2002 to concentrate on post-graduate study and further research.
Michael currently runs the pathway in Printed Media on BA Graphic Communication at the University College.