My colleague Moon Jung Jang recently asked me to participate in a type-driven design exhibition she organized, Typo-Poetry: Despite Black and White in Sound, that focused on language related to sound. She asked invited designers to explore typography as a way to write poetry and/or express ideas related to sound. The exhibition was on view at…
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I’m excited to be collaborating with a marine science professor at UGA on a funded project, Mapping Deep Blue Habitat in a Changing Climate, that aims to create a digital tool to visualize data about specific species and their deep ocean habitats. This project was just awarded a $100,000 grant by the National Academy of Sciences Keck…
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I just found out that this poster promoting graduate studies in the Lamar Dodd School of Art at UGA received a 2017 UCDA Award of Excellence. Thanks to spring 2017 grad Nicole Kim for her design assistance. Photo credit: Erica Hensley
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This annual publication had traditionally been solely an exhibition catalog for the graduating MFA candidates, but we expanded the content to include corresponding essays written by graduate students in art history, as well as general information about the School, its facilities and graduate program offerings. This additional content expanded the life and usage of the…
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Former student and now Assistant Professor of graphic design at Mississippi State, Cassie Hester, conducted a workshop with my Advanced Typography students earlier this semester in which students experimented with physical typography to create imagery for an event poster. They first completed exercises that encouraged them to physically alter printed letterforms, then were able to…
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The Creek Between the Hedges, Drew Halbert For the senior capstone course, my spring 2016 Senior Project students worked with content related to UGA’s campus watershed initiative, a town/gown stream restoration and protection initiative aimed at engaging the campus community in sustainability through watersheds. The UGA Office of Sustainability held a ‘Watershed Stories’ multimedia contest during…
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My Type and Image students were asked to investigate the multiple meanings of a given word, generating content for a multi-page publication or zine. The design and content explored the various meanings of the word, both denotative and connotative, and perhaps commenting on related social/cultural issues. The title of the publication was the given word.…
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In addition to the traditional BFA exhibition held each term for graduating seniors in the gallery spaces of the School of Art, this group of graphic design seniors initiated a second exhibition at Ciné theater in downtown Athens during finals week, which allowed them to show a broader collection of their work and engage an…
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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…
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I just received this awesome, lowercase g from a former student as a thank-you for helping her with job search materials. Most impressive is that she cast this herself. (Apparently it took a few tries because the ‘ear’ on the top kept getting burned out.)