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…
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…
Even before covid-19 sent us all ‘pivoting’ to online we had a fairly new typography course for non-majors approved to have a dedicated online format. I ended up teaching the course, ARGD 2030e Introduction to Typography in Visual Communication, during the summer term. It was both a new course preparation/design as well as the challenge of learning…
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…
p5.js Workshop I sat in on an afternoon workshop last week with my new colleague Xin Xin, a new media artist who is an assistant professor in both Art and Women’s Studies. We made dynamic flag designs using the p5 java script library. This is my ‘autumn’ flag
We were lucky to have design/educator Helen Armstrong visit earlier this semester. She conducted various workshops while she was at UGA including this one on collaborative letterform design with my ARGD 3060 students (+ plus a few random other students thrown in). The students digitized the letterforms after the workshop then did quick poster designs based on…
I was fortunate to spend two weeks this past summer attending workshops in the Type Program at the Cooper Union in New York. One course focused on informal script lettering with Ken Barber of House Industries. One day’s assignment was to design a custom identity for “Summer Stage,” an annual event held in Central Park.…
This was a first stab at this collaborative animation project in which each student does a different letter of a given word (we used MAKE and CONNECT.) This project was done my second-semester design studio, Type & Image. A few of the letterforms disappear for too long (and one of the letter Cs doesn’t stay in…