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 2015Students experience working in one of the most innovative areas of the United States for Spring 2015.
Miami Graphic Design Majors Intern in San FranciscoExploring the future of interaction design as the lines between interface and development get blurred.
Translating InteractionsParticipatory Design, over the last 40 years, has begun to infiltrate mainstream commerce and culture in the US. Increasingly our always-on, instant feedback society of users demands a voice in […]
WordBuild: A Workshop in Participatory DesignThere are few places more competitive than the design world of New York City. Miami design alums have consistently been successful at showing up on the doorstep of the big […]
If You Can Make It There, You Can Make It Anywhere.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 SpringJohn 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 FosterWhat 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 StudioAs designers, it’s easy to slip into the habit of designing for ourselves. Movies, packaging, Pinterest, and our own excitement to create sometimes overrides the true focus of any design […]
Design is About People, Not DesignOn September 11th the AIGA Miami U. student chapter hosted a welcome party for the new Class of 2017 designers complete with Typeface Twister, Pin the Serif on the A, […]
AIGA Welcome Back PartyThe 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 ProgramEach 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
