Trudy Abadie-Fail
Trudy Abadie-Fail is a design educator, designer and consultant. Originally from Puerto Rico, she earned a BA in Communications from Loyola University ('90) in New Orleans and a MFA in Graphic Design from The Savannah College of Art and Design ('93). She has been teaching since 2000 and is the author of four distance learning courses. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at the University of North Florida. Her research interests include: art and design administration and distance learning.

Roger Baer
Roger Baer, Educator and Designer, is well known for his work in the field of design education and practice, and has consulted widely with academic institutions about program and curricular development. He is a NASAD certified reviewer for Art & Design program accreditation. He has been the President and Vice-President of the Art Directors Association of Iowa, served three terms on the Board of Directors of the Graphic Design Education Association, two terms as Education Chair for the University and College Design Association, and as Regional Director and Member of the Board of Directors for the Design Communication Association. Roger graduated from California State University at Long Beach and received the MFA degree in Graphic Design at the University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana. As an dedicated design educator, Roger has been the Vice Principal at Oakhurst School in Pasadena, California, Chair of Graphic Design at Purdue University, Assistant Dean in the College of Design In Iowa State University, and the Chair of the Department of Art & Design. In 1991 he was a consultant for the United States Information Agency and assisted Polish Art Academies in understanding design education in a free market economy. Professor Baer was a Fulbright Fellow to the Academy of Fine Arts, Department of Industrial Design, in Cracow, Poland in the Fall of 1992. Professor Baer's professional design experiences include working with Graphic Marking Corporation, specializing in identity and architectural environmental information design in Los Angeles, Indiana Design Consortium, a multi-disciplinary studio, and his own consulting practice, Roger Baer Design. Professor Baer has won awards from The Type Directors Club of New York, Art Directors Club of New York, Art Directors Club of Tulsa, Art Directors Association of Iowa, Print Magazine, University and College Design Association, Minnesota Chapter of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, Aldus Magazine, American Institute of Graphic Arts, CASE (Council for the Arts in Support of Education).

Julie Baher
Julie Baher, Ph.D., is the Experience Design Manager for the Creative Suite at Adobe. She has a Ph.D. from Northwestern University in Learning Sciences - an interdisciplinary program of cognitive science, artificial intelligence and education. She teaches online courses on Internet User Experience and E-commerce for Cardean University. Prior to Adobe, she worked at Xerox doing both interaction design and user research. She also worked for Don Norman at UNext where she founded the User Experience group.

Frank Baseman
Frank Baseman has served on the national board of directors of AIGA, the professional association for design (2003–2006) and as the founding chair of the steering committee for the AIGA Design Education Community of Interest (2001–2006). He continues to serve on the advisory committee for this Community.

Frank Baseman is also an Associate Professor in the Graphic Design Communication program at Philadelphia University, where he has taught since 1998. Work produced by some of his students has won awards or been recognized by the AIGA, Graphis New Talent Design Annual, How Magazine Self-Promotion, Society of Publication Designers, The One Show College Design Competition and the University and College Designers Association.

Frank Baseman has been working in the graphic design industry for more than twenty years. Prior to starting Baseman Design Associates, he was an art director at Philadelphia Magazine. He has also worked as a senior designer/art director with Walter Bernard and Milton Glaser, and the Berhardt Fudyma Design Group in New York. A native of Philadelphia, he earned a B.A. in Graphic Design from the Pennsylvania State University and an M.F.A. in Graphic Design from the Tyler School of Art of Temple University in Philadelphia.

Audrey Bennett
Audrey Bennett, Associate Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Paul Nini
Paul Nini, Professor, Ohio State University

Eric Benson
Eric Benson received his BFA in graphic and industrial design from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1998. His work professionally has been focused on creating enriching digital experiences on the web and environmentally friendly print and packaging material. Benson has provided digital work for such clients as the Vanguard Group, FILA, Credit Suisse First Boston and Texas Instruments. He has designed print and packaging material for Texas Instruments, MADD, Toyota, and produced a range of sustainable print collateral for Whole Foods. In 2006 Benson received his MFA from the University of Texas at Austin with a concentration in design and social responsibility. His graduate research is available at www.re-nourish.com, which provides a depository for practical information about sustainable materials and design theory. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His teaching methods and assignments hope to serve as an incubator for producing more socially responsible designers in the world.

