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).
This past May I spent time perusing UGA’s (extensive) Special Collections Library archives through the Special Collections Faculty Fellowship, which provides support for the 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…
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…
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…