I am Associate Professor at the College of Design, North Carolina State University, in Graphic Design, a department I chaired from 2002 to 2006. I make my homes in both Raleigh and Los Angeles, and my studio, SuperStove!, travels with me. I was the senior designer for Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California from 1998 to 2002, as well as the designer for projects including Artext magazine, SciArc lecture series, and independent presses.
My design and writing have appeared in the Russian KAK, Graphis, Émigré, Metropolis, Eye, Print, Step and I.D. magazines, ACD 100, Communicaion Arts and Graphis. My design work was featured in a 2002 Paris exhibition East Coast/West Coast Dreams, and more recently the 2005 anthology All Access: The Making of Thirty Extraordinary Graphic Designers." I am honored to have been an "Insights" lecturer at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, a speaker at the GraficEurope conference in Berlin, the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Melbourne, ArtCity 2005 festival in Calgary, and at many colleges. This year I travel to the University of Kansas to be a Hallmark Symposium speaker.
A topic I have dubbed the DecoRational constitutes my ongoing design research, as do frequent forays into "alternative design writing." Additional current projects include writing a textbook on typography, serving on the editorial board of a new peer review journal Design Criticism, and co-chairing the next "Schools of Thoughts" educator's conference held in Los Angeles. Projects for the College of Design include leading an effort to establish a College of Design Print Lab/Press and serving on the CAM Advisory Board.
I have taught graphic design and typography at every level over the last fifteen years, primarily as adjunct faculty at Art Center College of Design, California Institute of the Arts, and Otis Art Institute, and of course at N.C. State as full-time faculty. I hold an MFA from California Institute of the Arts.
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