Cheryl Beckett
Cheryl Beckett serves as the area coordinator of the Graphic Communications Program at the University of Houston where she has taught since 1986. A few special student projects include: Project Brays and AgriProp, both site-specific collaborations with the College of Architecture; Mobility with UH Industrial Design; See Read Said Read, a poetry book collaboration with the UH Creative Writing Program; Heights Bus Shelters, and Borderlands: criss-crossing the U.S./Mexico Border. Beckett has organized lectures, speakers and conferences including the AIGA Design In Diversity Symposium at UT Austin. Beckett presented design pedagogy at AIGA Schools of Thought I and 2. Writings on design education appears in Design Education In Progress: Process And Methodology, published and distributed by the VCU Center For Design Studies; Teaching Graphic Design: Course Offerings and Class Projects from the Leading Undergraduate and Graduate Programs, edited by Steven Heller, Academic Exchange Quarterly, and the curriculum To the Letter: Language and Form from an Historical Perspective was represented at the AIGA Looking Closer Conference. Beckett served on the board of the Texas Chapter of the AIGA between 1990-1995 and on the founding board of AIGA Houston where she served as education chair from 1997-2001. Beckett has been co-honored as AIGA Houston’s first Fellow in 2007.

Paul Bruski
Paul Bruski is an Assistant Professor of graphic design at Iowa State University specializing in print, interactive, and information design. His research interests include cultural iconography and mapping used as a method to investigate and discover signs, uncover their overt and covert meanings, and to understand their context in culture and place identity.

Audra Buck
Audra Buck is an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She holds an MFA in graphic design from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a Bachelors of Journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia. She is the co-author of Sticks + Stones: A Collaborative Exchange Exploring Labeling and Stereotyping. Her experimental design work is an investigation of storytelling through a cross-pollination of journalism and fine art. She explores these subjects through a variety of media, including motion graphics.

Ann McDonald
Ann McDonald is an Assistant Professor at Northeastern University in Boston, where she teaches in the Graphic Design and Multimedia Studies programs. She holds a BFA from the University of Washington and an MFA from Yale University. She focuses on educational interactive projects with social relevance that can best be achieved through interdisciplinary collaboration. Her design work for clients such as The Boston Symphony Orchestra and The National Health Sciences Consortium offers wide audiences access to complex topics.

Todd Duren
Todd Duren is Assistant Professor at Pellissippi State Technical Community College, where he brings 17 years’ of award-winning professional experience to the classroom. Having learned “analog” design at the drafting table, he first used a Mac running Pagemaker in 1990 writing his MFA thesis in printmaking at Cranbrook. His interest in open source design grows out of early work in screen printing, postal art and xerography. Among four other class projects, his Design I students design and typeset complete literary classics from ASCII text. These and other open source projects are available at opendoordesign.edublogs.org. Todd recently initiated an articulation agreement with Watkins College of Art, and two of his students were awarded Watkins’ Presidential Portfolio Scholarship. Todd’s longstanding interest in book design grows out of a 3rd grade assignment, for Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Miss Broyles was a tough creative director. He got a C.

Peter Kwok Chan
Peter's poster summarizes the author’s reflection on teaching brand design to undergraduate seniors in a Visual Communication Design program. Students were introduced to principles and case examples of brand design focusing on the discovery and identification of design problems and objectives during the course. The students learned that achieving a meaningful brand design required: first, rational and analytical research of the target companies and their markets; second, strategic interpretation and definition of the brand design objectives; third, an emotional connection to their audiences through relevant and creative design of visual and verbal attributes; and finally, a consistent, flexible, and appropriate design expression approach. The brand design exercises inspired students to approach a packaging design project not only as a creative and aesthetic expression but also from a broader perspective integrating business and marketing, socio-political, technology, trends, and cultural implications.

Peter Kwok Chan is Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial, Interior and Visual Communication Design at The Ohio State University. He received his BFA from Minneapolis College of Art and Design and MFA from Rhode Island School of Design in graphic design. He obtained his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University in Art Education. He formerly practiced brand identity design and management, visual communication design system, and packaging design at Fitch (Columbus, OH: US headquarters) and The Procter & Gamble Company (Health Care Research Center, Mason, OH.).

