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...

September 6, 2023
Process & Making, Teaching & Student Work
Analog Making, East Carolina University, graphic design, Kinetic Type, motion design

LGBTQ Archival Project Receives Funding from the Engagement Scholarship Consortium

The LGBTQ Archives project began in 2022 as an investigation into the university and community archives to discover an important and relevant historical narrative from our community — Greenville, North Carolina — that is less known (or unknown), with particular attention to stories that uplift and recenter marginalized and/or intersectional...

August 4, 2023
Community-based Practices, Research
archive project, community engagement, LGBTQ

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....

June 29, 2023
Interactive-Immersive Experiences, Teaching & Student Work
creative coding, processing, typography

Assessing Impact in the City of We: Observations, Interviews, Surveys, and the Power of Community Relationships

After City of We was installed in Uptown Greenville in October 2020, the project entered its final phase: assessing long-term impact of the project. We used observation, interviews, and a community survey to understand how people experienced the space and the project. Observations showed a clear increase in activity and...

Graphic Design as a Powerful Tool: Teaching Students how to Assess Social Impact in Design

As part of the RGD (The Association of Registered Graphic Designers) 2021 Design Educators Conference – Webinar Series, I presented research on teaching social impact assessment to undergraduate students in graphic design disciplines....

April 28, 2021
Research, Teaching & Student Work
Design Educators Conference, Design Pedagogy, feature, Registered Graphic Designers, Social Impact Assessment

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....

April 27, 2021
Research, Teaching & Student Work
blended spaces, Design Pedagogy, East Carolina University, feature, graphic design, hybrid teaching, mixed realities, School of Art & Design

Cat Normoyle

Teaching Kinetic Type: Prioritizing Form and Space in motion design with Analog Making Processes

LGBTQ Archival Project Receives Funding from the Engagement Scholarship Consortium

Creative Code as a Medium for Making: Typographic installations

Assessing Impact in the City of We: Observations, Interviews, Surveys, and the Power of Community Relationships

A Speculative Future in Design Education Realized

Using hands-on processes in the design of Interactive Type Posters

Designing Mobile Applications that add to Greenville’s sense of place: How can mobile applications engage community?

Typequads is a Student Project Focused on Typographic Exploration of 2D Composition & Motion

Visual Expression & Motion Design: Music, Time, and Space

Graphic Design Students work with Loeb Properties to Create Public Art Tour in Overton Square