My paper “Rethinking Graphic Design and the Design of Historical Arguments” was published in Message, a journal dedicated to visual communication research based at the University of Plymouth in the UK. When I started working full time in academia I realized that I was many years behind in reading design scholarship that was important to […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
