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Cat Normoyle
  • Community-based practices
  • Interactive, immersive experiences
  • Experimental making
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  • Research
  • Community-based practices
  • Interactive, immersive experiences
  • Experimental making
  • Teaching
  • Travel
  • Research
  • Community-based practices
  • Interactive, immersive experiences
  • Experimental making
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Beyond the Surface: Transforming Typography into Embodied Experience

Visualizing Our Story: An Interactive Exhibition of LGBTQ Oral Histories

Mapping Communication Design Research Trends Through Data Visualization

Gathering LGBTQ Oral Histories of Eastern North Carolina: An Open Call to Share Stories and Shape History

The LGBTQ Our Story project began in 2022 as an investigation into the university and community archives to discover an important and relevant historical narrative from our community,

Creating mixed realities and designing for the “physdigital” experience in graphic design

Now & Next Exhibition showcases typographic futures with augmented reality (AR) and immersive, interactive experiences

Designing participatory systems, public narratives, and hybrid physical–digital experiences.


Cat Normoyle is an Associate Professor of Graphic Design at ECU whose work explores community engagement, storytelling, spatial interaction, and emerging media through exhibitions, installations, research, and design pedagogy.

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I’m a designer, writer, and educator interested in community-based practices, interactive experiences, and experimental making across physical and digital materials. Community is central to my work and I think about it in terms of people, places, and making. Collaboration and engagement shape everything I do. I’m especially interested in how space and place affect how we connect, interact, and share, and how tools and technology shape what we make. Whether physical, digital, or somewhere in between, the spaces we create and the things we make should reflect, support, and connect with the communities we’re part of.

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I’m an Associate Professor at East Carolina University, where I teach communication design, typography, user experience, and interaction design. I emphasize critical thinking in the design process and in learning. I work with communities to challenge bias in design making and explore how tools and systems can be used or built or reimagined to shape different outcomes through experimentation and play. I love learning alongside my students and am always open to creative collaborations in teaching or research.

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Process & Making

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

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September 6, 2023 No Comments
Interactive-Immersive Experiences

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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April 10, 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.

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January 8, 2021 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

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November 30, 2019 No Comments
Interactive-Immersive Experiences

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

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December 1, 2018 No Comments
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