Workshops

Sometimes the best work happens when you least expect it. It’s hard to expect much when you’re randomly selecting plates to add to prints you’ve never seen before. But that element of surprise and discovery it what keeps design interesting, and is one of the major reasons so many designers have returned to traditional methods of making and producing their work. Happy Accidents is a unique introduction to the art of letterpressing, that encourages its participants to let go, have fun, and give in to the elements of surprise.

Lisa Rosowsky, Chairperson, Communication Design
Associate Professor of Graphic Design, Massachusetts College of Art and Design

Adrienne Hooker, assistant professor, Louisiana Tech University

Christopher Vice, Chairperson, Department of Visual Communication Design, Herron School of Art, Indiana University at IUPUI

Relevant audience: Any undergraduate or graduate faculty member (or student) who is engaged in collaborative work

Learning Outcomes:
Workshop participants will recognize and understand relationships between learning styles and creative solving process preferences. Understanding how and why people respond differently to problem-solving processes, workshop participants can apply their new knowledge to disarm the agendas and conflicts that can arise when people interact.

Activity:

Yu-seung Kim and Mari Nakano, Media Design Program, MFA Candidate, Art Center College of Design

Joseph Coates
University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
Department of Visual Arts

What changes are happening with design worldwide, what are expected, and how are Americans (and perhaps American design educators) a bit ignorant (or oblivious) of it all or… scared or… in denial?

Nancy Froehlich, Assistant Professor, Western Michigan State;
Zvezdana Stojmirovic, Professor, Maryland Institute College of Art;

How would you summarize the election season?
We want your opinion! In a word. Drawn by you. Juxtaposed. On a tote bag.

Each participant will be challenged to sum up his or her experience of the political season in a single word. Using the tote bag as a blank canvas, designers will play a modern version of the surrealist game Exquisite Corpse to create a collabortively authored tote bag.

How the game is played :

Helen Armstrong, MFA Candidate, MICA; author of Graphic Design Theory: Readings from the Field

What is the place of theory in the classroom? Is design theory a separate academic subject? What’s the relationship between theory and research? Theory and history? Should studio design educators be teaching theory, or should art history departments be doing a better job serving their (sizable) graphic design constituencies? Come share ideas and experiences with Denise Gonzales Crisp (NC State), Kristin Hughes (CMU), and other colleagues.