Slanted Magazine #36 – COEXIST. Published essay “The Gates to Coexisting.” Invited to write an essay on the topic of “…to live or exist together, in peace, at the same time, or in the same place.” Published by Slanted Publishers, Leopoldstraße 33, 76133 Karlsruhe, Deutschland, Fall 2020.

Design 360: Concept and Design Magazine. Published article “The Future of Magazine Design”. Invited to write an essay on the future of magazine design, focusing on contemporary design publications, and specifically on the work of Slanted publishers in Germany. Published by Sandu Publishing Co., Limited, Hong Kong,
July 2019
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“Total Armageddon: A Slanted Reader on Design” edited by Ian Lynam. A published essay included in this international compilation of design essays, featuring writers such as Natalia Ilyin, Steven Heller, Randy Nakamura, and Wolfgang Weingart. Published by Slanted Publishers, Leopoldstraße 33, 76133 Karlsruhe, Deutschland,
June 2019
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Published an essay titled: “The Silent Worlds of Helena Bochorakova-Dittrichhova” in Slanted # 33 – Prague, published by Slanted Publishers, Leopoldstraße 33, 76133 Karlsruhe, Deutschland,
May 2019.
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Published an essay titled: “Koetsu & Tanaka: Zen Buddhism and Japanese Design” in Slanted # 31 – Toyko, published by Slanted Publishers, Leopoldstraße 33, 76133 Karlsruhe, Deutschland,
May 2018
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Featured interview in Graphic Design USA’s feature “Educators to Watch 2018”
Spring 2018

Interviewed by Adobe for a feature on the use of Adobe software in Tyler.
July 2018 

Published two articles titled: “Aino Aalto and the Birth of Finnish Modernism” and “Nordic Muses: Tove Jansson, Oili Tanninen & Sanna Annuka,”  for Slanted # 29 – Helsinki, both published by Slanted Publishers, Leopoldstraße 33, 76133 Karlsruhe, Deutschland,
May/June 2017
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A published article titled: “Design through Doing: Palla and Rodrigues, pioneers of Portuguese design,” for Slanted # 29 – Portugal. Published by Slanted Publishers, Leopoldstraße 33, 76133 Karlsruhe, Deutschland,
May/June 2016
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The short story “Splendent sun and tawney moon” published in the anthology “The New Hennessy Book of Irish Fiction” published by New Island Books,
2006

My presentation  “Type Specimens: The creation of a digital font inspired by hand-lettering at the Wagner Free Institute of Science” was peer reviwed & selected to be a part of ATYPi 2020 All Over, the sixty-fourth juried annual conference of the non-profit Association Typographique Internationale.
A Virtual Event, 24/7,
October 27–31, 2020

Sixteenth International Poster Biennial in Mexico (16BICM)
International Poster Competition
The exhibition will open on November 17 at the Franz Mayer Museum in Mexico City
Exhibition catalog presented on that same date.
Fall 2020

Hi-Res Daily Podcast
Invited to be interviewed by Ryan Star on his weekly podcast dedicated to all things design in the Philadelphia region.
May 2020

2020 Graphis Exhibition: San Francisco
Invitational International Group Exhibition.
Graphis Masters & Platinum & Gold Winners
Dogpatch Studios
2nd Floor, 991 Tennessee St., San Francisco
January 2020

Graphis Posters 2020 Judge
Invited to be one of 6 international judges for the Graphis Posters Annual 2020. Featured in the Graphis Posters Annual 2020.
March 2019

“Out of Site” Exhibition
Invitational Group Exhibition
Twenty-Two Gallery
Gallery B, 236 S. 22nd Street, Philadelphia
Part of Design Philadelphia
October 2019

2019 Graphis Exhibition: San Antonio
Graphis Masters & Platinum & Gold Winners
Invitational International Group Exhibition
San Antonio, November 2019

Type Specimens: The creation of a digital font inspired by hand-lettering at the Wagner Free Institute of Science
Updated type design presentation at The Wagner Free Institute of Science Philadelphia, and opening of the  above exhibition in the Wagner Free Institute of Science, which is now on permanent display in the museum, Philadelphia
October 2019 – present

2019 Retroavangarda Project Invitational
International Group Online Exhibition https://retroavangarda.com/gallery-of-friends/albums/twentyone_xdesign/

2019 IPBL Poster competition
International juried competition
Gallery of Art Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland
May – June 2019

Ghost Ship Audio Project
Recorded voice narration for the Ghost Ship installation*
Race Street Pier
Philadelphia
October 2019
*Our recording is called “An Irish Immigration Story”

