Teaching Interests
Generosity as Art
History of Design + Social Change
Typography
Visual + Cultural Criticism
History of Advertising
Senior Thesis Exhibition
Coordination of Field Internship Programs

Developed Interdisciplinary curricula for USF / First Year Seminar “Visualizing San Francisco: Exploring Signage & Public Spaces”

Coordination of public art projects, performance art and site specific installation.

Technical + Digital Tools
Knowledge in both Mac and PC environments.

Motion graphics: stop motion animation, typography in motion, title credits for film, interactive mapping, interactive design for the web. [click to view interactive portfolio .pdf]

Open Source Design Applications: Inkscape, Gimp, OpenOffice, Kompozer

Adobe CS6 [Bridge, In-Design, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat, Fireworks, Flash, Dreamweaver, After Effects, Media Encoder, Premiere]

Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro / DVD authoring / publishing / replication

General Understanding of HTML, CSS, Javascript, Action Script, CMS / Content Management Systems: Joomla, Drupal

Letterpress, screen printing and lithography

3D design, sculpture, ceramics, painting, drawing

Traditional and digital photography

Film, digital audio and video production

Electronic pre-press and print production

New media installation, interactive graphics and visual effects design for theater and performance

Social Media Publishing: Blogger, Wordpress, Blogspot, Tumblr

Pod-casting, internet radio and television programming

 

Resources + Print Samples
Extensive archive of unique and historically significant printed materials and found imagery

Encourage use of recycled materials and principles of “re-use, reduce, and re-purpose”