Graphic Design at Illinois

Beloved Graphic Design Professor Alvin Doyle Moore
(1931-2013) has been inducted into The Guild.

The Guild is a group of noteworthy alumni, faculty, and friends of the College of Fine & Applied Arts at Illinois who are recognized posthumously for their distinguished contributions. We celebrate those from the past who were integral to shaping the college and commemorate the far-reaching impact of their ingenuity, passion, and advocacy, which continue to inspire and echo through our students today.



https://faa.illinois.edu/alumni-friends/faa-legacy-awards/the-guild/alvin-doyle-moore/

Giant Congratulations Ali Ibanez, Graphic Design (2024) for competing in the Paris Paralympics on the women’s basketball team. Go Ali!

Ali Ibanez Learn more about Ali Ibanez's accomplishments, career highlights, and biography

GD faculty Molly Briggs in the news!

In 2024 Molly Briggs co-founded the Panoramic & Immersive Media Studies (PIMS) Yearbook, a digital & hardcover book series published by De Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston. She serves as executive editor alongside Thorsten Logge (Universität Hamburg) and Nicholas C. Lowe (SAIC).

The PIMS Yearbook surveys the historical and contemporary landscape of panoramic and immersive media. Together, the concepts of panorama and immersion have catalyzed time- and space-bending strategies for creating, experiencing, and transforming culture, ideas, and built social space across the arc of human history.

Volumes 1–3 (2024–2026) will be published open access (OA) and in full color. Volume 1 (2024) is in production and will be released in December 2024 with 380 pages and 190 figures. The call for contributions to v.2 (2025) is live and closes 7 October 2024.

Professor Eric Benson was recently featured in Print Magazine for his podcast Climify

https://www.printmag.com/environment/design-climate-action-changing-the-system-one-podcast-at-a-time/

Design & Climate Action: Changing the System One Podcast at a Time Climify, the award-winning podcast by Climate Designers, is in its fourth season. Meet impact leaders who are working at the intersection of climate action and design.

Welcome back to school lllini! Let's make it radic-IIl!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WroMq_8vzWk

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Chancellor's Totally Rad Welcome Back Welcome back Illini! Have a totally rad start to the 2024 fall semester!

GD BFA alum Elaine Palutsis will be speaking at PaperSpecs LIVE in Chicago – the largest paper-and-print-focused design conference!! She'll be speaking this year along with other inspiring designers and the day will be filled with how-to workshops, print samples and so much more!

✔ Register NOW - Early Bird discount ends THIS Friday, August 16th!
✔ Mark your calendar for September 26th, 2024
✔ Be there early, so you don’t miss a thing

https://www.paperspecs.com/livechicago2024-elainepalutsis/

This fall, we welcome three new GD/DRI faculty to the mix!

A big hearty welcome to:
Juan de la Rosa
Katie Blazek
Joshua Pridemore


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Congrats to alumna Kenneth Carls (BFA '72 Graphic Design) for a College of Fine & Applied Arts at Illinois Legacy Award!


Ken Carls earned a BFA in Graphic Design at UIUC and an MA in Graphic Design from Kent State University. He began his career as a packaging designer in Chicago before taking a teaching position in the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. During his tenure at UIUC, he headed the Graphic Design program, and before ending his academic career in 2005, he served three years as the school’s interim director and one year as associate director. As a resident in the arts community of Saugatuck-Douglas, Michigan, Carls has been deeply committed to the advancement of that area’s arts and cultural not-for-profits. He has served on the boards of Saugatuck Center for the Arts, the Saugatuck-Douglas Historical Society, and Ox-Bow, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s century-old summer art school on the shore of Lake Michigan at Saugatuck. He has served as grants reviewer for the Ohio Arts Council and has juried exhibitions for the Holland Area Arts Council and the Department of Art, Art History, and Design at Michigan State University. Although Carls’s professional focus throughout his career was graphic design, since leaving academia he has concentrated on art making. Several extended periods of living in Europe and the continuing urban/rural contrasts created by his Illinois farm upbringing and maintaining residences in both Southern California and West Michigan have shaped his unique perspective and vision—and his varied artistic expression. Carls’s work has been shown in exhibitions in Illinois, Michigan, and California, and he has received numerous awards. Upon his retirement, he established the Kenneth R. Carls Endowment which will in perpetuity provide support for international travel for undergraduate students in the School of Art and Design.

