Essays on Design Observer:
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12.07.21
Asafo-fonts
The best graphic design teacher is over 100 years old, a brilliant story-teller, and still dances on air.
11.10.21
100 Years of Land Grant Universities in 100 Points
What is the Land Grant Act and why does it affect design education?
08.10.20
From A to B (Africa to Bauhaus)
We can trace African innovation through modern art, but how about through modern design?
Asafo-fonts
The best graphic design teacher is over 100 years old, a brilliant story-teller, and still dances on air.
11.10.21
100 Years of Land Grant Universities in 100 Points
What is the Land Grant Act and why does it affect design education?
08.10.20
From A to B (Africa to Bauhaus)
We can trace African innovation through modern art, but how about through modern design?
05.29.20
A Breath of Fresh Architecture
What takes our breath away is both the thrill of life and life threatening.
05.18.18
Wing It: Testing Out Exhibit Design Using Virtual Reality
The field of environmental (or experiential) graphic design is young and on fire.
02.20.17
Co-Teaching with Eustace Tilley
What the New Yorker can teach us about understanding images
09.21.16
Greening the Grocery Store
It turns out that the recycling symbol at the bottom of my yogurt container had nothing to do with its recyclability. So why was it there? My curiosity led to findings around which I built a design class. [Originally published in 2008 and was the first essay on design education.]
11.09.15
A Sense of Direction or a Direction of Sense?
Environmental design and the brain
09.16.15
Acamedia
New behaviors in academia’s digital landscape
07.09.15
Remembering Michael Graves
On Michael Graves’ birthday, an homage in type
06.17.15
Don’t Know Much About (Type) History
Type students looking back and thinking ahead
02.12.15
Biodiversity in Design Education
Students in their natural habitats
12.08.14
Comparakeet
How the digital humanities can broaden the learning experience. [Essay is also published through MIT Press in Culture Is Not Always Popular, 2019]
11.01.10
The Library: A Museum
The library at North Carolina State University is laden with gold. Books that seem “rare” or simply too special for public shelving have been, in my mind, erroneously stacked and “dewey decimaled”.
A Breath of Fresh Architecture
What takes our breath away is both the thrill of life and life threatening.
05.18.18
Wing It: Testing Out Exhibit Design Using Virtual Reality
The field of environmental (or experiential) graphic design is young and on fire.
02.20.17
Co-Teaching with Eustace Tilley
What the New Yorker can teach us about understanding images
09.21.16
Greening the Grocery Store
It turns out that the recycling symbol at the bottom of my yogurt container had nothing to do with its recyclability. So why was it there? My curiosity led to findings around which I built a design class. [Originally published in 2008 and was the first essay on design education.]
11.09.15
A Sense of Direction or a Direction of Sense?
Environmental design and the brain
09.16.15
Acamedia
New behaviors in academia’s digital landscape
07.09.15
Remembering Michael Graves
On Michael Graves’ birthday, an homage in type
06.17.15
Don’t Know Much About (Type) History
Type students looking back and thinking ahead
02.12.15
Biodiversity in Design Education
Students in their natural habitats
12.08.14
Comparakeet
How the digital humanities can broaden the learning experience. [Essay is also published through MIT Press in Culture Is Not Always Popular, 2019]
11.01.10
The Library: A Museum
The library at North Carolina State University is laden with gold. Books that seem “rare” or simply too special for public shelving have been, in my mind, erroneously stacked and “dewey decimaled”.
Essays on Icograda, Speak Up and AIGA’s Voice:
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05.19.10
Frontin’ vs. Keepin’ It Real: A Case Study for Design Education
published on AIGA’s Voice [ and Icograda ]
Frontin’ vs. Keepin’ It Real: A Case Study for Design Education
published on AIGA’s Voice [ and Icograda ]
07.10.07
Redesigning The New Yorker to a High Degree of Fussiness
published on AIGA’s Voice
Redesigning The New Yorker to a High Degree of Fussiness
published on AIGA’s Voice
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Thank you to the editors that I’ve worked with:
Eugenia Bell, Editor, Design Observer
Michael Bierut, Co-Founder, Design Observer
Steven Heller, Editor, AIGA Voice
Betsy Vardell, Executive Producer, Design Observer
Armin Vit, Co-Founder, UnderConsideration
Michael Bierut, Co-Founder, Design Observer
Steven Heller, Editor, AIGA Voice
Betsy Vardell, Executive Producer, Design Observer
Armin Vit, Co-Founder, UnderConsideration
