Each year, the Miami Graphic Design Program brings in thought-provoking designers to share their experiences, critique student work and lead intensive workshops. Here’s this spring’s line-up:
IT’S NOT BRAIN SURGERY. More performance than lecture, Makela will tell the true, tragic-comic story about her second brain hemorrhage which occurred while she was teaching experience design in Sweden–she focuses […]
John Foster visited the xd:mfa studio on Friday to lead an iteration and prototyping workshop. Through the workshop, students learned to put the customer/user/student/citizen at the core of everything—a philosophy […]
What a fantastic weekend! Industrial designer Richard Elaver led the xd:mfa students in a weekend-long Modular Workshop. Students from Graphic Design, Architecture and Sculpture joined with the xd:mfa program to […]
The first visiting designer of the year, Aggie Toppins, got to know the Miami Graphic Design Juniors last weekend through a lecture/discussion about the culture of zines. As a follow-up to the lecture, Toppins led the […]
Each year, our BFA in Graphic Design and MFA in Experience Design come together to bring in thought-provoking designers to interact with our majors. These designers share their experiences through lectures, […]
Each year we invite professional designers to inspire and critique senior graphic design thesis work. Spring semester began with a visit from Victor Saad, writer of the Leap Year Project and the […]
Designing starts with listening. Whether a client is a multinational corporation or a sole-proprietorship, gaining insights into others’ needs through empathy can lead to the design of relevant and effective […]
French Paper Company’s Brian French, sixth-generation of the family-owned paper mill, stopped by to entertain and educate Miami U. graphic designers. He gave a presentation about the French history and […]
Last week Dawn Hancock from Firebelly Design visited Miami as our final design thesis critic of the semester. Hancock shared her own exemplary work in the area of  Design for Social […]
This week Miami Design alum Liz Rose Chmela of Made By We came to town as our midterm senior critic. A few words from Liz: “I had the wonderful opportunity […]
