Back from Sunny Phoenix. Pivot: the 2011 AIGA National Conference
The AIGA Pivot Conference in Phoenix included a bevy of inspiring designers: Katie Salen, Chip Kidd, Terry Irwin, Karl Heiselman, Allan Chochinov and many, many more. Here are some memorable […]
Back from Sunny Phoenix. Pivot: the 2011 AIGA National Conference
Year of the Arts & Design for Social Impact
Peg Faimon
Chair and Professor
Academic year 2011-12 has been officially named the “Year of the Arts” at Miami University. As described on the School of Fine Arts website: “Each and every year, the arts […]
Year of the Arts & Design for Social Impact
Acton Lake Watershed Research Center: a multidisciplinary design project
Third year graphic design students enrolled in the Three Dimensional Design Studio had a unique opportunity this year (2011) to participate in the designing phases of an NSF Grant proposal […]
Acton Lake Watershed Research Center: a multidisciplinary design project
Mass Customization at Miami
Publications are traditionally mass produced. Each copy is exactly like the next. Added value comes into play only when an author signs a copy, thereby making it unique. Recently, designers […]
Mass Customization at Miami
Graphic Design Senior Thesis Exhibition 2011
Each spring, Miami design seniors spend their fall semester developing portfolios and working out their thesis concept. Once spring comes around, it’s all thesis, all the time. Over the course […]
Graphic Design Senior Thesis Exhibition 2011
College Classes That Impact the Outside World
Highwire Brand Studio was highlighted in US News & World Report on April 18, 2011. The article describes the course, a collaboration between the graphic design program and the marketing […]
College Classes That Impact the Outside World
Linked: An Experiment in Co-Creation
35 MICA students in Baltimore, MD / 22 Miami students in Oxford, Ohio—our project began with this question: How can 57 students in three sections from two very different institutions […]
Linked: An Experiment in Co-Creation