Student organizations can and should be more than a “club.” The term club suggests that it is just a bunch of friends who get together to have fun and talk about other…
Creativity
The Collective Part 1: The Importance of Student Organizations
A couple of buzz words that we hear a lot of today in academia are community, culture, and collaboration. While the meaning and idea of those words are incredible to find in…
Unconventional Play
What does it mean to be unconventional? The definition means to simply not conform to what is generally done or believed. In design nearly every student and young design professional attempts to…
Summer
I had a colleague who used to say that the two best things about teaching were Summer and Christmas. I just wrapped up my 10th year in the profession and I’ve learned that…
Times they are a changin’
The pandemic did for most of us what had been needing to be done for quite some time. It shuffled our lives by shaking the snow globes that imprisoned us. It brought…
Presidential
In academia there are ranks or positions for just about everything. There are major divisions of faculty and staff, and each division comes with a million different subdivisions and many different ranks…
2020: Retrospective
2020, Twenty-Twenty, Two Zero Two Zero, Dumpster Fire. There are a lot of different names for the previous year. I could write a book about it, and I’m fairly certain that there…
New and Improved.
Welcome back everyone! What a wild year right? I apologize for not writing more posts during this time, but honestly it has been really hard to find time to with the difficulties…
Through the Eyes of a Nice Guy
Drawing has been many things for me throughout my life. As a kid I used my drawing skills as an attempt to standout, and to impress girls on the bus and in…
Unconventional Illustrating: Part 2
There is a lot of power in a photograph. Native Americans and other early civilizations who were exposed to the medium recognized this and were so terrified by it, that many of…