Postsecondary Education
California Institute of the Arts
Master of Fine Arts
Graphic Design
Tulane University
Bachelor of Arts
English
Teaching Experience
Austin Community College | Visual Comm. Dept. < Adjunct Associate Professor > Austin, TX
Courses: Design Communication I, Design Concepts, Typography.
2012 - present
Savannah College of Art and Design | Graphic Design Program < Online Professor > Austin, TX
Courses: Poster Design (graduate), Digital Page and Web Graphics, Business of Graphic Design, History of Graphic Design, Vector and Raster Graphics, Type I, Type II, Packaging, Interface Design, Studio I, Studio II, Portfolio.
2009 - present
St. Edward's University | Visual Studies Dept. < Adjunct Associate Professor > Austin, TX
Course: Typography 1
2018 - 2019
Texas State University | School of Art & Design < Adjunct Lecturer > San Marcos, TX
Courses: Art Direction, Branding Systems, Typography II.
2012
Savannah College of Art and Design | Graphic Design Program < Professor > Savannah, GA
Served on Competitions, New Media, and Interdisciplinary Committees. Designed logotypes and marketing materials for student competitions. Courses: Introduction to Graphic Design, Digital Page and Web Graphics, History of Graphic Design, Typography I, Vector Graphics, Web Design.
2007 - 2009
University of Texas | School of Journalism < Assistant Professor, Lecturer > Austin, TX
Served as Founding Design Advisor, Orange Magazine and Design Consultant, School of Journalism. Art directed two redesigns of the School of Journalism website. Designed logotypes, marketing materials and print ads. Courses: Visual Design, Web Publishing, Print Design, Advanced Visual Design.
1999 - 2006
Wanganui Polytechnic | School of Computer Graphic Design < Lecturer > Wanganui, NZ
Designed marketing materials, created new courses, helped develop a graduate degree program.
Courses: Computer Graphic Design Ill, Typography IV, Online Media, Senior Thesis, Design History.
1995 - 1997
Professional Publications
PUBLISHED ARTICLES
A Shared Language” (foreword)
The Strategic Designer | David Holston, author | HOW Books | 2011
Oulipo Redux: Extensible, Exegetic, Ex Post Facto” (essay)
Drunken Boat, No. 8 | Ravi Shankar, ed. | Drunken Boat Publications | 2006
Margaret Bourke-White: The Early Work, by Ronald Ostman and Harry Littel” (review)
Journalism & Mass Communications Quarterly, Vol. 83, No. 2 | Dan Riffe, ed. | AEJMC Publications | 2006
Alphonse Marie Mucha: Poster, Panels … and Comic Books?” (essay)
International Journal of Comic Art, Vol. 7, No. 1 | John A. Lent, ed. | Lent Publications | 2006
The Good, The Bad, and The Bawdy: On the Ethics of Typography” (essay)
Journal of Mass Media Ethics, Vol. 17, No. 1 | Paul Lester, ed. | Lawrence Erlbaum Associates | 2005
PUBLISHED DESIGN WORK
Type in Motion | Jeff Bellantoni and Matt Woolman, eds. | Thames and Hudson | 1998
Digital Type | Stephen Knapp, ed. | Rockport Publishers | 1997
Typography Now 2 | Rick Poynor, ed. | Booth-Clibborn Editions | 1996