STUDENT WORK 2016–2021
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Packaging Design: Sustainable design projects using contemporary flexible packaging as well as innovative eco design, rapid prototyping, and unique concepts for a specialty beverage line.
Graphic Design II: Infographics and festival promotion print design pieces employing data visualization and direct mail strategies.
Graphic Design III: Projects in brand design for businesses, including creative business models, naming, tagline design, logos, applications, and graphics standards.
Typography I: Learning the foundations of typography, plus special projects emulating historical design styles, book dust jacket design, and editorial design for magazine spreads.
The Design Entrepreneur: Wrote and taught this special topics course covering freelance best practices and design merchandise making and selling, culminating in students creating professional working contracts and hosting a pop-up market.
Mixed Media Image Making: Wrote and taught this course introducing students to a variety of print-making techniques from silkscreen to the Warhol blotted line technique, with the aim of encouraging handmade image elements for specific project content.
Portfolio & Professional Preparation: Students organize, select, and refine final work, learning how to put together a portfolio and personal brand, professional writing for resumes and cover letters, job search and networking strategies, and portfolio show management and design.
TEACHING PHILOSOPHY
See Student Work Section 1 for teaching philosophy.
“Social graphic design corresponds to the cultural dimension of the message…where the permanent-integrated (strategy) and the ephemeral-independent (tactic) are not in contradiction.”
—Pierre Bernard, The Social Role of the Graphic Designer