Aug 2017 to present
Design Center (S305) - Fine Arts Department, Indiana University Southeast (IUS), New Albany, Indiana, USA
Design Center is a student-staffed graphic design internship program dedicated to in-house design projects for Indiana University Southeast schools and programs as-well-as regional nonprofits. It is the objective of the Design Center to equip students with real-world experience in dealing with client-focused graphic design. This is accomplished through faculty mentoring, direct client interactions, and collaborative team projects.Click here for examples of student's work.
Aug 2015 to present
Graphic Design I (S250) - Fine Arts Department, Indiana University Southeast (IUS), New Albany, Indiana, USA
Graphic Design 1 is an introductory course that is primarily concerned with creating and managing visual forms (combined with type) to communicate meaning and values to influence an intended audience across a wide variety of media in informative, systematic, symbolic, intuitive, and sometimes provocative ways. Graphic design is an expansive field. In general, designers persuade their audiences' sensory of visuality, tactility, gustatory and olfactory. The course is about 'experiencing' the broad scope of graphic design through developing appreciations for design as a process, supplemented by lectures, class discussions, readings, and critiques to communicate meaning and values. Through conceptualizing, visualizing, applying and evaluating graphic design as, you will be involved with assignments which require you to take what you have learned and apply it to examine a specific area of interest.Click here for examples of student's work.
Aug 2015 to Apr 2017
Typography I (S351) - Fine Arts Department, Indiana University Southeast (IUS), New Albany, Indiana, USA
the course, S351 Graphic Design 2 (Typography) is about developing the ability to skillfully use typography in graphic design. To do so, fundamental principles relating to typography are explored through a series of progressively complex in-class exercises and assignments, supported by research, readings, ideation, criticism, peer learning, and computer-assisted learning (YouTube and other online tutorials such as Lynda.com). Please be reminded that this is not a software-oriented class as you will be partly responsible for teaching yourselves through learning by doing. This course examines expressive possibilities of typography within the field of graphic design, specifically the application of typography in business communications, promotional and branding purposes. This course will prepare you for design thinking and methods related to typography as tool for visual problem solving via computer and hands-on methods. Click here for student work.
Aug 2015 to present
BFA Graphic Design (S452) - IUS, New Albany, Indiana, USA
This is an advanced and directed graphic design course designed to allow BFA Graphic Design students the opportunity to develop their personal work. Individual goals and directions are established with the intention of preparing the students with portfolio materials. The flexibility to pursue and develop directed artistic and professional portfolios for their intellectual and creative processes are supported by one-on-one and peer critique. Students will proactively manage their own schedule and maintain regular contacts with the professor during the course of study. Due to the advanced nature of the course, a collaborative effort with prospective clients are encouraged to facilitate meaningful and real solutions to design issues. Students have the flexibility to combine studies from their foundation as well as those within the fine arts to achieve the objectives in keeping with specific goals of the assignments. Relevant tools and technologies are not limited to drawing, printmaking, and photography but also time-based and interactive media (film, video, and computer multimedia).More in due time.
Jan 2012 - Jun 2015
Creative Visual Experience and Design - Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information (WKWSCI), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore
This course is both a reflective and hands-on approach to design which recognizes that there is always an experience created by a product, service, event, environment and people. It seeks to orient students to the full spectrum of human experience through which the different dimensions of our environment affect us through sensorial, retail, technological, style, travel and cultural experiences. Click here for samples of students' creations.
Aug 2007 - Jun 2015
Graphic Communication - WKWSCI, NTU, Singapore
Designed and tweaked over the years, the course is designed to respond to students' needs for basic knowledge in applying design elements of communication into creative strategies. This course is an introduction to the necessary elements and principles of design which prepares students through a set of specially designed tutorials and projects which combine to form a methodology in teaching conceptual skills associated with compositional skills necessary to execute a variety of assignments related to promotional communications. Click here for samples of students' creations from Aug - Dec 2011 semester.
Course proposed and approved for course delivery in 2014:
Advanced Graphic Communication - WKWSCI, NTU, Singapore
Advanced Graphic Communication requires a pre-requisite of Graphic Communication as students are prepared to refine their creative, critical, communication and technical skills, and solve increasingly complex design problems through the application of skills and knowledge developed through integrated studies. This includes conceptualizing and realizing projects associated with art direction and creative strategies through various visual techniques and compositional skills that use the combination of text and images in a variety of media formats.
Aug - Dec 2011
Communication Campaigns - WKWSCI, NTU, Singapore
The "hands-on" course is designed to provide the students with the creation, production, performance, and dissemination of various forms of publicity to support a range of comprehensive communication campaigns through the gamut of both traditional and 'new,' non-traditional forms of marketing such as experiential, online, events, guerrilla and ambient marketing.Click here group project list.
Jan 2006 - 2013
Newsletter Practicum - WKWSCI, NTU, Singapore
The practicum allows students to learn about conceptualizing, designing, writing, illustrating, producing and publishing the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information's newsletter, ConnexSCIons. Besides the technical skills needed in publication production, the course also considers some of the challenges and difficulties in producing organizational promotional materials. Click here for samples of students' creations from Aug - Dec 2011 semester.
