Teaching & Student Work
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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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A Speculative Future in Design Education Realized
This work explores how design education has shifted dramatically during the global pandemic to reconsider classrooms structures and curriculum that are more equitable for a range of types of learners.
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Designers and Dancers Collaborate to combine Motion Graphics with Live Performance
Students partnered together across design and dance to interpret, respond to, and visualize the same piece of music, but through different media.
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Designing an interactive type specimen poster: An explorative hands-on process to determine form, space, and interaction.
With the uncertainty of available resources for teaching and learning online this semester, we introduced a new assignment in the graphic design survey course that shifted focus from a large-format print poster to an interactive, time-based poster.
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Designing Mobile Applications that expand and add to Greenville’s sense of Place: How can mobile applications engage community?
In this project, we discussed concepts of UX (user-experience design) and UI (user-interface design). We worked through analog and digital prototyping phases to develop function and usability and tested multiple prototype iterations with users to confirm or negate assumptions about the designs.
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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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A New Motion Design Project with Graphic Design Seniors at ECU
This semester, the graphic design seniors at ECU were introduced to graphic design principles in motion and storytelling. Students were challenged to consider the element of time in their work effectively to communicate a message or idea. We surveyed a lot of sample work on Vimeo from historical to contemporary examples. To view our Vimeo…