type & image

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Spring 2022
Teaching Assistant Professor

This studio extends typographic study with representational strategies for image reproduction technology. Students engage in practices for incorporating existing and created imagery into typographic systems.

Students completed four mini projects (1 week/project) and three main projects (3-4 week/project) exploring image production, printing production, typographic systems, augmented reality, and virtual reality.

Computational Writing and Risographs

Students used computational writing methods to create absurd stories inspired by an assigned image. Individual stories were grouped together to create exquisite corpses. Students produced original imagery and printed the final product on the risograph.

Panoform

Students told stories about themselves to introduce themselves to the class – who are you? Where are you from? Who are you? These visual narratives were presented through Panoform, a free platform where users convert their drawings to 360 images that can be experienced in VR.

Artivive

Drawing inspiration from Jenny Holzer’s Truisms, students created posters about their chosen truism. Students created one version to be depicted on a flat, poster-size printed document. The second version included animated type, displayed when the flat poster was scanned by the augmented reality app, Artivive.