Maryland Institute College of Artgraphic design yearbook2011–2012

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Ronin WoodMonica PiccaColin DunnAndrew WaltersHeda HokschirrJasper CrocketStephanie IndrajoJames Anderson

GRAPHIC DESIGN

reetings from the graphic design department! I’m excited to share this publication with you, the hard work of many designers and artists who call MICA home and who are proud to share their accomplishments and ideas. The graphic design department continues to experience an amazing amount of success and growth, and as always, our alumni and supporters – including you – are a significant part of that success. We appreciate your interest in our programming, and welcome your suggestions in maintaining a program of design excellence.

It is an extraordinary time to explore design: designers are no longer limited to client-commissioned practices, media provides opportunities for innovation with wide horizons, and collaboration adds value to designer relationships. MICA is poised to take advantage of these changes in the discipline with dedicated faculty who also serve as professional designers, community collaborations, an outstanding facility, and the nation’s top talent.

What follows is an introduction to a our position, demonstrating our commit-ment to educating design visionaries. Please learn more about us online at micagraphicdesign.org.

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Sincerely,

Brockett HorneChair of graphic design410 225-4258bhorne@mica.edu

One of America’s best graphic design programs

Graphic design is one of the most powerful art forms of our time. Design is commercial, social, public, and political. It shapes the meaning and impact of books, magazines, websites, CD covers, posters, advertisements, logos, film titles, and countless other media. Everywhere you look, designers are using words and images to penetrate people’s hearts and minds.

MICA’s Graphic Design Department offers students the creative, intellectual, and technological skills to become design visionaries. Students learn to shape the form and content of media across the spectrum of publishing, from the printed page to the hand-held screen. Students work to articulate their personal voices as designers and artists, while fashioning messages that communicate to various communities and are relevant to contemporary culture.

Graphic design is an appropriate major for students who like to think conceptually about issues in popular culture. In their courses, students work with images, objects, and materials to create posters, brands, packages, fonts, t-shirts, websites as well as design for books, cultural institutions, products, identities, or public education. Students who are drawn to graphic design enjoy creating functional objects and images for mass audiences. They might envision themselves creating things that persuade, inform, entertain, promote, or delight.

MICA’s graphic design program offers many real-world experiences to students, through internships, trips, presentations and projects that are produced for, and in collaboration with, the Baltimore community. Real-world experiences are well balanced with skill building and methodologies. A commitment to community engagement resonates through the program in all classes and is expanded in elective courses.

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The Body: Enrollment

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Graphic design students come from 48 states and dozens of countries. They choose MICA’s graphic design program for its well-rounded curriculum and the balance of skill-building with knowledge. We have a large population of transfer students from state universities, other majors on campus, community colleges, and other art schools. In the recent past, enrollment has been on the rise as the chart below indicates.

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The Brown Center, built in 2003, houses the graphic design department. Our physical spaces include two computer labs, one seminar spaces, two hybrid spaces, a production studio, a photo studio, a student lounge, and several offices. We offer students over 50 computers, printers, scanners, specialized software, a large collection of specialized fonts, and a range of tools for proto-typing and testing ideas such as digital cameras, Pantone swatchbooks, paper samples, binding tools, etc. Each year we request new resources through the capital request process.

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What’s Inside: Facility + Resources

Social MediaThe department holds several social media profiles, including a departmental blog located at: www.micagraphicdesign.org; a twitter handle: twitter.com/MICA_GD; and a biweekly emails of news, events, and jobs, are sent to students, alumni and faculty.

The Team Involved: Professors

Collectively, the team of faculty provides expertise for educating design leaders of the future. Faculty serve in dual roles as internationally-recognized graphic designers and as educators. A balance of full- and part-time faculty provides insight into the history, theory, practice, and trends of the field.

Zvezdana Stojmirovic: ProfileZvezdana Stojmirovic, a native of Serbia, joined MICA’s faculty in 2005. She teaches across the curriculum, from the foundation year to the senior year, including elective classes such as Fashion Graphics, Toy Design, and collaborative courses with corporate partners such as Black and Decker. Professor Stojmirovic has recently published a book, Participate: Designing with User Generated Content, which both features student work and cutting edge design.

In addition to teaching at MICA, Bruce Willen is partner of Post Typography, a studio specializing in graphic design, conceptual typography, and custom lettering/illustration with additional forays into art, apparel, music, curatorial work, design theory, and vandalism.He creates award-winning work for a variety of clients including the New York Times, U.S. Green Building Council, and Random House. He’s recently written and designed Lettering & Type, a book on lettering and typeface design published by Princeton Architectural Press.

