
Myron Campbell is an Educator, Media Artist and Designer from Kelowna, BC. Campbell created interactive web experiences with the Trailer Park Boys in Halifax in 2001, before joining the Banff Centre for the Arts as Lead Designer of Horizon Zero, an online digital arts and culture magazine in 2003. During this time, his personal net art site (notsosimpleton.com) was archived in the Museum for Applied Art’s digital collection in Frankfurt, Germany. After several years of a continuing art practice and freelance design and animation, Campbell joined Switch United in 2008 as their youngest Art Director, co-creating interactive installations for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics and winning Best Interactive Designer at the Canadian New Media Awards. He completed an MAA with distinction at Emily Carr University of Art + Design in 2012, receiving the Governor General’s Gold Medal for Academic Excellence. Following two years as Instructor and then Senior Instructor in the Digital Design Program at Vancouver Film School, Campbell joined UBC Okanagan as faculty in the Creative Studies department, where he has taught digital media since 2014. Currently, his design practice spans branding, identity and packaging, with deep roots in the Okanagan. He has led branding projects for Nixon Hospitality Group and a number of their properties including BNA Brewing Co., Skinny Duke’s Glorious Emporium, Bernie’s Supper Club, Snowshoe Sam’s, and Hello Darlin’, and has created package designs for Elephant Island Winery, among many others.Community building has been a constant thread throughout Campbell’s career. He organizes Objects in Motion, a celebration of international animated short films that has been a fixture of the Living Things festival for over a decade, and Draw By Night, a free drop-in drawing event now that brings together students, faculty and members of the public. His newest venture, Humans in Motion, which is a curated screening of international live action short films.