Joseph Coates
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Kimberly Elam
Kimberly Elam is a writer, educator, and graphic designer. She is currently the Chair of the Graphic + Interactive Communication Department at the Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida. She has written extensively about graphic design and design education. Her books have been translated into many languages and include: “Expressive Typography, Word as Image,” Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1990, “Geometry of Design, Studies in Proportion and Composition,” Princeton Architectural Press, 2001, “Grid Systems, Principles of Organizing Type,” Princeton, 2004. Her most recent book, "Typographic Systems, Rules for Organizing Type" Princeton, 2007, presents an innovative series of nontraditional, rule-based, visual language systems for typographic composition. Her current work focuses on the development of a series of ebooks and print-on-demand books for design education on the website, studioresourceinc.com.

Carol Faber
Carol Faber received a B.A. degree in studio art with an emphasis in ceramic sculpture from Morningside College in Sioux City, IA, an M.A. degree in Drawing, Painting and Printmaking, and an M.F.A. degree in Integrated Visual Arts both from Iowa State University. She currently teaches undergraduate Integrated Studio Arts at Iowa State University. She has exhibited and presented both nationally and internationally including the International Digital Media & Arts Association Conference and Exhibition (iDMAa), the Conference on the Beginning Design Student, and the International Conference on Arts and Humanities. Her current research includes integrating traditional and digital visual methods; creating a sense of place through visual textures and surfaces; and capturing the qualities of nature through digital technology.

Troy Abel
Troy Abel is currently a graduate student at Iowa State University working towards a MFA in Graphic Design and a PhD in Human Computer Interaction. He received his BSFA in Graphic Design and his BA in Communications both from Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, IN. Additionally for the past two years he has been a teaching assistant at Iowa State University teaching a sophomore graphic design technology course. His current research is diverse and includes alternative assisted communication (AAC) for individuals with communication challenges, health-care experience design, graphic design pedagogy, human computer usability testing and graphic design methodology.

Cherie Fister
Cherie Fister MFA Graphic Design Program Director Associate Professor of Art & Design

John Baltrushunas
John Baltrushunas MFA Associate Professor of Art & Design

Jonathan Fahnestock
Jonathan Fahnestock MFA Assistant Professor of Graphic Design / Communication

Kenneth Fitzgerald
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Tyler Galloway
Tyler Galloway is an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at Kansas City Art Institute. He earned a Master of Graphic Design from North Carolina State University and a BFA in Design from Missouri State University. Tyler’s specific areas of interest are in graphic activism, typography, type design and motion graphics. His professional practice centers around Web and print projects that allow small, independent and civic-minded entities access to design services they normally could not afford.

Michael R Gibson
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Kirsten Hardie
Principal Lecturer in Graphic Design History and Theory at The Arts Institute at Bournemouth, UK, Kirsten has extensive teaching experience and is particularly committed to the integration of theory and practice. In 2004 Kirsten was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship (NTF) by the UK HE Academy and received £50,000 to support her key research project. In 2004, in recognition of her teaching success, Kirsten attended Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth 2 Reception at Buckingham Palace in Celebration of the British Design Industry and Excellence in Teaching. Kirsten’s NTF project aims to create a range of creative learning and teaching case studies and materials which can be used cross-discipline. The core research focus relates to problem-based learning and role play. She is working with colleagues internationally, cross-discipline, to develop her On Trial work. Kirsten’s wider research relates to a number of key pedagogic and discipline-specific themes including: SoTL in ADM; how creativity is learnt; kitsch; and flock. Kirsten is a member of many international organisations including: Executive Committee Member of the Design History Society; member of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning; the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education and the AIGA. She has presented papers at major conferences in the UK, Canada, USA and will present 3 papers in Australia in July 2008. She has curated numerous design exhibitions and has authored a range of articles and papers. Her activities extend to a significant number of collaborative and advisory roles with HE institutions – including External Examinerships. She is currently completing her PhD in relation to Betty Crocker.

Michael Hersrud
Michael Hersrud (b.07.73) is a designer, and time-based-media artist. He is currently working as an assistant professor of graphic design in the Department of Art and Art History at Michigan State University. In 2006, Michael graduated from RISD with an MFA in Graphic Design where he explored the role of the designer as a fieldworker and social intermediate using methods of performance, digital video, photography and ethnography. Previously, Michael worked in Minneapolis with a variety of companies, including Minnesota Public Radio and Frixsion, a design firm he co-founded, as well as working as a freelance designer in Portland, Oregon. Michael has exhibited installation work at the Sol Koffler Gallery in Providence, the RISD Muesum, the CAA Conference in Boston, the PW Theatre at Brown University, and has recently shown short films at the Hollywood DV Festival and the Fargo Film Festival. Currently, Michael’s research examines the language of transitional states as a way to create a dialogue between the individual to the surrounding environment. His teaching covers a range of disciplines including time & motion media, interactive & web design, typography, letterpress and book design. Michael coexists in Michigan and Oregon.

