His work pushes the limits of imaging technologies as they relate to clothing, our environment and the human form.
He stepped away from this role in July 2018 to take on the role of executive director for the Design Innovation Initiative.Ĭampbell has been researching, designing and creating artwork with digital textile/imaging technologies for more than 25 years. Campbell came to Kent State University to start his position as professor and director of The Fashion School in July 2009. He has been a visiting scholar and conducted workshops at the Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology in China and the Auckland University of Technology's Textile Design Laboratory in New Zealand.
While in Glasgow, Campbell completed a postgraduate certificate (PGCert) course in supervising postgraduate (doctoral) research degrees for professionals in art, design and communication from the Centre for Learning and Teaching in Art and Design at University of the Arts London, which was granted in November 2006. In July 2005, he moved to Scotland to become "Research Fellow" at the Centre for Advanced Textiles at the Glasgow School of Art, where he directed research for the Centre, located in the School of Design. He was tenured and promoted to associate professor there in 2004. He then taught textiles, computer-aided fashion design and color theory in San Francisco before being appointed assistant professor in the Department of Textiles and Clothing at Iowa State University in 1998. By August 2020, the initiative will be housed in the "Design Innovation Hub” through the renovation of the old Art Building at the center of the Kent Campus.Ĭampbell’s first degree was a Bachelor of Science in environmental design (1994), followed by a Master of Fine Arts in textile arts and costume design (1996), both from the University of California, Davis.
Students and faculty from every discipline are encouraged to participate in this intersectional engine for the university. Campbell is helping to cultivate the Design Innovation Initiative at Kent State University to support design thinking, project-based learning, technology-infused maker communities and the curation of cross-disciplinary collaborative teams to tackle "wicked" problems. Executive Director, Design Innovation Initiative
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