Congrats to Taekyeom Lee (MFA '14 Graphic Design) for winning the College of Fine & Applied Arts at Illinois Emerging Legacy Award!

Lee Taekyeom

Taekyeom Lee is an interdisciplinary graphic designer and educator known for integrating emerging technologies into visual communication. He is an Associate Professor of Graphic Design at Indiana University Bloomington, holding an MFA from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a bachelor's degree from Keimyung University in South Korea. Lee’s work in Tangible Graphic Design revolutionizes design education by showcasing how digital fabrication and alternative materials transform design practices. During his MFA studies, he turned vision-related health challenges into creative opportunities, leading to projects using materials like 3D printable plastics, metals, and ceramics. His DIY ceramic 3D printer project went viral, inspiring many to explore digital fabrication. Lee has taught at institutions such as Appalachian State University, Illinois State University, Iowa State University, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has delivered talks and workshops globally and presented at major conferences, including AIGA, SEGD, CAA, UCDA, Design Incubation, ISEA, IEEE VIS, ATypI, TypeCon, and NCECA. His work earned accolades like a judge's choice award and honorable mention from the STA 100 in 2022, and the Scholarship: Creative Work Award from Design Incubation in 2022. Dedicated to inclusive design education, Lee's experiences as a first-generation college student and foreign-born designer drive his commitment to diversity. His research project "Graphic Design for Accessibility" focuses on improving experiences for individuals with low vision and vision impairments and is integrated into his teaching to promote responsible innovation. Professor Taekyeom Lee's research, resilience, and dedication to expanding graphic design boundaries make him a leading figure, continually inspiring the next generation of designers and educators.

GD Alumna Bindrim was on the is Also a Band Podcast to promote your new solo album! Please give her a listen!

EP131 - Brittany Bindrim - "Hearsay" | Champaign Is Also A Band Sven Zooms with Brittany Bindrim (She/Her) about her song "Hearsay" off of the album "Velella Velella." Photo Credit: Emily Gualdoni

"Looking back to move forward." UIUC GD alumna John Jennings helped describe his work in on CBS This Morning
Show.

College of Fine & Applied Arts at Illinois School of Art + Design at Illinois

Afrofuturism: Turning pain into possibility Correspondent Nancy Giles visits art exhibitions, in Washington, D.C., and New York City, that explore the possibilities of a future as distilled through the...

Graphic Design Chair Eric Benson will be a key panelist today on the Developing Life Podcast hosted by LinkedIn Live!

Eric and the other guests will be discussing the foundational skills and goals that unify climate-conscious professionals and how and human creativity converge to produce solutions with real-time applications.

Sign up for free!
https://www.linkedin.com/events/climate-connection-andcreativit7205931365291233282/comments/

School of Art + Design at Illinois

Branding the Afrofuture by GD Professor Stacey Robinson

Branding the AfroFuture Branding the AfroFuture is a multimodal art exploration into the multimedia aesthetics of my Black futuristic imaginings. It is visualized through a myriad o...

Congrats to MFA DRI alumna Holly Strickland for her new position as an Assitant Professor of Graphic Design!

https://art.illinois.edu/people/alumni/meet-alumni/holly-strickland/

If you cannot make our 2024 BFA exhibition this weekend, here is the work of our amazing GD students!

https://bfa.art.illinois.edu/2024/major/graphic-design/



School of Art + Design at Illinois

Graphic Design – Illinois BFA 2024 Exhibition The School of Art + Design celebrates the creative accomplishments of the class of 2020. Our graduating seniors have successfully navigated their way through the various curricula in our school, exploring visual literacy, design thinking, critical inquiry, and material problem solving.

