With students, co-taught with Lisa Wagner, Type + Authorship
Each term the students enrolled make a whole themed publication: writing, image-making, editing, design, and distribution. I co-taught for six or seven publications total, and each was completely different. Below is one example, chosen because I have a good electronic copy and not because I have favorites.
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As student, Surface Design 1
I’ve been obsessed forever. In fall of 2022, I decided to do something about it. Many thanks to ArtCenter faculty Debra Valencia, an excellent instructor.
Click on any image below to view each complete collection in portfolio form.
With students, Zine Workshop - Curation
This zine-making workshop, held in the Art Center College of Design library on two Saturdays in November 2014, was the first in a series made possible by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The workshops were designed by Liaison Librarian and Outreach Coordinator Simone Fujita, with participating faculty, to "test innovative, new ways that the Millennial generation can become deeply engaged in making activities within the context of an academic library."
My workshop series promoted zines as a site for curation, where the maker can explore a theme of their own interest not just by reproducing their own work, but by collecting material from multiple contributors and presenting it in thoughtful combination. These kinds of zines require critical and editorial thinking to compose, inspire those the maker asks to submit, and promote the idea of creative community.
Poster design by Art Center student Leo Santamaria. Other images are layout pasteups from, and the cover of, the zine I made out of all the material generated in the first of two workshops; students are credited directly on their work in the layout.
With students, Food TDS - Process + Evidence
Softcover book, 102 pages. A publication collecting and organizing the work and process of students and faculty in the first convening of the Food Transdisciplinary course at Art Center College of Design (taught by Jason Holley, Lisa Wagner Holley, and myself).
This book originated from an end-of-term project proposed and developed by student Danny Park. With the help of Art Center Provost Fred Fehlau, Lisa as Creative Director and I as Managing Editor organized an extra seven-week course we called "Evidence Book Studio" during which we worked with four exceptional students to polish Danny's original project into this form. Completed January 2013.
Second image: Our first-day brainstorm as reproduced in the book. Fifth image, left-hand page: The backs of a few of the recipe cards each student wrote, representing something about their research path during the term, for Kristina Marrero's final project. Handwritten type by Jane Lee. Student work and other image sources credited on layouts. All involved in the Food Transdisciplinary course itself—including those we visited or worked with outside of school—and the Evidence Book studio listed on the final page in this gallery.
Find the whole book in pdf here.
As student, Design 1:
In Fall term 2015, I took the foundation-level class at Art Center that Illustration, Graphic Design, Interaction Design, and Advertising students take. Jon Nguyen was my instructor.
1–5: Design principle studies from "eight." All eight shapes must be used in all layouts, no overlapping. One shape of our choosing was a "wild card" and could be changed in any way as long as all of it was used.
6–11: Photos for "path," of a historically significant place in Los Angeles (I chose the Bradbury Building), demonstrating design principles from earlier in the term. View/download (download recommended so you can view in spreads) the complete book: part 1 and part 2.
12–end: Pages from "swatch." Printed book, 5 x 17 inches, 56 pages. View/download the complete book here.
With students, The Graphic Novel - Final Comics Projects 2010–2013
Softcover book, 94 pages. A collection of the strongest responses to the final comics project in my Art Center College of Design academic course "The Graphic Novel." Book designed by Art Center alum (then student) Stanley Wong.
Cover image credits, front cover left to right, top to bottom (email me for student/alum contact information and portfolio site addresses): Harrison Freeman, Sunmin Inn, Garrett Lee, Erin Rea, Jason Boyer, Charles Wang, Ryan Cho, Zander Bice, Danny Miller, Gabriella Rossetti, Christine Truffles Noh, Jesse Tise, Juliette Toma, Stanley Wong, Nike Dizon, Jennifer Cho, Virginia Giordano, Lauren Levering, Josey Tsao.
With students, Wash Magazine
Twice a year for five years, at Otis College of Art and Design, I taught a class called "Wash Magazine." About ten students would together: pick a theme, solicit school-wide contributions, act as editors and choose which to include, develop a page design that worked with varied submissions, conceive the book design with a very limited budget so that it fit the theme, gather all needed materials, hand-construct 400 copies, and give them away at a term-end party.
Shown here: Superultraextraordinary, Winter 2003, Gocco-printed cover; Recess, Spring 2003, cover of the box and three of the seven mini-zines inside; The Fireside, Spring 2004, including bound-in bookmark; Bang, Fall 2004, screen-printed dust jacket and a Gocco-printed fabric patch included with every issue; Mechanic/Organic, Spring 2005, with a two-sided accordion-folded screen-printed cover, each half of the book bound on a separate side of the middle fold; Broke, Fall 2005, and the bag it was sewn into; Los Angeles, Spring 2005, with alternate covers, Thomas Guide endpapers, hand-numbering, and a fold-out map covered in student doodles tucked into a pocket inside the back cover.
