Former student and now Assistant Professor of graphic design at Mississippi State, Cassie Hester, conducted a workshop with my Advanced Typography students earlier this semester in which students experimented with physical typography to create imagery for an event poster. They first completed exercises that encouraged them to physically alter printed letterforms, then were able to…
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The Creek Between the Hedges, Drew Halbert For the senior capstone course, my spring 2016 Senior Project students worked with content related to UGA’s campus watershed initiative, a town/gown stream restoration and protection initiative aimed at engaging the campus community in sustainability through watersheds. The UGA Office of Sustainability held a ‘Watershed Stories’ multimedia contest during…
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My Type and Image students were asked to investigate the multiple meanings of a given word, generating content for a multi-page publication or zine. The design and content explored the various meanings of the word, both denotative and connotative, and perhaps commenting on related social/cultural issues. The title of the publication was the given word.…
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In addition to the traditional BFA exhibition held each term for graduating seniors in the gallery spaces of the School of Art, this group of graphic design seniors initiated a second exhibition at Ciné theater in downtown Athens during finals week, which allowed them to show a broader collection of their work and engage an…
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We were lucky to have design/educator Helen Armstrong visit earlier this semester. She conducted various workshops while she was at UGA including this one on collaborative letterform design with my ARGD 3060 students (+ plus a few random other students thrown in). The students digitized the letterforms after the workshop then did quick poster designs based on…
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I just received this awesome, lowercase g from a former student as a thank-you for helping her with job search materials. Most impressive is that she cast this herself. (Apparently it took a few tries because the ‘ear’ on the top kept getting burned out.)
I was fortunate to spend two weeks this past summer attending workshops in the Type Program at the Cooper Union in New York. One course focused on informal script lettering with Ken Barber of House Industries. One day’s assignment was to design a custom identity for “Summer Stage,” an annual event held in Central Park.…
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Second-semester students in my ARGD 3060 class were divided into four groups with each group given one of four real forms/business papers (two invoices, a health insurance EOB and a bank statement). They were asked to review them critically in terms of information hierarchy, typography, readability and general usability. They then quickly attempted their own redesign(s) by…
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This was a first stab at this collaborative animation project in which each student does a different letter of a given word (we used MAKE and CONNECT.) This project was done my second-semester design studio, Type & Image. A few of the letterforms disappear for too long (and one of the letter Cs doesn’t stay in…
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Many thanks to my colleague Eileen Wallace for helping me letterpress these sweet cards for my Dad last fall. It was fun to get away from the screen and sniff some ink.