Process & Making
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Now & Next: Examining typographic futures & challenging the status quo with augmented reality (AR) and immersive, interactive experiences
The Now & Next project challenges students to explore current and future typographic themes through poster design and augmented reality (AR) experiences. Students conducted research, sketched ideas, and then transitioned to digital work to create 2D and 3D graphics for the AR interactive experience. The project aimed to blend typography across print and digital media,…
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Teaching Kinetic Type: Prioritizing Form and Space in motion design with Analog Making Processes
I’ve developed a project that has evolved over the years but has ultimately become a kinetic typography project. Kinetic typography—or type in motion—is an animation technique mixing motion and text to express ideas and communicate messages over time. In this project, students work with type, form, and space to design a 30-second motion piece with…
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Creative Code as a Medium for Making: Typographic installations
Graphic design graduate students at ECU completed interactive design concepts for large-scale, immersive typographic installations to be on view during the upcoming fall semester.
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Typequads is a Student Project Focused on Typographic Exploration of 2D Composition & Motion
This project challenges students to work with typography and 2-dimensional space with special attention on positive and negative space relationships and letterform anatomy.
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Research Presented at the International Design Research Society (DRS) Conference 2020: Critical and Collaborative Making
This research considers the social and technological implications of remote collaborative-making, mediated by augmented technical tools.
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A Presentation at the Digitally Engaged Learning Conference in Toronto: Experimental Practices with Creative Technologies, from the Analog to the Digital
The work I presented discussed my thoughts on the edge effects of design and technology.
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Nature as a Mediator for Making: Data Visualizations of the Wind Recordings of Horn Island, Transformed and Reinterpreted Across Media
This body of work explores how nature can be a collaborator and mediator in making processes and artifacts to visualize and record natural ecosystems of diverse and distinct places.
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One-a-day Challenge to Create Generative Art with Processing
Over the holiday break, I was introduced to a new form of digital making called generative art. Also referred to as algorithmic art or computer art, this type of work produces visual art in a digital format through a programming language called Processing and can be interactive, animated, or static. Generative art is a practice where the artist…
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Elements of Typography on the Letterpress
My focus for this class was to experiment with expressive typography, working with methods of repetition, pattern and reflection using letterforms from the typeface Bodoni.
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Silkscreen Lunar Calendars for sale on Etsy
Purchase your 2014 Lunar Calendar on Etsy for $15