R.E.M. Ephemera, Athens and Archives Last Year, I added eight newly researched and documented items from the University of Georgia Special Collections Libraries to the People’s Graphic Design Archive (PGDA), a crowd-sourced digital repository dedicated to preserving and expanding access to graphic design history. These contributions build on my earlier work as a UGA Special…
This spring, we wrapped up Advanced Typography with a final review of student publication designs. For this project, students explored typography as both a tool for communication and a visual element by creating two-sided flipped, or tête-bêche booklets that interpret a single text in two distinct ways: one more refined and editorial, the other experimental and…
Design of the Mundane: Bad “design” wastes time. Last summer, I found myself at the DMV trying to get a state ID for my kid, who needed it for travel. Naturally, I was prepared: I had completed the online application portion ahead of time, and printed and organized all the required paperwork. We waited in…
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).
I recently attended UGA’s Academic Affairs Faculty Symposium that focused on integrating artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance teaching and learning. So it seemed fitting to ask Chat GPT, an artificial-intelligence (AI) chatbot developed by OpenAI, to write this post about the experience (in the style of David Sedaris.) As I sat in the audience at…
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…
It’s crazy to think that aside from a few trips to pick up pre-ordered groceries I’ve pretty much been in my home since mid March and it’s now July. During this lockdown I’ve gotten out my Prisma colors and markers in an effort to do some lettering while making some snail mail cards. It’s quite…
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…
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.…
Art & Design Maymester in New York I just returned from a whirlwind month in New York City teaching in the School of Art’s maymester art & design field study program. The group of 32 students spent the mornings studying contemporary art history with a colleague (sometimes meeting in a traditional classroom setting and sometimes an…