Bruce Willen: Profile

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Ryan CliffordKeetra Dean DixonLew S. FifieldGray Brockett HorneEllen LuptonLili MayaSandie MaxaJennifer Cole PhillipsMark SandersZvezdana Stojmirovic

Ken Barber, House IndustriesKristian Bjornard, KB StudioBen Kiel, House IndustriesBen Kutil, Make Things StudioDan Meyers, Dan Meyers PhotographyOliver Munday, OMGSilas Munro, Housing WorksTony Rutka, Rutka WeadockKristen Spilman, PentagramNolen Strals, Post TypographyBruce Willen, Post Typography

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We Earned It: Alumni

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Adobe Design Achievement Awards, Communication Arts, Fast Company, HOW Art Directors Club, Young Guns, Graphic Design USA Students to Watch, Print magazine.

Places like: Google, Zynga, Adobe, GQ magazine, Kickstarter, CIA, Johns Hopkins, LLBean, Kate Spade, Housing Works, Teen Vogue magazine, Michael Kors, Nate Berkus, Jonathan Adler, McCormick Spices, Under Armour, Baltimore Ravens, Leo Burnett, Hasbro, JCrew, Wolff Olins, FastSpot, Saatchi & Saatchi, Abercrombie & Fitch.

Graduate school at colleges such as: School of Visual Arts, Pratt, Carnegie Mellon, Reading University in the UK, Tamarind Institute, Parsons, Art Center, Cal Arts.

Alumni work all over the world, including positions in Liberia, Turkey, Finland, Germany, Italy, Korea.

ProfileAndy Mangold ’11

Recipient of an Adobe Design Achievement Award and a designer and founder at Friends of the Web, Andy chose MICA for it’s belief in community-based learning and conceptually driven projects. He felt that because technical skills could be taught, a focus on the concep-tual would excel a project from being good to great. MICA’s attention to all types of de-sign, including social design–creating for the “greater good” reinforced his belief that MICA was the right school for him.

MICHAEL FREIMUTH TIMOTHY GOODMAN OF APPLERICK VALICENTITEDDY CRUZ, ARCHITECTEDDIE OPARA OF PENTAGRAMJENNIFER DANIEL OF BLOOMBERG BUSINESS WEEKJONATHAN BARNBROOKALICIA CHENG AND SARAH GEPHART OF MGMT DESIGNADAM MICHAELS OF PROJECT PROJECTS EMILY PILLOTON OF PROJECT HJOHN BIELENBERGSTEFAN SAGMEISTERMARTIN VENEZKYPAUL SAHRETOORMIXCAMERON SINCLAIR

The Talent: Visiting Designers

MICHAEL FREIMUTH TIMOTHY GOODMAN OF APPLERICK VALICENTITEDDY CRUZ, ARCHITECTEDDIE OPARA OF PENTAGRAMJENNIFER DANIEL OF BLOOMBERG BUSINESS WEEKJONATHAN BARNBROOKALICIA CHENG AND SARAH GEPHART OF MGMT DESIGNADAM MICHAELS OF PROJECT PROJECTS EMILY PILLOTON OF PROJECT HJOHN BIELENBERGSTEFAN SAGMEISTERMARTIN VENEZKYPAUL SAHRETOORMIXCAMERON SINCLAIR

“ It’s about designing with people, and letting appropriate solutions emerge from within.”

The graphic design curriculum at MICA is built around a three-year sequence of core design courses. Beginning in the sophomore year, students are required to take two sets of paired courses in typography and graphic design. Juniors and seniors continue the core sequences and also have the opportunity to take ad-vanced electives in graphic design and other studio subjects. A required photog-raphy class can be taken at any time. Specialized electives are rotated to address relevant topics in the field.

The program offers many real-world experiences to students, through internships, in-class assignments that are produced, while collaborating with the Baltimore community, in conjunction with the Center for Design Thinking and the Center for Design Practice. Real-world experiences are well balanced with skill building and methodologies. A commitment to community engagement resonates through the program in all classes and is expanded in classes such as Design Coalition, Flex-ible Design Studio, Fashion Graphics, and Applied Studio.

