Mug Match: A New Miami Graphic Design Tradition
This March the Miami Graphic Design Program launched a tradition: a unique custom studio mug for each of our majors. Graduate student Vanessa Graham made the hundred plus commissioned mugs. […]
Mug Match: A New Miami Graphic Design Tradition
Apply Now for the New Miami MFA in Experience Design
Here at Miami University, we are busy designing a studio space for our brand new MFA in Experience Design. Collaboratively offered by Graphic Design and Interactive Media Studies, this degree […]
Apply Now for the New Miami MFA in Experience Design
Graphic Designers: Join the Mad Scramble—Oxford Kinetics Festival 2013
Dust off your monster bike, get out your catapult, and suit up in your best mechanical sculpture. The 4th annual Oxford Kinetics Festival is coming to town Sunday, April 7, 12-4 […]
Graphic Designers: Join the Mad Scramble—Oxford Kinetics Festival 2013
Welcome Dennis Cheatham
This week, our program welcomes a guest to town. Dennis Cheatham, our new interactive professor, is visiting to critique senior projects and work on curriculum development with faculty. Dennis will […]
Welcome Dennis Cheatham
Erin Beckloff. We Have Some Questions.
Name? Erin Beckloff Role at Miami? Instructor of Graphic Design and manager of Curmudgeon Press Favorite typeface? Antique Tuscan No. 11 (wood type), Archer, Univers, Optima (esp. in metal type) I became […]
Erin Beckloff. We Have Some Questions.
AIGA Cincinnati Agency Crawl
On Friday, September 14th, thirty students from the Miami University student chapter of AIGA attended the AIGA Cincinnati Agency Crawl. The Agency Crawl is an annual event where AIGA members […]
AIGA Cincinnati Agency Crawl
Mechanic in Training
Erin Beckloff
Assistant Professor
One of the many historic items in the Miami Curmudgeon Press type shop is a Vandercook SP-20 printing press manufactured in 1968. Vandercooks were originally used to print a clean […]
Mechanic in Training
Tom Effler wins the Curry Distinguished Educator Award
Peg Faimon
Chair and Professor
Tom Effler, who is retiring on June 30, will receive the 2012 Crossan Hays Curry Distinguished Educator Award at the graduation ceremony on Sunday, May 6. This award is given […]
Tom Effler wins the Curry Distinguished Educator Award
Participate: Designing with User-Generated Content
It’s here. My new book, Participate: Designing with User-Generated Content, is now available (Princeton Architectural Press, 2011). The book’s companion website is participatorydesign.net This book, co-authored by MICA professor Zvezdana […]
Participate: Designing with User-Generated Content
Curmudgeon Press is Born
Walking into the Hand Media studio (aka. the letterpress shop) on the third floor of Hiestand, it might feel like you have stepped right into the past. Antique printing presses […]
Curmudgeon Press is Born
New Typefaces So You Can Hit The Ground Running
Do you crave new typefaces? Do the sites of Martin Majoor, Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones make your mouth water? Do you peruse House Industries in your free time? Well, […]
New Typefaces So You Can Hit The Ground Running