Based on the idea that a Hispanic identity has been part of the United States since long before the massive immigration of the last decades, this database compiles cities and towns that were once part of the Spanish monarchy or the Mexican republic, or that were named after a city, a person, or a word […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Data is a vehicle for communication. The transformation of data into visual representations is a process that lends itself to answer questions, reveal patterns, create meaning and tell stories. This computer application programmed using Processing*, visualizes a dataset containing the geographic location of cities and towns in the United States. The program runs alphabetically through […]
Visualization of density in Florida.
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 […]
21 Memorials to Vincent A. “Buddy” Cianci Jr. Collaboration with Sara Emmenecker and Anya Ventura Vincent A. “Buddy” Cianci Jr. is the longest serving mayor in the history of Providence. He is credited with spearheading the pivotal Providence Renaissance, yet his mayoral tenure abruptly ended in 2002 when he was sentenced to four years in […]
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