Teaching Portfolio
Women’s Suffrage in Motion
On 14, Mar 2019 | In Image and Tech Tinkering, Motion, Typography | By Matthew
Dr. Ham trusted me to work independently with the students to lead critiques, lectures, and tutorials.
Module 3: Animated Design Systems: In this assignment, students take their printed posters from Module 2 and explore how their message changes when setting their work in motion. Then, they study how their work changes when put into a real-life scenario.
Read more…Women’s Suffrage in Print
On 15, Feb 2019 | In Image and Tech Tinkering, Print, Typography | By Matthew
Dr. Ham trusted me to work independently with the students to lead critiques, lectures, and tutorials.
Module 2: Computational Design Systems: In this assignment, students explore making grids with Shape Grammars and rules for how their design elements will fit into the grid. Then, they test their design system by creating two very different posters with the same rules.
Read more…Crowdsourcing DataViz App (Fall17)
On 15, Oct 2017 | In Branding, Gaming, Interaction, Motion, Online/Mobile I.D. Systems | By Matthew
In the course “Online and Mobile Interaction Design Systems,” Dr. Armstrong trusted me to assist in critiques, lectures, and tutorials (motion and interactive prototyping).
Read more…Cognitive Theories with Type
On 18, Apr 2017 | In Print, Typography, Typography 1 | By Matthew
This assignment asked students to research two different cognitive theories and enact them with a typographic poster. Students were directed to watch three segments of the National Geographic show “Brain Games” and take notes.
Read more…Visual Semantics with Type
On 10, Feb 2017 | In Print, Typography, Typography 1 | By Matthew
In this assignment, students explore the power of visual semantics by altering or manipulating type.
Read more…Type as Signifier
On 27, Jan 2017 | In Print, Typography, Typography 1 | By Matthew
Type as Signifier: Visual semantics deals with the use and manipulation of words (letters) to illustrate an idea, an action, or evoke some particular pictorial image. This involves the treatment and arrangement of letters in such a way as to make a word visually self-explanatory. – Paul Rand: A Designer’s Art
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