to study with Josef Albers at the Design Department of Yale University in August 1955, and returned to London in June 1956. He then participated in the 1956 exhibition This Is Tomorrow at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, where he supplied a good deal of the Pop Art visual material (projectors, gramophone motors, film posters and probably the juke box were supplied by Frank Cordell). Jeremy Hunt states in his article on 'This Is Tomorrow' that the exhibition Pop Art poster Just What Is It that Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing? is attributed to "Richard Hamilton based on a design by McHale." According to Magda Cordell, "the material in that collage came from John McHale's files." Published work McHale was a member of the Southern Illinois University Design Faculty. In the 1960s he was an Associate with Buckminster Fuller in the World Resources Inventory and in the World Design Science Decade Centre at Southern Illinois University Carbondale where he co-authored a number of the reports. McHale published extensively in Europe and the US on the impact of technology and culture, mass communications and the future. His numerous articles include: "Gropius and the Bauhaus" in Art (1955) "Josef Albers" and "Buckminster Fuller" in Architectural Review (1956) "The Expendable Ikon #1, #2" in Architectural Design (1959) "The Fine Arts and Mass Media" in Cambridge Opinion (1959) "The Plastic Parthenon" in Macatre (1966) "2000+" in Architectural Design (1967) "The Future and Function of Art" in ART News (1973) "Telefutures: Prospective Observations" in The New Television: A Public/Private Art, MoMA (1977) "The Future of Art and Mass Culture" in Leonardo (1979) His books include: The Future of the Future (Braziller, 1968) The Ecological Context (Braziller, 1970) World Facts and Trends (Collier-MacMillan, 1972) The Changing Information Environment (Westview Press, 1976) The Futures Directory (with Magda Cordell McHale, Westview Press, 1977) Basic Human Needs: A Framework for Action: A Report to the U.N. Environment Programme, April 1977 (with Magda Cordell McHale, Transaction Books, 1978) Honours McHale was a Fellow (and Secretary-General) of the World Academy of Art and Science, the Royal Society of Arts, the New York Academy of Sciences, and the American Geographical Society. He was awarded the Medaille d'Honneur en Vermeil, Society d' Encouragement au Progrès in 1966 and the Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of St. Denis in 1974. McHale was a member of the American Sociological Association, Institute of Ecology,