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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]