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The Arquin Slide Project in Panorama
Since late summer 2023 my colleague Dr. Emily Fenichel and I worked on a 2000-word piece on The Arquin Slide Project. The funded NEH grant to digitize, catalogue, and make public the slides officially concluded in Spring 2023 and the project is officially launched. After almost three years of work with students cataloging and translating… — read more
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Exhibition Review: Lito, tipo, calavera. Historias del diseño gráfico en Colombia en el siglo XX
For over a year, the Casa Republicana inside the emblematic Luis Angel Arango library in Bogotá, Colombia had on display the exhibition Lito, tipo, calavera. Historias del diseño gráfico en Colombia en el siglo XX.This is the first comprehensive exhibition about the histories of graphic design in the South American country during the twentieth century.… — read more
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Annotated Bibliography of Diseño Gráfico en Colombia
Since the fall of 2021, I have been conducting a literature review of sources related to the history of visual communication and design in Colombia. The sources include books and articles dealing with topics such as indigenous symbols and lan¬guages, typography and printing since colonial times, and publishing and periodicals in the early republic. Other… — read more
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Recreating the Past: Concrete Poetry and Motion Design
I presented at MODE. The Motion Design Education Summit was founded in 2013 by a group of professors with the goal to create an outlet for the dissemination of research in motion design and define the field. Motion Design is a subset of visual communication design that consists of time-based messaging usually taking the form… — read more
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Message 4: Design Politics (Graphic Communication Design Research)
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… — read more
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The Arquin Slide Project
The National Endowment for the Humanities grant will support our project “Arquin Slide Collection Digitization Project: Preserving the Heritage of Latin America,” which will make approximately 15,000 slides available to the public. Photographed by artist and art educator, Florence Arquin in the 1940s and 50s, the slides provide a glimpse into cities across the world… — read more
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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… — read more
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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… — read more
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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.… — read more
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Hispanic U.S.
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… — read more
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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… — read more
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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… — read more
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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… — read more
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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… — read more
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Repeated Cities U.S.
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… — read more
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Florida Maps
Visualization of density in Florida. — read more
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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… — read more
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Vice and Virtue Walking Tour
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… — read more
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Missing the Equator
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I am Providence
HTML, CSS, Javascript Collaboration with Jeffrey Waldman This project is a collection of people’s perceptions of Providence. We asked college students at RISD and Brown University to represent their perception of Providence by any means. We gave them a blank sheet of paper, collected their responses, categorized and published them in a website. The site… — read more