Youngbok Hong
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Jason W. Howell
Jason W. Howell received his MFA from the University of Oklahoma in 2001. He has taught design and typography at Oklahoma State University, the University of Oklahoma, and Southern Illinois University Carbondale. As Assistant Professor at SIUC, Jason continues his research into the function that design has on our culture. An increasing dependence on digital technology increases the need for a greater understanding between educators and researchers to identify the purpose of design education. As a practicing designer, he recognizes the need for an expanded dialogue between design educators, students and practitioners, fearing a failure to do so will adversely effect middle-class students who are yoked with increasing debt loads, but struggle to acquire quality design jobs due to incomplete instruction or artificial institutional barriers. Jason currently teaches introductory typography and multimedia design, and is the faculty sponsor of the AIGA SIUC Student Group.

Maribeth Kradel-Weitzel
Maribeth Kradel-Weitzel is a graphic designer and educator based out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She received her BA from The Pennsylvania State University and her MFA from Temple University's Tyler School of Art. She is currently employed as Assistant Professor of Graphic Design Communication at Philadelphia University and is the principal of Kradel Design. Additionally, she serves on the Executive Board of AIGA Philadelphia.

EJ Herczyk
EJ Herczyk received his B.F.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University in painting and printmaking, and his M.F.A. from Temple University¹s Tyler School of Art with an emphasis in traditional and digital printmaking techniques. He has exhibited and lectured internationally. EJ Herczyk is currently Assistant Professor at Philadelphia University’s School of Engineering and Textiles.

Kate LaMere
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Sarah Lowe
Sarah Lowe is an Assistant Professor of design at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Prior to this she worked for several years at WGBH, Boston's public television station, where she was a Senior Designer in the Interactive Department. Her research focuses on creating educational experiences using digital media. Her classes focus on interactive media, information design, and motion graphics. She received her Masters from North Carolina State University.

Samantha Lawrie
Samantha Lawrie is an Associate Professor in Graphic Design at Auburn University. Her teaching interests include typography, photography, and graphic design history; her research interests include photography and design education.

Julie Mader-Meersman
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Michael Arnold Mages
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Barbara E. Martinson
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Todd McFeely
Todd McFeely is an Assistant Professor of Communication Design, specializing in Interactive Design, at Kutztown University. Todd received his BFA in Communication Design from Kutztown in 1993 and completed his MFA at Tyler School of Art in 2000. Prior to graduate school, he was a designer and then creative director at a small design/ad firm in suburban Philadelphia. He worked for clients that ranged from financial services firms such as Smith Barney and Travelers — now Citigroup — to retail stores such as Saks Fifth Avenue, Macy’s, Kohls and Boscov’s and large multinational corporations such as GE and Exxon. In addition to teaching, Todd actively freelances, engaging in a diverse range of projects, including assisting in the editing of a documentary film, package designs for a gourmet ice cream start-up, developing corporate identities, designing and producing websites and animating motion graphics.

Isabel Meirelles
Isabel Meirelles is Assistant Professor in Graphic Design at Northeastern University, Boston, since 2003. Meirelles holds a B.Arch from Febasp, Brazil; an M.Arch from the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London; and an MFA in Graphic Design from Massachusetts College of Art, Boston. Professional experience includes work as architect and urban designer, head of museum departments, and art director in publication and interactive design projects. Her scholarly work focuses on the theoretical and experimental examination of the fundamentals underlying how information is structured, represented, and communicated in different media.

Dennis Miller
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Chris Myers
Chris Myers has over twenty years experience as a design educator at California Institute of Arts and The University of the Arts, where he was Chairman of Graphic Design from 1992–1999. He has served on the national board of the Graphic Design Educators Association and the American Center for Design. He was a respondent in the national accreditation initiative for college and university graphic design programs sponsored by the American Institute of Graphic Arts and currently serves as an on-site accreditation evaluator for the National Association for Schools of Art and Design and the American Institute of Graphic Arts. He has lectured nationally and internationally on the topics of design practice, academic accreditation, design history, teaching and learning, and the cultural impact of design.

