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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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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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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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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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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