The role of the graphic designer as curator addressing identity and belonging, culture, social justice, empowerment, and civic responsibility.
Abstracts
Designing for Mental Health and Wellbeing: Integrating Mental Health Support into UI/UX Design Course
Collaborative work, peer feedback and positive psychology were integral to the whole process, fostering a supportive learning environment.
Advancing Design Practices: Assessing the Impact of New Technologies and Sustainable Innovation
The research offers memorable experiences that complement traditional marketing materials.
Drawn Together: Exploring the Intersection of Image-Making and Community-Building
The Center was “founded” in response to a lack of design student cohesion and camaraderie.
Kaithi Script’s Revival: An Intersection of Design and Cultural Inheritance
Script revival serves as a means of reclaiming and preserving cultural identity.
A Sequence of Multiplicity
The design outcomes are realized through custom display typefaces, prints, posters, small books, animations, and mixed media. They generate a network of connections between projects.
Drawing Water: A Multi-disciplinary Approach to Representing Water Performance
Graphic Design, Landscape Architecture, and Architecture represent an understanding of water systems beyond existing conventions.
Design + Visual Translation and Cultural Bridging
Recognizing that certain words, phrases, and cultural meanings are untranslatable.
Visualizing Faculty Salary Inequity: A Study of Salary Compression and Inversion and Its Impact in Higher Education
Empowering faculty with data-driven information to establish a transparent salary structure.
Typography as Racialization: Euro-American Craft and Asian Labor
Exploring the capacity of conventional genres of activity in graphic design to narrate historical phenomena.
