Cat Normoyle

Interactive-Immersive Experiences

Designing Mobile Applications that 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

January 12, 2021 No Comments

Community-based Practices

Design & Action: Students Create Campaigns about Social Justice, Diversity, Anti-racism, and Equity and Learn how to Measure the Societal Impacts of their Work

This project introduces students to graphic design as a tool for action and social impact. Students develop messaging campaigns that build awareness, educate and inform on overarching themes and topics

January 9, 2021 No Comments

Process & Making

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.

January 8, 2021 No Comments

Community-based Practices

Co-Creation and Participatory Design in Public Art: Uncovering Community Narratives

Over the last year, I’ve worked with partner, Pitt County Arts Council (PCAC) to plan and design an arts-based community project for the community of Uptown Greenville. This project marked

December 30, 2020 No Comments

Process & Making

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.

October 27, 2020 No Comments

Community-based Practices

A Blended Perspective: A Publication in the Scholarly Journal, Dialectic, AIGA Design Educators Community

The Blended Perspective refers to a process that I have developed for my research and teaching that helps designers assess their work in terms of social impact by incorporating key

April 28, 2020 No Comments

Process & Making

Art, Technology, and Collaboration: A Robot Drawing Workshop with the Pitt Pirates Robotics Team

The Pitt Pirates Robotics Team (PPR) participated in a two-day workshop to learn about and build drawing robots. The drawing robots are tools with basic moving capabilities (forward, backward, right,

December 21, 2019 No Comments

Interactive-Immersive Experiences

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

November 30, 2019 No Comments