Sometimes, I
teach graphic design.
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1.
Typographic Layouts
CM501 - Design Strategy & Software, Spring 2021 (Instructor)
Project 1 of CM501 is an assignment from the Graphic Design Essentials textbook, but with a twist. The student makes two layouts; layout 1 sets lines from a poem or song according to the rules of type and layout 2 breaks those rules to express the meaning of the words. For layout 2, I asked students to switch content with a classmate. Students 1 and 2 below were paired up for this project. Each worked invididually on each other’s content in the layouts on the right.
Student 1
Student 2![]()
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/96da12cf478ed0746d25de52f388ba689fef6dba15d2d530447814a0c4faeeb3/Screen-Shot-2021-04-15-at-11.56.56-AM.png)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e839d0bad7b12c68abb4395532975a4f788e98b04259045ff3e1d0535bcd599c/Screen-Shot-2021-04-15-at-11.58.02-AM.png)
2.
Digital Collage
CM501 - Design Strategy & Software, Fall 2020 (Instructor)
This collage exercise is the first introduction to Photoshop for students. Students are asked to pick a theme and find five images on unsplash.com about their theme. Using new tools in Photoshop, they collage the images together.
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f50ba5a76bad08ee89891a87d80966a3f2b8bf09d3cc7d7b7691f173e778282f/DigitalCollage5.jpeg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/00507cedcb55ceef91313f0fed742b007cbc52db51c93d13c4a093ea5918cf39/DigitalCollage1.jpeg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2fee18ec5b7558034e012641871c4b2f8f58223435c88393ba58d9bd41e5c9d9/DigitalCollage2.jpeg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8b598a7cfda4960e3d559c94b19c12c7353588f46aeee6ea11d2e9fcacbb0016/DigitalCollage3.jpeg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7740881ef471671b8aeed1465e1a2feda97a9a39fe30b390b1aba8796145c595/DigitalCollage4.jpeg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c14e4f6380933be317a6d2f22d3fcbd7a7c4719b5c14d58d44d69c728da555bf/DigitalCollage6.jpeg)
3.
Sophomore Class Alphabet
AR386 - Sophomore Typography, Spring 2020 (Teaching Assistant)
For the first project of the Spring 2020 semester, students in both sections of Sophomore Typography II were asked to design a class alphabet based on the architecture of the CFA building, 855 Commonwealth Ave. Students were assigned either a letter (uppercase and lowercase), or two numbers. Objectives for the assignment included the exploration of expressive form making and considering how uppercase, lowercase, and numbers relate to each other.
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f0fa098237feff4aab7728288ac4291478d62c28b5857fb147262188a0ada9e0/Screen-Shot-2021-04-15-at-12.21.57-PM.png)