7th International Socio-Political Poster 2018
International juried competition
Poster
Orlando
Oswiecim, Poland.
Poster Biennale  Exhibitions  in:
Foreign Affairs Ministry, Berlin
April 2018
IG Methall, Wolfsburg
May 2018

2018 Ecuador Poster Bienal
International juried competition.
Casa de la Cultura in Quito, Ecuador
October 2018 – Casa de la Cultura – Quito, Ecuador
January 2019 – Centro Cultural El Cuartel – Ibarra, Ecuador

2018 – Posterfest Budapest
International juried competition. Tesla — Budapest District VII, Kazinczy utca 21
November 2018

“Type Specimens: a report of the development of a digital typeface inspired by labeling by Charles Willison Johnson”
Type design presentation at The Wagner Free Institute of Science Philadelphia
Fall 2017

Vote Poster published and distributed for the 2016 Presidential campaign
Fall 2016

Collaborated with Professor Scott Laserow to invite designers to create posters for a website we created called www.postersfornepal.com.* 21xdesign, designed, and programmed the site and continues to monitor and maintain the site on an ongoing basis for this worthy cause. I also maintain all the social media outreach for the site and continue to work with designers to create posters for the site, which are sold on the site to raise money for the Red Cross, working in Nepal.
* Please note that this site is temporarily unavailable due to technical difficulties.

Collaborated with David L. Wiest, Ph.D. Professor, Blood Cell Development and Function Program, Fox Chase Cancer Center on creating an animation to coincide with his chapter titled “Control of early T cell development by Notch and T cell receptor signals” as part of a forthcoming publication titled “Encyclopedia of Immunology,” published by Elsevier, publication Fall 2015. Art directed, designed, and co-developed this animation along with writers David L Wiest, Shawn Fahl, Francis Coffey, and animator Julia Tran (BFA 2012) to develop a six-minute animation that gives a succinct overview of the complicated process of T cell development. To view the video click here.

“Living a Creative Life”
Design Lecture: 21xdesign presents “Living a Creative Life,” at William Patterson University, New Jersey, as part of their visiting designers series, April 2015. A 30-minute design presentation on the design methodology of my 21xdesign studio, its history, and work over the years. To view the presentation: http://www.njvid.net/show.php?pid=njcore:59803.

Designed and programmed the website for Temple University Rome campus. Working primarily with Dean Hilary Link we created a comprehensive website that showcases the Rome campus, its facilities, and student life and work. The site was developed using WordPress as the content management system (CMS).

Temple Summer Rome, Six-week workshop book. Designed (along with Eliza Bolton & Paul Sheriff) and produced this 140-page book that outlines the work completed during the Rome Design Workshop, Summer 2014. Printed by Blurb in Spring 2015.

Summer Workshop in Dublin Ireland. Visited the National College of Art & Design, as well as University College Dublin in October 2014 to check out facilities and student accommodations for an upcoming proposal for a summer workshop in Dublin. Successfully completed a summer workshop proposal which was approved by International Studies.

Hot For Teacher: An Exhibition of Philadelphia Area Educators
Exhibition of regional design educator’s design work.
SPACE Gallery
Philadelphia
September 4th–30th 2015

Those Who Can, Teach
Invitational exhibition of regional design educators, design work
SPACE Gallery
Philadelphia
September 4th–30th 2013

Irish Famine Memorial Project in conjunction with Villanova University. Begun in Spring 2014, 21xdesign has collaborated with The Irish Memorial Project and Villanova University to install a permanent exhibit of a significant Irish famine artifact (which we found and secured for The Irish Memorial Project) as part of the Irish Studies program at Villanova. Entailed various meetings on location, working with conservationists, and exhibition fabricators to design and build an exhibit for this unusual famine artifact. Project completion date Fall 2014.

Tyler Toons 2013, Fall 2013, The Crane Building, The Icebox, Philadelphia. Created a one-day installation in the IceBox as part of the Design Philadelphia Week 2013. Showcasing the best in student animation from the Graphic & Interactive Design Program. Organized all the projects (reconfigured for a very large projection in The IceBox) and worked with IT staff at The Crane to install the projections. Roughly 60 people attended the exhibition, some Tyler students but also lots of visitors driven to the site as part of the Design Philadelphia Week programming.

