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
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
Making History in Wood Printing Type
Erin Beckloff
Assistant Professor
by Scott Moore, Industrial Technology BS ‘77, MA ’80 One of the goals of Moore Wood Type has always been to cut wood type based on historical sources such as type […]
Making History in Wood Printing Type
Silkscreen Away AIGA
Steve Garst led Miami’s AIGA student group in a silkscreening workshop on Saturday, December 1st. Students learned how to apply photo emulsion in the dark room, place transparencies on an […]
Silkscreen Away AIGA
Out of My Hands Baltimore
To launch AIGA Baltimore’s Design Week 2012, Assistant Professsor Helen Armstrong and Zvezdana Stojmirovic led a participatory workshop. Our goal: to co-create a unique “Baltimore” alphabet. Working assembly-line style, each […]
Out of My Hands Baltimore
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
Participate, UT Knoxville
Last week Miami design professor Helen Armstrong traveled to Knoxville, Tennessee, to lead a participatory design workshop with University of Tennessee juniors. The assignment: Find 20 people who have something […]
Participate, UT Knoxville
Design for Social Change—Miami seniors are ready to go. Thanks, Andrew
Designer and writer Andrew Shea took a break from The Big Apple to lead our design seniors in a Design for Social Change workshop. The workshop grounded students in this […]
Design for Social Change—Miami seniors are ready to go. Thanks, Andrew
One Weekend, Intense Teamwork, Rapid Design Prototyping.
Last weekend, graphic design students Jinghang Huang and Kara Isabella spent 48 hours turning ideas into objects. They participated in a modular design workshop here at Miami led by visiting […]
One Weekend, Intense Teamwork, Rapid Design Prototyping.
