Welcome to Visiting Designers for Spring 2015
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:
Welcome to Visiting Designers for Spring 2015
Translating Interactions
Dennis Cheatham
Assistant Professor of Communication Design
Exploring the future of interaction design as the lines between interface and development get blurred.
Translating Interactions
Designer Laurie Haycock Makela to Visit Miami Design This Spring
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 […]
Designer Laurie Haycock Makela to Visit Miami Design This Spring
An Experience Design Workshop with John Foster
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 […]
An Experience Design Workshop with John Foster
Modularity Permeates the Miami Design Studio
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 […]
Modularity Permeates the Miami Design Studio
Designer Aggie Toppins Visits Miami’s Design Program
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 […]
Designer Aggie Toppins Visits Miami’s Design Program
Visiting Designers 2014
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, […]
Visiting Designers 2014
Visiting Designers 2014: Victor Saad, Liz Gilmore and Mike Weikert
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 […]
Visiting Designers 2014: Victor Saad, Liz Gilmore and Mike Weikert
Empathy Building with Victor Saad
Dennis Cheatham
Assistant Professor of Communication Design
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 […]
Empathy Building with Victor Saad
Brian French, Paper Prince
Erin Beckloff
Assistant Professor
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 […]
Brian French, Paper Prince
Dawn Hancock from Firebelly Design
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 […]
Dawn Hancock from Firebelly Design
Liz Rose Chmela Works with Seniors as Midterm Senior Critic
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 […]
Liz Rose Chmela Works with Seniors as Midterm Senior Critic
