Graphic Design
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NewsLisa Mercer recently published “Racism Untaught: Revealing and Unlearning Racialized Design,” that examines how racism is perpetuated through design and how to use anti-racist approaches to counter it. Read the article here.
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NewsGraphic Design Associate Professor, Eric Benson with collaborators, Professors Tina Sleiman and Dr. Fatme Al Anouti (Zayed Univ), received a $54,000 grant from Zayed University in the UAE for a project entitled "The Fresh Press-Enterprise: A Sustainable Action Project for Paper Production within the UAE using Locally Sourced Agricultural Waste."
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NewsRegather: A 10 Year Retrospective of Paper Art at Fresh Press Monday, October 16– Friday, December 8, 2023 Merwin Gallery, Illinois Wesleyan University, Ames School of Art and Design, 6 Ames Plaza West, Bloomington, IL (galleries closed for Fall Break 10/20 & for Thanksgiving recess 11/21-11/26) Aya Nakamura Steven Kostell Courtney Cross Karen J. Spiering Megan Diddie Quinn Ferris Eric Benson E. Ainsworth Veronica Pham Claire Reynes
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News2023 Ideas that Matter judges know good design—it’s what helped get them to where they are today. Now, this independent panel of accomplished design industry leaders is up for the difficult task of choosing this year’s winners based on potential effectiveness, plan for implementation and, of course, creativity. Read on to meet the panel and learn more about their achievements. Sappi is a global renewable resource company that uses every part of the tree to make every day more sustainable. Our high-quality packaging, speciality, and graphic papers, pulp and biomaterials are innovative solutions that move the world forward. See how sustainability is at the heart of everything we make.
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NewsTaekyeom Lee received a 2023 Design Incubation Communication Design Award in Scholarship: Creative Production with his entry, "Tangible Graphic Design." Lee is an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his MFA in Graphic Design in 2014. More on the award here. Taekyeom Lee's website.
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NewsDr. McDonagh and Coach Adam Bleakney were recently featured in Insight Into Diversity. Read the story here.
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NewsJohn Avila's firm recently joined The Change Agencies. Avila graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in graphic design in 1984. He has been professionally affiliated with the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) and STA (Society of Typographic Arts) in the past and often juries the International ARC Awards in New York. With a passion for typography, John also designs and prints artwork on letterpress with antique wood fonts. He is an avid runner and is on the Board of Directors for Proud to Run and Frontrunners Chicago. The Change Agencies are the first and only national network of independently-owned public relations firms focused on inclusive and authentic communications to multicultural and LGBTQ communities. They help businesses and organizations identify, assess and address DEI communications challenges and opportunities. Read the article here.
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"Collaborating in Conceptual Spaces: How Data Visualization Facilitated by Javascript Can Improve Interdisciplinary Design Projects" was recently published in the Fall 2022 (Volume 4, Issue 1) of Dialectic (A scholarly journal of thought leadership, education and practice in the discipline of visual communication design). The article may be found here.
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NewsAssociate Professor of Graphic Design Eric Benson and UIUC 2021 MFA alumna E. Ainsley received a grant supported by the Arts Midwest GIG Fund, a program of Arts Midwest that is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional contributions from the University of Illinois. Their project titled "Papermaking Community Workshops: Storytelling, Transformation, and Therapy" will offer papermaking workshops focused on rebirth and transformation for the LGBTQ+ communities, W.I.N. recovery (Women in Need), and the general Champaign-Urbana community. More information will appear in 2023 on the Fresh Press website and their Instagram account.
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NewsGraphic Design Associate Professor, Eric Benson, receives a 2022 GDUSA design award for his podcast Climify.
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NewsProfessor McDonagh was recently quoted in the article "Fast Furniture Is Cheap. And Americans Are Throwing It in the Trash. The mass-produced furniture that sold furiously during the pandemic could soon be clogging landfills." by Debra Kamin. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/31/realestate/fast-furniture-clogged-landfills.html
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NewsChristina S. Chae's journey writing her book, which can be ordered in Korea at https://bit.ly/3fh0amO A quote from her about her journey writing the book... "The biggest project I took on this year, and the most challenging launch I experienced to date, is finally shipped 100% to Korea! The book is about work cultures I've learned during my times in Silicon Valley – It is 50/50 tips and my personal stories as examples. The title came from the questions I got during the coffee chats I had with Korean leaders in Tech. "How does Silicon Valley do ___?"
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NewsIn November, the Beckman Institute will open the doors to the (dis)Ability Design Studio. The partnership between the Beckman Institute and the University’s Disability Resources and Educational Services will support the interdisciplinary design research focused on real-life experiences of people with disabilities. Industrial Design Professor Deana McDonagh and Coach Adam Bleakney, directors, of the (dis)Ability Design Studio were interviewed in The Daily Illini.