Stephanie Nace
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Bob Newman
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Erica Nooney
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Michael Arnold Mages
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John Nordyke
John studied design at Purdue, Brissago, and the Rhode Island School of Design. He was an adjunct instructor at RISD and Clark University prior to his appointment at the University of Hartford’s Hartford Art School where he is now Associate Professor of Visual Communication Design. His journey to teaching and graduate school included positions in Chicago at a number of firms. He was among those selected as a Master Designer for the United States Mint and his work has appeared in American Center for Design’s 100 Shows, Type Director’s Club, UCDA, Fingerprint, American Corporate Identity. John is looking forward to a sabbatical in which he will develop his department’s curriculum in interactive design and the history of graphic design.

Angela Norwood
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Rachel Powers
Rachel is also an Adjunct Faculty Member at DePaul University where she teaches graduate-level Design and Human-Computer Interaction courses. In addition, Rachel is a Senior Research Fellow and Adjunct Faculty member with San Francisco State University. Rachel is a certified K-12 Teacher with additional certifications in Cross-Cultural and Language Acquisition.

Richard J. Pratt
Richard J. Pratt is assistant professor of graphic design at the California State University, Sacramento (CSUS). He received his MFA in graphic design from the Rhode Island School of Design and his BFA in painting, drawing and printmaking from The Ohio State University. In addition to earning his bachelor’s and master’s degrees, Richard studied graphic design at the University of Cincinnati. Prior to joining CSUS in 2002, he worked at design studios in Boston; Providence, Rhode Island; and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His research focuses on aesthetics, semiotics, and the relationship between art and design.

Rukmini Ravikumar
Rukmini (Ruki) Ravikumar was born and raised in Chennai (Madras), India. She has a Bachelor's degree in History of Fine Art and Drawing and Painting from the University of Madras, India, and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Graphic Design from Iowa State University. Her educational and professional experiences in India and the United States of America sparked an interest in exploring topics that relate to cross-cultural design. She has presented her research at national conferences and published her findings in international journals. Presently working as an Assistant Professor in Graphic Design and Director of the MFA in Design at the University of Central Oklahoma, she teaches courses in design technology, typography, publication design, design in global cultures and design research. Her present interests include researching topics relevant to design education, especially the creative problem solving process in design classrooms and working on self-authored design experiments that involve the integration of type and images.

Elizabeth Resnick
Elizabeth Resnick, is an Associate Professor and the Chair of the Communication Design Department at the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Massachusetts. She holds both a B.F.A. and M.F.A. in Graphic Design from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island. Elizabeth is the principal in Elizabeth Resnick Design, specializing in corporate communications and publication design. She is also a design curator and has organized four large design exhibitions, the most current is the traveling exhibition: “The Graphic Imperative: International Posters for Peace, Social Justice and the Environment 1965-2005” organized with Chaz Maviyane-Davies and Frank Baseman. Elizabeth also writes short critical commentaries and event reviews, and has published interviews with prominent designers and design educators in EYE (UK), AIGA Journal of Graphic Design (USA),Graphis (USA) Graphics International (UK), TipoGrafica (Argentina) and IDEA (Japan). Her publications include “Design for Communication: Conceptual Graphic Design Basics” for John Wiley & Sons Publishers (2003) and “Graphic Design: A Problem-Solving Approach to Visual Communication”, Prentice-Hall Publications (1984).

Dave Richardson
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Stacie Rohrbach
Stacie Rohrbach is an Assistant Professor of Communication Design in School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University. She teaches courses in typography, web design, and dynamic information at all levels of the undergraduate and graduate curriculum. She is interested in the way people perceive and process information and how their ability to learn may be improved by translating complex, abstract information into concrete, experiential forms. Rohrbach also studies design pedagogy in professional and general education settings. She has worked professionally as a designer and art director in both print and digital media, and continues to freelance in the Pittsburgh region. Rohrbach holds a B.F.A. in Graphic Design from Carnegie Mellon University and a Master of Graphic Design degree from North Carolina State University.

