Robin Landa Distinguished Professor Michael Graves College Robert Busch School of Design Kean University Employers want to hire nimble thinkers—people who are not only content experts but who also are agile in adapting to new technology and new directions in their fields. With rapid technological changes and globalization, the ability to think creatively and strategically … Continue reading “Nimble: Thinking Creatively and Strategically in the Digital Age”
Amy Papaelias Assistant Professor of Graphic Design Art Department SUNY New Paltz Interdisciplinarity is the ability to combine, cross or think through multiple disciplines in order to create new bodies of knowledge. Environments that foster interdisciplinary scholarship and critical making explore innovative pedagogical and research approaches in the liberal arts, sciences, and humanities. Although these … Continue reading “Making Places: Design Methods And Practices In Interdisciplinary Scholarship Labs”
Matthew BambachMFA candidate, Graphic DesignMaryland Institute College of Art Worry Quest is an app that helps fill gaps in mental health care experienced by young adults. It uses joy and technology to combat anxiety with simple, proven, psychotherapy techniques. The app lets youth envision themselves as a hero and their anxieties as a personalized monster. … Continue reading “Worry Quest: Adventure Games for Fighting Anxiety”
Freedom Baird MS in Media Arts and Science from the Media Lab at MIT MFA candidate, Sculpture/Installation, Massachusetts College of Art and Design Plastic is a material, and also a social and cultural construct. It arrives to most of us fully formed out of the “black box” of manufacturing. Plastic’s history—only a few generations old—is … Continue reading “Slow Plastic”
Mark Addison Smith Assistant Professor Electronic Design and Multimedia The City College of New York, CUNY An illustration manifests “thought” through the viewer’s decoding of visual-based representation—be it text-based, image-based, or a combination of both. Logocentrism holds that original thought generates a need for spoken communication and, in turn, speech generates a need for writing. … Continue reading “You Look Like The Right Type”
Douglas ThomasMFA Candidate in Graphic DesignMaryland Institute College of Art Never Use Futura explores the cultural history and uses of the typeface Futura, one of the foundational typefaces of modern graphic design. The project is a playful yet passionate rebuttal to the perceived dominance of Helvetica as the typeface of modern design. Futura not only … Continue reading “Never Use Futura”
Mary Ann Biehl Associate Professor Communication Design New York City College of Technology, CUNY Maria Giuliani Associate Professor Communication Design New York City College of Technology, CUNY The Decisive Moment, as described by Henri Cartier-Bresson, “is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.” He continues “the precise … Continue reading “Commute 2 Brooklyn: Visual Exploration Along Interstate 278”
Steven McCarthy Professor College of Design University of Minnesota “How might excellence in the field of graphic design education be honored at a national level?” This question anchors this presentation about the formation of a national graphic design education award. Following our colleagues in architecture, interior, product and apparel design, whose national organizations award educators … Continue reading “A Plan for a National Communication Design Educator Award”
Grace Moon Adjunct Professor Graphic Design, Dept of Art Queens College, CUNY As many artists and designers are moved to take up social practice in their works, considering social, environmental and economic inequalities, have we paused to consider the very materials used to express our values? Our printing ink, paints, and dyes are products produced … Continue reading “Color, A “Conflict Mineral””