Aug 2007 - Nov 2007
Advertising Creativity and Copywriting - WKWSCI, NTU, Singapore
The course prepares students for creative processes such as designing advertisements for print, broadcast, outdoor, and other media with focus on how to develop creative thinking skills, copywriting, design, layout, and production methods.Click here for samples of students' creations.
Jan 2014
Strategic Visual Communication WKWSCI, NTU, Singapore
This is a Master's level course which combines lectures and interdisciplinary and applied explorations of projects involving visuality and interactivity in today's business world. Positioned for practitioners in one or more industries, particularly those in the field of branding, design, advertising, marketing, media and other strategic designs to understand and develop critical thinking about the forces behind visuality as a communicative practice, each graduate student chooses the direction to pursue relevant to their profession. The assignments are open-ended and committed to exploring ideas that lead to conceptual and practical solutions.
Aug 2006 - Mar 2007
Graphic Design I & II - School of Art, Design and Media (ADM), NTU, Singapore
This studio-based course provides a broad introduction to the main areas of graphic design namely, publication, promotion, information and corporate identity design. Click here for samples of students' creations from Graphic Design II.
Aug 2005 - Mar 2007
2D Design and Color Workshop I & II - ADM, NTU, Singapore
A studio-based course where explorations of concept development and problem-solving techniques are the foci. Understanding design concepts, attaining practical understanding color theory and usage are explored through direct observation, demonstrations and exercises. Students also research the significance and meaning of various colors in different cultures.Click here for samples of students' creations.
Summer of 2003
Corporate Design - Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD), Savannah, Georgia, USA
This course involves designing a corporate logo that is then implemented in marketing packaging, architecture, stationery, advertising, forms and miscellaneous projects.
Summer of 2003
Vector Graphics for Designer - SCAD, Savannah, Georgia, USA
This course covers the most popular illustration program in use today by graphic designers. The potential applications for this program are explore, from fine-tuned illustrations to successful typographic studies. Emphasis is placed on both technical and artistic mastery.
Winter of 2002 quarter - Summer of 2003 Desktop Publishing- SCAD, Savannah, Georgia, USA
This course is designed to help students gain skills for use in other courses to assist them in the contemporary marketplace. Topics include word processing, varied graphic programs, illustrative techniques, and page layout with Microsoft Word, Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Freehand, and Adobe InDesign.
Spring of 2001 - Spring of 2002
Public & Social Service Design - School of Art, Texas Tech University (SOA, TTU), Lubbock, Texas, USA
A studio-based class with emphasis on the role of the designer in the community as active participant in our culture, to raise public awareness, and to cultivate public awareness. The course also stresses the importance of developing teamwork, communication, and interpersonal skills. The purpose is to gain an awareness of topical issues within our community and to investigate issues associated with social-responsibility as a contemporary designer in today's society.Click here for samples of students' creations.
Summer of 2000
Computer Design Methods - SOA, TTU, Lubbock, Texas, USA
Technical aspects of page-layout, vector drawing, file integration and digital production introduced including digital peripherals as they relate to image capture.
Spring of 1999
Graphic Design 2 - Southern Arkansas University (SAU), Magnolia, Arkansas, USA
Further problem solving in the area of graphic communications. Students will concentrate on achieving sophisticated design solutions for hypothetical and actual clients. Completed solutions should be for portfolio building as well as formal analysis and critique. Click here for samples of students' creations.
Spring of 1999
Portfolio Preparation - SAU, Magnolia, Arkansas, USA
Preparation of a portfolio of graphic design solutions or studio works that demonstrate the student's professional abilities and strengths which includes resume preparation along with personal identity/logo. Job search and interviewing. Studio majors will prepare slide portfolios for galleries, exhibits, and potential graduate school review.
Fall of 1998
Computer Graphics - SAU, Magnolia, Arkansas, USA
Students are introduced to the multiple uses of the computer as a design tool for the creation of packaging, poster, newsletter, fine art and any other potential publication created from the desktop. Problems involving graphics, typography, and layout will be explored through hands-on experience and lecture. The objective of the course is to acquaint students with the fundamentals of graphic design using industry standard image editing, draw and layout computer programs.
Spring of 1999 & Fall of1998
Introduction to Fine Arts: Art - SAU, Magnolia, Arkansas, USA
Designed for general students, the course attempts to present art as part of our Western heritage that includes basic terms and the characteristics of styles and periods. Students will be acquainted with art history, the critical process, and the production of art to achieve a well-balanced appreciation for art and how it relates to the development of western culture.
Fall of 1998
Special Topics in Art - SAU, Magnolia, Arkansas, USA
Open to art majors or minors who wish to pursue studio or design problems in depth. The student will be given a particular topic of exploration and may choose from any combination of the following media: ceramics, drawing, graphic design, painting, printmaking, art history, or sculpture.
Fall of 1997 & Spring of 1998
Materials, Tools, and Comping (Mock-up) Techniques - The Academy of Art University, San Francisco, California, USA
This course familiarizes students with the design process and the appropriate materials, tools, techniques, and services available for each stage of a project. It is a skill rather than a concept-oriented course to enable students to realize their ideas with greater facilities.