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign made the list as #4 "public ivy" by Forbes

Exclusive: Employers Are Souring On Ivy League Grads, While These 20 “New Ivies” Ascend You’re not imagining things: The Ivy League is forfeiting its standing as America’s producer of great talent. Here are the schools producing the hard-working high achievers that employers crave.

Two of our great faculty Jena Marble and Angelica Sibrian are Design Writing Fellows at Writing Space this May! Congratulations!

Design Writing Fellowship — Writing Space Maggie Taft, Co-Director of Fellowship Programming and Director of the Reviews GroupAaris Sherin (Professor of Graphic Design, St. John’s University), Co-Director of Fellowship Programming and Workshop Facilitator Liat Berdugo (Associate Professor, University of San Francisco), Director of the Art...

A big thank you to GD USA Magazine, our students, staff, and faculty that helped us be listed as one of the top design schools in America!

https://gdusa.com/features/top-design-schools/2024-gdusa-top-design-schools

School of Art + Design at Illinois

2024 GDUSA Top Design Schools GDUSA presents our favorite institutions or programs that prepare students to work in professional graphic design. The mix is unique: it includes venerable institutions dedicated to art and design;…

Call for a workshop with José Arnaud-Bello

Lupe Toys



Date and Time: Wednesday, April 24, 2024, 5:00pm–8:00pm

Location: Siebel Center for Design, Classroom 1000

Interested participants, please fill out this Google form to confirm your participation in this workshop.

https://docs.google.com/forms/u/2/d/e/1FAIpQLScvUzdKIEl_qENvL4G7CkWQIlnU0w1iiUAMEn_BGG_rvgw20A/viewform?usp=send_form

Lecture event with José Arnaud-Bello
Date and Time: Thursday, April 25, 2024, 5:30pm–6:30pm
Location: Wohlers Hall, Room 141.

GD faculty Stacey Robinson helped create the art for the exciting new Juneteenth bus for the Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District.

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https://www.wandtv.com/news/champaign-mass-transit-district-unveils-juneteenth-themed-sprinter/article_1260cef2-fa04-11ee-b132-d797de9c4be3.html?fbclid=IwAR1o59MHSMbKNmsQ5t76XYUcYA53vsnB07m4bBap2vmjHWTdylDLftbn3_I

GD Assistant Professor Juan Salamanca has been awarded the Lemann Collaborative Research Grant by the Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies. He will be working with design researchers at the Universidade Federal de Pelotas (UFPEL) in Brazil to develop a data visualization to inform the discussion of the impacts of agriculture in the Brazilian Amazon.

MFA DRI student Holly Strickland's thesis "Care Stories" is up at the Krannert Art Museum, please visit!

-Graphic Design at Illinois School of Art + Design at Illinois

Do you want to know how successful our UIUC graduates are?

91% of our 2022-2023 graduates secured employment (56%), additional education (35%) or volunteer opportunities (

22-23-annual-report | Illini Success | UIUC Summary of the 2022-2023 Graduating Class Body The Illini Success initiative gathers data about the post-graduation pursuits of bachelor’s degree recipients at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. This report focuses on experiences of Illinois students who graduated during the 2022-2023 ac...

The Design Illinois Career Fair today brought together our students with alumni and companies to learn and network.

A big thanks to everyone at the College for planning the event and Knoll for hosting!

GD faculty Jena Marble is presenting at MACAA this weekend on design + AI. Here's her talk!

www.figma.com

Congrats to Assistant Professor Molly Briggs on her latest grant!
"Transdisciplinary Global South Community-Based Learning Programs"

https://publish.illinois.edu/global-strategy/outcomes-stories/transdisciplinary-global-south-community-based-learning-programs/

College of Fine & Applied Arts at Illinois

Transdisciplinary Global South Community-Based Learning Programs – Vision 2030 Global Strategy Transdisciplinary Global South Community-Based Learning Programs The following proposals have received funding to develop transdisciplinary, community-based learning programs focused on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals or other topics of importance within the Global South. Proposals....

Register for : Art & Design Visitors: Curry Hackett | Thursday, March 7 | 6:00 p.m. | Online

https://illinois.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ssmLS52KSCKtlbLK8qWb1A #/registration