Suguru Ishizaki
Suguru Ishizaki is an interaction/visual designer, and an Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Communication Design in the Department of English at Carnegie Mellon. Before this appointment 2 years ago, he worked at QUALCOMM on the design of mobile user interface. Prior to that, he was on the faculty in the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon. His professional experience ranges from user interface design to information visualization to traditional print design. His current research revolves around the development of computational tools and methods for describing and analyzing communicative artifacts, including written text, dynamic visualization and print. He has recently begun to work on a project to promote visual communication design as part of general education. He earned his Ph.D. and M.S. at MIT where he studied under Muriel Cooper and William Mitchell at the Media Laboratory, after receiving his BFA in Art & Design from Tsukuba University, Japan. He is the author of Improvisational Design: Continuous Responsive Digital Communication (MIT Press, 2003), and a co-author of The Power of Words: Unveiling the Speaker and Writer’s Hidden Craft (Erlbaum 2004).

Jeff Tzucker
Jeff Tzucker is a graduate student in Communication Planning and Information Design (CPID) at Carnegie Mellon University. As a CPID student, he takes classes in both writing and communication design. Prior to attending Carnegie Mellon, he worked in litigation consulting creating communication models for trial. His current research interests center around how people learn to communicate visually via online environments.

Lisa Rosowsky
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Debra Satterfield
Debra Satterfield received a B.S. degree with majors in computer science and art from Morningside College in Sioux City, IA and an M.F.A. degree in Graphic Design from Iowa State University. She currently teaches graduate and undergraduate graphic design at Iowa State University. She has presented research nationally and internationally on visual literacy, the design of educational materials for children with developmental disabilities, Kansei design, and multi-sensory communication at numerous conferences including the American Institute for Graphic Arts (AIGA), the 6th Asian Design Conference (ACD), the International Visual Literacy Association (IVLA), and the Design Research Society (DRS). Her current research includes visual communication; multi-sensory design; Kansei design principles; design for children with developmental disabilties; brand experience design, and experience design for healthcare.

Dan D Shafer
Dan D Shafer is a designer and educator from Seattle, WA. In both his studio practice and his teaching he is interested in exploring the nebulous territory that exists between a traditional understanding of "art" and "design," and how these forces intersect with people's everyday lives. He received a BA in studio art from Western Washington University and an MFA in design from California College of the Arts. He currently teaches at Seattle University and Cornish College of the Arts, and is a board member of the Seattle Center for Book Arts.

Barbara Sudick
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Rebecca Targ
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Elizabeth Throop
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Edwin Utermohlen
Edwin Utermohlen is a faculty member of and Departmental Coordinator for Graphic and Interactive Communication at the Ringling School of Art + Design in Sarasota, Florida. Prior to his appointment at Ringling, Edwin has held teaching positions at Ohio University, the College of Design at North Carolina State University and at Herron School of Art in Indianapolis, Indiana. Mr. Utermohlen received a BFA from East Carolina University and an MFA from CalArts. Edwin’s work has been recognized by the American Center for Design, HOW Magazine, Adobe Systems, The Society of Publication Designers and the Art Directors Club of Indiana. His work has been published in Mixing Messages, the Designer as Author, Tyopgraphics One and Typographics Two, NowTime Journal, Speak, Aldus and Print Magazines.

Edwin’s studio, doubledagger.net, designs for not–for–profit organizations, cultural institutions and self–publishes experimental art + design pieces. Additionally, Edwin has designed a number of iconic typefaces, including Freeway and Garamoda. Recently Edwin attended (virtually) the Design Information Design Camp at MIT, sat as Education Chair of the AIGA Tampa Bay chapter and participated in the AIGA National Leadership Retreat in San Francisco. He is the current faculty advisor to the Ringling AIGA student group. Edwin lives in Florida with his wonderful wife, Joani Spadaro, a designer and educator, three amusing cats, a mean pair of birding binoculars and one of the coolest shoe collections to be found anywhere.

Lee Vander Kooi
Lee was appointed to the Visual Communication faculty at the Herron School of Art and Design in 2006. Previously, he was a design educator at University of Hawaii. His research interests include mapping and visual representation, intersections of form making and the design process, and the impact of unstable media on visual cultural production. Prior to teaching Lee worked as a designer in both print production and web environments.

Jane Venes
Jane Venes is currently a lecturer in Art and Design at Iowa State University. She has an MFA in Graphic Design with an ME in Curriculum Design, and is presently pursuing a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction. Her previous experience in the public schools included teaching experience in Art, Computer Graphics, English, and French. Jane's research areas include teaching for creative thinking, multidisciplinary design education, and graphic readability.

Al Wasco
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