Philadelphia Design Awards 2013
The Trust Building Gallery,
Old City, Philadelphia.
Juried national competition by judges such as Patrick Coyne from Communication Arts and Debbie Millman, from Sterling Brands and nationally known writer on design.
May 2013

Redesigned and developed my studio’s website which is an extensive overview of the work we are doing in the studio as well as giving viewers some in-depth knowledge of our work and our design process. This site is also part of our push in the studio to create sites using the WordPress CMS as the platform of choice for our current and future sites. The site can be viewed at http://www.21xdesign.com. The site is also a responsive site design that allows it to be viewed on an iPad or mobile device.

Projection Play, Collaboration with Julia Sheriff, pianist, in a new music multimedia tour (San Francisco, Toronto, Philadelphia & New Haven) as part of Projection Play, an interactive video installation, and piano recital. Performed in Philadelphia, Boyer College of Music, Rock Hall Auditorium, April 13th, 2013. 

Collaborated with Jennifer Fisher Ph.D. and Yasmeen Paulette Bruton from the Center for Obesity Research at Temple University, designed and produced an interactive online game that teaches very young children portion control with their food. This year-long project, working with a team of seven people, resulted in the creation of an educational tool for young children and has since been selected to be shown on various websites. The project was officially launched in Summer 2012. 

An interactive digital installation project “Sweatcake” was selected to be included in the Summer 2012 exhibition, National Juried Competition: Digital Works at the Long Beach Island, Foundation of the Arts & Sciences. This show was curated by Christiane Paul, a scholar in the field of digital art and a historian of art and technology. She is a Professor of Visual Arts at The New School and author of the seminal book Digital Art as well being the curator of digital art at the Whitney Museum, New York. The piece “Sweatcake” was developed using Actionscript 3.0 and the Hype Framework, which combined randomly generated graphics coupled with a custom generated audio track, culled from various Buddhist chants. The audio generated a continuously evolving digital projection that played in the exhibition for the length of the show. 

Invited to collaborate in cooperation with pianist Julia Sheriff for a series of piano recitals titled PROJECTionPLAY. This is a collaborative new music project accompanied by abstract visuals. The recital program includes music such as: The Enchanted Garden-Richard Danielpour, Gargoyles-Liebermann, 5 Piano Premieres by Anderson Alden, Matthew Cmiel, Viet Cuong, Lonnie Hevia, and Gity Razaz. The program will be playing at Princeton University and Yale University (Spring 2013) and Temple University in late April 2013. For this project, I created real-time computer graphics using MAX/Msp to create generative artwork, triggered by the live audio and is part of my ongoing exploration of creating generative digital performances and installations. To see a sample of the presentation, please visit https://dermotmaccormack.net/project/projection-play/

Invitational to show in the Tokyo Book Week Fair, Tokyo Japan. The exhibition was held in Temple’s University Campus building in Minato-Ku, Summer 2011. Exhibited a book of photographs entitled “Pentimenti”. To view a copy of the book, go to: http://www.blurb.com/books/2352233.

Created an interactive installation as part of “Crystallina: A Modern Dance Ballet,” which was performed at the Tomlinson Theatre, April 2011. With music by Richard Brodhead and choreography by Kun Yang Lin, this interactive digital art installation was designed and programmed to create generative art, triggered by the audio composition. To see a sample of the presentation, please visit https://dermotmaccormack.net/project/crystallina/

Invitational to create interactive, digital art, as part of the online exhibition (to accompany a traveling exhibition) that is devoted to modern interpretations of the Japanese Zen Enso. Curated by Catherine Seigen Spaeth. To see the interactive art go to: http://tinyurl.com/3ewnebz. January 2011. Please note that your Flash player will probably be blocked on your browser but you can view the project here. 

Working alongside Temple’s Center for Design+Innovation, directed by Fox School of Business Professor Youngjin Yoo, as part of the Apps and Maps initiative which is envisioned as a hub for creating software applications, maps, and data sets, the studio aims to solve various challenges in Philadelphia and the region and to create technology-based companies and jobs. By including Tyler School of Art & Architecture & Architecture into this innovative program, it is hoped that Tyler GAID students will partake in the exciting opportunities offered by this new studio. Temple University received a $500,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) to build the Urban Apps & Maps Studio, Fall 2010. 

The Hurricane Poster Project. A juried exhibition of fundraising posters to help victims of Hurricane Katrina, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, September 2006.

Golden Bee 7, Moscow International Biennial of Graphic Design Central House of Artists. An exhibition of award-winning graphic design from around the world to be held in Moscow, September 2006.

VI International Triennial of ECO Poster, 4th Block: Chernobyl, 20 Years On. An exhibition of award-winning posters from around the world to commemorate the events of Chernobyl, 20 years ago. The exhibition was held in Kiev and Karkhov, April 2006.