1915 Born in Fort William Ontario

1939 Graduated from the Ontario College of Art

1946 Studied at Black Mountain College under Josef Albers

1947 - 57 Taught colour and design and watercolour at the Ontario College of Art

1957 - 67 Head of Design and installations at the Royal Ontario Museum. For a sabbatical year was associate professor at Fordam University, sharing the Albert Schweitzer chair with Professor Marshall McLuhan

1967 - 75 Associated with the Centre for Culture and Technology as Research Associate

1973 Was the initial William A. Kern Institute Professor of communications at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, N.Y.

1976 - 89 Retired. Living and painting BC landscapes in the Kootenays

1989 - 1992 Living in Vancouver, BC
Died March 3, 1992

Recipient of two Canada Council Grants for study in Europe
Recipient of a British Council of the Arts Grant
Past President of the Canadian Society of Graphic Art
Former member of the Canadian Watercolour society

Lectured widely in Canada, America, Australia, Europe, Africa and Japan before Art, political, Educational, Religious and Managerial groups.
Co-author with Marshall McLuhan of Through the Vanishing Point: Space in Poetry and Painting (Harper & Row, New York, 1968)
Design of several works for Professor McLuhan, the last one being counterblast (Harcourt-Brace & World Inc., New York 1969)
Has published widely, including papers in Harvard Art Review, Art International, Canadian Art, 1973 Annuual, National Association for Studies in Education, Chicago; contributor to This Cybernetic Age, Ed. Don Toppin, Information Incorporated Pr. Ne York, 1969; Living in the Seventies, Ed. Allen M. Linden, Peter Martin Associates, Toronto, 1970. contributing author to 1974 Year Book The National Society for the Study of Education. Work in progress: Museums Are Today.

Has held many exhibitions and is represented in many collections. Most recent exhibitions at the Beau-Xi Galleries, Vancouver and Toronto, Prince Arthur Gallery, Toronto, and the Moos Gallery, Toronto. Currently represented by Moos Gallery, Toronto.