Selection of Courses Taught
Design Fundamentals
Interactive Design
Drawing
Web Design I, II, and III
Protest & Resistance in Design
Design Ethics and Social Impact
SEO Techniques
Advertising Design
Work Samples
Typography
Typographic Quote Posters
Stop Motion Animations
During the pandemic, I found that stop motion animations were a wonderful way to get students excited about sequential art. I continue to find the students produce wonderful work!
Brunetti Method Comics
I have found that priming students to sequential art through the use of the Brunetti method of cartooning is a huge boost!Protest Posters through Consensus
Accordion Books
I use this as a means to start the conversation about narrative, leading to storyboards, animation, and more!Web Design to Save the World
Using altruistic urges, students did research, designed apps, and built prototypes they could then take out into the world to build.
Illustration
Drawing I
Color Theory Through Lived Experience
I developed a lesson during Covid, where in order to get people to understand the incredibly kind of aesthetic yet dry topic of color theory, I worked in the idea of a personal tartan – I had people take colored paper, whether they found or colored by their own cheap watercolor that they could get safely at a drugstore while in quarantine and then we've then use a memory, a dear memory. They would then dissect that dear memory into a series of colors, determine the proportions in which those colors should appear, and then slice those papers into thin strips and weave a personal tartan.
Once we were able to reunite, I realized I could bring my pasta cutter press, and use the pasta cutter itself to do the slicing! This was a phenomenal step forward for a lot of students who had not felt they had skills in this area. They suddenly realize how on the one hand color theory is all about the subjective, and it welcomed them into becoming color theorists on the other hand they had to deal with what worked and what did didn't in the final product as as a visual conceit. This was an absolutely perfect melting for me of bringing the personal into engaged, competent task completion.