Last spring my colleague Moon Jang and I co-taught ARGD 4030, Advanced Typography, each designing a complementary half of the course. Moon’s portion focused on letterforms (micro) through the design of a partial custom typeface while my part focused on typesetting and design of larger bodies of text (macro).
This past May I spent time perusing UGA’s (extensive) Special Collections Library archives through Special Collections Faculty Fellowship, which provides support for development of archives–centered pedagogy. Along with five other faculty from various disciplines we planned student activities and archives interactions for our courses. Topics ranged from disaster preparedness to investigative reporting to the sociology…
I asked Chat GPT, an artificial-intelligence (AI) chatbot developed by OpenAI, to write this post (in the style of David Sedaris) about the recent UGA Academic Affairs Faculty Symposium I attended that focused on Artificial Intelligence in teaching and learning: As I sat in the audience at the UGA Faculty Symposium, listening to the speakers…
Last year I was part of an informal faculty group interested in learning more about alternative assessment models. We consulted various resources but started with the book, Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning then we redesigned our fall 2021 course(s) to integrate non-traditional assessment models such as labor-based, opt-in or speculative grading. For ARGD 3060 Type & Image, a junior-level…
Well, there ya go, over a year has passed since I last posted, and little has changed. Seems like that time just fell into a black hole. To sum up last year: mandated to teach hybrid with no technological support. Exhausting. This year: back to normal with zero health and safety measures: no masks, no…
As a designer, participating in exhibitions does not necessarily feel like quite the right fit for much of the work we do, since we tend to create highly functional or ephemeral work for a particular context that is not particularly precious, unlike the work more typically found in galleries. But exhibitions are the tradition in…
This past weekend I was fortunate to accompany a colleague in Marine Science and some of her students aboard the research vessel, R/V Savannah, that docks at UGA’s Skidaway Island Oceanographic Institute near Savannah. We stopped at five locations (stations) from the estuary out to the gulf stream where the students were able to sample…
Book Cover as Poster: I was excited to have my poster chosen for inclusion in the 4th Annual Poster Show Poster Show: Chapter 4 by the Atlanta chapter of AIGA, which requested designs book cover designs in poster format. Submitted posters were curated with the winning entries displayed at the 4th Annual Poster Show in Atlanta this June.…
Book Cover as Poster I was excited to have my poster chosen for inclusion in the 4th Annual Poster Show in June, Poster Show: Chapter 4. The Atlanta chapter of AIGA asked members of the design community to design a new cover for an old favorite book or from a recent read, etc. Submitted posters were curated…
Teaching Tolerance Materials Packaging client: Southern Poverty Law Center K–12 education materials developed by the Teaching Tolerance division of the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama. I worked on two publications covers, a video cover/case and the outer box. The theme for these biennually-produced materials was the historical struggle for equality in the U.S.…
