While typography is often associated with flat pages and screens, designers and artists have long explored how language and letterforms can become spatial, embodied, interactive, and performative experiences. Scholar Johanna Drucker argues that visual and typographic forms are not neutral containers for information, but actively shape interpretation and perception through their material, formal,…
This October, Our Story opened at Emerge Gallery as a regional exhibition featuring 24 oral history interviews collected over the past year and a half. The exhibition centers LGBTQ voices from Eastern North Carolina and aims to expand how regional histories are documented, shared, and experienced. Our Story project began as an oral history project [ ]
This project analyzes keywords from Design Incubation’s colloquium research archive to track trends in communication design research over the past decade. Since 2014, Design Incubation has hosted public colloquia where academics and practitioners share and discuss research and creative practice. The archive offers a snapshot of communication design research from 2014–2023, largely reflecting…
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,
Graphic designers work with materials, tools, and systems in all kinds of ways. Being hands-on with both analog and digital tools helps students expand how they think about design and what’s possible in their practice. This project was co-taught across two senior-level studios in a cross-classroom collaboration. My colleague, Megan Irwin, led the exploration of [ ]
The Now Next project asks students to consider current and emerging themes in typography to design a poster that communicates their perspective on where type is now and where it is headed next. Students examine intersecting issues such as technology, accessibility, inclusion, representation, and style to frame their perspectives of typographic futures and create [ ]