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NewsThe Black on Black on Black on Black Faculty Exhibition will be held on Saturday, September 24 from 12pm - 6pm at Krannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Drive, Champaign and the School of Art & Design, 408 E. Peabody Drive, Champaign. Join us to open Black on Black on Black on Black, a collaborative exhibition by faculty artists Patrick Earl Hammie, Stacey Robinson, Blair Ebony Smith, and Nekita Thomas. Black on Black on Black on Black will open to the public at 4pm, preceded by a day of events celebrating Black creativity through writing, music, and art. Starting at noon | Krannert Art Museum, the School of Art & Design, and the Pygmalion Festival, including food by The Stuft Bird food truck and activities for all ages. 12:30 pm | Live, outdoor jazz performance by Reginald Chapman and Pressure fit. 1:30 pm | Outdoor reading by Nabil Ayers, author of My Life in the Sunshine: Searching for my Father and Discovering my Family, sponsored by Pygmalion Festival. 3 pm | Join us for an Artists Panel Discussion with Patrick Earl Hammie, Stacey Robinson, Blair Ebony Smith, and Nekita Thomas. Moderated by Rachel Lauren Storm, Assistant Director of Community Engagement and Learning. 4 to 6 pm | GALLERY OPENS; Public reception catered by Neil Street Blues with music by DJ CK and DJ Silkee in the Link Gallery, sponsored by the School of Art & Design and College of Fine and Applied Arts. About the Exhibition Black on Black on Black on Black is an exhibition with interactive programming, co-created by the Black faculty at the School of Art & Design, that draws from lived experiences and Black speculation, featuring works across visual art and design, socially engaged practice, video, movement, and music. This exhibition and programming invites us to experience, explore, and reflect on Black identity, history, collectivity, healing, innovation, education, struggle, and joy. The exhibition will feature Black faculty in the School of Art & Design through the lens of the Black Quantum Future as proposed by Philadelphia-based activists and theorists Rasheeda Phillips and Camae Ayewa. The collaborative exhibition will explore Black identity, collectivity, positionality, healing, innovation, and education as explored via a multi-leveled/multi-dimensional immersive, critical, and openly reflective space. This re-visioning of the Faculty Exhibition recognizes the legacy of Black knowledge and production in ways that supports the ongoing efforts by the School of Art & Design, Krannert Art Museum, College of Fine and Applied Arts, and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign towards addressing and celebrating our unique diversity, equity, and inclusion. A lecture series, community conversations, sound installation, and a catalogue is planned in conjunction with the exhibition.Co-curated by Patrick Earl Hammie, Stacey Robinson, Blair Ebony Smith, and Nekita Thomas
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NewsDeana McDonagh, Graphic Design Program Chair, Industrial Design Professor, and Beckman Institute researcher, co-directs the (dis)Ability Design Studio with Adam Bleakney, research affiliate in Beckman and DRES, head coach of the UIUC men and women’s wheelchair track and road-racing team, and coach for the U.S. Paralympic Team. This is the first design studio at the Beckman Institute and showcases the value of human centered design and how instrumental it has been in collaborating with DRES. The (Dis)Ability Design Studio is located on the first floor of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at 405 N. Mathews Ave. The building’s operating hours are 7:30 a.m.-6 p.m. For more information, please visit https://beckman.illinois.edu/about/news/article/2022/09/07/beckman-dres-collaboration-launches-(dis)ability-design-studio
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NewsGraphic Design Chair and Industrial Design Professor, Deana McDonagh recently joined the Carle Illinois as a Health Innovation Faculty member. Ten faculty members from across the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign campus are bringing expertise in a broad range of disciplines to Carle Illinois College of Medicine as the latest group of Health Innovation Professors (HIP). The new HIP faculty will champion Carle Illinois’ interdisciplinary approach that leverages expertise from across the UIUC campus to lead advancements in the medical field and improve the human condition. The new faculty join from The Grainger College of Engineering, the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences(ACES), College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS), College of Education, the College of Fine and Applied Arts, the School of Information Sciences, and Gies College of Business. Health Innovation Professors are positioned to collaborate with Carle Illinois students, physicians, and other health care providers to pursue new frontiers in health-related research and innovation, creating new opportunities for funding from government agencies, industry, and foundations. The new faculty members will also pioneer advancements in medical education and the integration of health-related concepts into undergraduate and graduate courses across the UIUC campus. “This is our largest cohort of Health Innovation Professor faculty to date, and we are thrilled by the breadth of expertise and experiences they will bring to our college,” said Stephen Boppart, Carle Illinois’ Executive Associate Dean and Chief Diversity Officer. “Our selected Health Innovation Professor faculty members will serve as change agents that both reflect their individual disciplines yet come together to focus on the future of medicine and educating future physician-innovators.” For more information, please visit https://medicine.illinois.edu/news/cross-disciplinary-researchers-join-carle-illinois-as-health-innovation-faculty
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