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

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...

November 30, 2019
Interactive-Immersive Experiences, Teaching & Student Work
ECU, motion design, Motion Graphics, School of Art & Design, student work

Citizen Makers Workshop at the 20th Anniversary National Gathering of Imagining America

I presented and ran a new engagement workshop with conference attendees titled Citizen Makers in Community Design Intervention + Action at the Imagining America 20th Anniversary National Conference this fall in Albuquerque, New Mexico, October 18-20, 2019. This collaborative and interactive workshop introduces participants to a citizen-inclusive design process that...

November 1, 2019
Community-based Practices, Research
AIGA, Citizen Makers Workshop, Community Design Intervention, community engagement, Dialectic, Imagining America, The Blended Perspective

Design Inquiry’s Futurespective Exhibition Opens October 4 at MECA Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, Maine

The Futurespective Exhibition is “a series of installations that rethink the past in the present to point to the future.” The exhibition shows current work of those that have participated in Design Inquiry gatherings and have made work in responses to those experiences. I had two projects featured in the show:...

October 4, 2019
Process & Making, Research
Design Inquiry, Futurespective, nature-mediated art, technology-mediated art

Design Activism and Impact in the Classroom: Presenting at CAA 2019 with Design Incubation Panel in New York

Last month, I presented work at the College Art Association (CAA) 2019 Conference in New York with the Design Incubation panel. My presentation reviewed a methodology, based on my research and design practice, called the ‘blended perspective’, that merges rigorous social impact assessment (SIA) guidelines from the social sciences with...

March 23, 2019
Community-based Practices, Research, Teaching & Student Work
College Arts Association, design activism, Design Framework, Design Incubation, Design Pedagogy, social design, Social Impact Assessment, Student Case Studies

Motion Design in the Context of Place, a new publication in the book, The Theory & Practice of Motion Design Critical Perspectives and Professional Practice

I am very excited to announce that the chapter, Motion Design in the Context of Place, was published in the book, The Theory and Practice of Motion Design: Critical Perspectives and Professional Practice, 1st Edition, edited by R. Brian Stone and Leah Wahlin, this past summer, July 2018. This chapter was completed...

A Week of Engagement in the Land of 10,000 Lakes

As part of my research and engagement scholarship, I attended the 2018 Engagement Scholarship Consortium in Minneapolis, Minnesota this past semester. The conference supports a range of engagement research that focuses on university-community partnerships—partnerships that build and strengthen diverse communities for residents. The types of projects represented at the conference cross many boundaries...

November 16, 2018
Travel
Bde Maka Ska, community engagement, Engagement Scholarship Consortium, Lake of the Isle, Loring Greenway, Mill City Museum, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Surley Brewing, Walker Art Center

Cat Normoyle

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

Citizen Makers Workshop at the 20th Anniversary National Gathering of Imagining America

Design Inquiry’s Futurespective Exhibition Opens October 4 at MECA Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, Maine

Motion Design in the Context of Place, a new publication in the book, The Theory & Practice of Motion Design Critical Perspectives and Professional Practice

A Week of Engagement in the Land of 10,000 Lakes

A Presentation at the Digitally Engaged Learning Conference in Toronto: Experimental Practices with Creative Technologies, from the Analog to the Digital

Nature as a Mediator for Making: Data Visualizations of the Wind Recordings of Horn Island, Transformed and Reinterpreted Across Media