Michael Vanderbyl (born February 9, 1947) is a multidisciplinary designer and design educator based in the San Francisco Bay Area, and the principal of Vanderbyl Design.
Vanderbyl was one of the artists in the early 1980s that helped establish the San Francisco Bay Area as a center of the postmodern movement in graphic design. In the early 1980s a few San Francisco–based designers were nicknamed “The Michaels” because they all had the same name (Vanderbyl alongside, Cronan, Mabry, Manwaring, Schwab), and later they were known as the "[[Pacific Wave]]" according to historian Steven Heller.[1][5][6][7]
In 1973, he established his own practice, Vanderbyl Design.[8] He has designed products for, among others, McGuire Furniture,[9] and HBF.[10]