Camila Afanador-Llach

March 12, 2018

Design Incubation Fellowship

This year I was part of the Design Incubation fellowship program. Design Incubation promotes discussion and development of research and scholarship in communication design. The fellowships program is coordinated by Aaris Sherin and has three possible tracks for design educators to apply: book/exhibition reviews, articles, and books. I applied to the reviews track and worked […]

January 25, 2018

At HASTAC 2017

Following my interest on the intersection between design practices and the “digital humanities”, last November I attended for the first time the HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory) conference held at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. During the opening panel (Pudom Lindblad, Tressie McMillan Cottom, and T-Kay Sangwand, with Anastasia Salter […]

October 10, 2017

Translations of Place: Plats in the Florida Spanish Land Grants

This ongoing project merges together two interests I have as a design scholar. First, a creative and experimental engagement with data visualization, in this case, of archival documents. And second, an ongoing question on how a Hispanic identity has been part of the United States since long before the massive immigration of the last decades. […]

June 8, 2017

Hispanic U.S. Now Interactive

Early this year I made a visualization of a collection of cities and towns of hispanic origin in the U.S. I departed from a database I created of about 80 places across the U.S. where I included name, state, population and a short text on the origin of the name. My initial visualization was created […]

June 8, 2017

Converge in L.A.

I recently came back from Los Angeles, where I attended my first DEC AIGA Conference held at the School of Cinematic Arts at USC. The conference was titled “Converge: Disciplinarities and Digital Scholarship” and was organized by six faculty members from different institutions around the U.S. bringing together scholars and educators interested in the intersection […]

March 23, 2017

Digital Arts / Social Justice Exhibit

My project “Hispanic U.S.” was part of a small exhibit at the public space next to the Schmidt Gallery at FAU. Here’s the exhibit statement. In 2015, digital media artist and scholar Sharon Daniel visited FAU and launched an interdisciplinary working group of faculty and students from the College of Arts and Letters interested in […]

November 13, 2016

Graphic Design in the Expanded Field

Last October I traveled to Cincinnati, Ohio to the Mid America College Art Association Conference held at the University of Cincinnati. I was part of the panel “Polymodal Sites: Graphic Design in the Expanded Field”. The session was chaired by designer Silas Munro. I presented a paper titled Towards Collaborative and Interdisciplinary Research and Teaching in Graphic Design. Also […]

June 7, 2016

On TypeCon 2015

A little overdue, here are some thoughts on last year’s TypeCon in Denver on August 12-15. This is the first time I’ve attended an academic conference to present my work. I was invited as a presenter in the Education Forum that took place before the official start of the conference. I gave a talk based on my Typographic Design Lab […]