Teaching Interests
Generosity as Art
History of Design + Social Change
Typography
Visual + Cultural Criticism
History of Advertising
Senior Thesis Exhibition
Coordination of Field Internship Programs
Developed Interdisciplinary curricula for USF / First Year Seminar “Visualizing San Francisco: Exploring Signage & Public Spaces”
Coordination of public art projects, performance art and site specific installation.
Technical + Digital Tools
Knowledge in both Mac and PC environments.
Motion graphics: stop motion animation, typography in motion, title credits for film, interactive mapping, interactive design for the web. [click to view interactive portfolio .pdf]
Open Source Design Applications: Inkscape, Gimp, OpenOffice, Kompozer
Adobe CS6 [Bridge, In-Design, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat, Fireworks, Flash, Dreamweaver, After Effects, Media Encoder, Premiere]
Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro / DVD authoring / publishing / replication
General Understanding of HTML, CSS, Javascript, Action Script, CMS / Content Management Systems: Joomla, Drupal
Letterpress, screen printing and lithography
3D design, sculpture, ceramics, painting, drawing
Traditional and digital photography
Film, digital audio and video production
Electronic pre-press and print production
New media installation, interactive graphics and visual effects design for theater and performance
Social Media Publishing: Blogger, Wordpress, Blogspot, Tumblr
Pod-casting, internet radio and television programming
Resources + Print Samples
Extensive archive of unique and historically significant printed materials and found imagery
Encourage use of recycled materials and principles of “re-use, reduce, and re-purpose”