Work It Out: Curriculum

ProfileStephanie Indrajo ’12a senior graphic design major, came to MICA by way of Cupertino, California. She’s taken advantage of MICA’s offerings through elective coursework and extra curricular activities. One of the things she has found most impressive about the Graphic Design department at MICA is the quiality of teaching that goes on each day in every classroom. Her teachers have inpired her to improve not only design wise but overall as well.

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On The Go: Initiatives

Travel and LearnOver spring break, MICA graphic design offers travel courses for students. Last year, 12 students traveled to Maine to engage in design for community engage-ment, led by faculty member Ryan Clifford. This spring break “blitz” travel course allowed for students to explore rural America and to engage in social de-sign off campus. The students created a publication about their experiences, and an exhibition was held on campus in April. The trip was even featured in the local Belfast, Maine newspaper. In 2012, students will travel to Alabama for a similar trip.

Globe Poster CollectionMICA recently acquired a comprehensive collection of prints, wood type, imagery, and heritage through the Globe Collection. This vital teaching resource offers in-sight into Baltimore’s history of civil rights, music, and politics. Friends of Globe, a group of students dedicat-ed to bringing the collection to MICA, was featured on NPR with ideas about how to honor typographic legacy within the digital era.

Maryland Highway Administration45 juniors developed statewide campaigns to counter Drunk Driving, commissioned by Urbanite magazine and the Maryland State Highway Safety Office. Many works were selected for inclusion in off-campus exhibi-tions at CaseWorks, ArtScape Festival, and in the state house in Annapolis. Six juniors received Judges Choice awards of merit for their projects.

Station NorthStudents designed headliner advertisements for the Charm City Circulator, a free city bus. The ads pro-mote Station North Arts and Entertainment District, a neighborhood adjacent to the college. Three of these the cards were displayed in the free Baltimore buses and the student designers also received citations from Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake for their work.

GOING PLACES, SEEING THINGS

On The Go: Initiatives

MICA Design LeagueA student group, MICA Design League is entirely student organized and run. Participants offer insights into the professional roles of designers and explore the discipline through field trips, workshops, weekly lectures, monthly film screenings, a typographic game show, a design swap, and two major exhibitions. The group partners with Baltimore’s AIGA chapter.

PublishingAn on-campus initiative led by faculty member Ellen Lupton, the Center for Design Thinking has supported the development of several best-selling books. Faculty, students and alumni contribute to a range of printed knowledge known as the “Design Briefs” series pub-lished by Princeton Architectural Press. Recent titles include: Participate by Zvezdana Stojmirovic and Helen Armstrong, Graphic Design Thinking by Ellen Lupton, and Social Design by Andrew Shea.

Workshops.Clever Claver, a series of lectures for-and-by students, is held weekly in the spring term. In this new event, seniors speak about their work and their inspiration for 30 minutes between classes. A series of workshops directed at portfolio website development is held on Thursday nights in the spring term as well. The annual “Type Is Right” graphic design game show, with host Ellen Lupton, offers free prizes, Chipotle, and a great time! Many other workshops are held outside of classtime for students offering insight into topics such as: talking about your work, freelanc-ing, screenprinting, and exhibitions.

Feldman ResidencyAnother collaborative project, the Feldman Residency, brought together the Center for Art Education and the Graphic Design departments. Emily Pilotton of Project H visited campus to deliver an inspiring presenta-tion and a workshop of curriculum planning for select graphic design and art education students. Participat-ing students said about the workshop: “It was interest-ing to think about the role of an educator with design as the teaching strategy.”

Finale: Student and Faculty Achievements

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Print’s Regional Design Annual, HOW magazine, by the Baker Artist Award, with AIGA awards, from the Art Directors Club, in GOOD magazine, in Graphic Design USA, Urbanite magazine, Baltimore Sun, Society of Publication Designers, with ADDY awards, Communication Arts magazine, Wired magazine, Graphis magazine, InStyle magazine, Pixel Awards, Star magazine, and the New York Times, and the ONE Show.

Fast Company, Under Consideration, the Dieline.com, the Lovely Package, 50 and 50, Kern and Burn, Grain Edit, Swiss Miss, refinery 29, GOOD, Daily Drop Cap, Wall Street Journal, ESPN, Design Inspiration, Columbia Records, Design Chat, and Design Work Life.

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D Center Baltimore, AIGA Fresh Dialogue New York, Cooper Union, RE:FORM School, Cal Arts, ACE Hotel in New York, OFF Barcelona, Virginia Commonwealth University, Kansas City Art Institute, Type Directors, Apple stores.

AIGA, American Advertising Federation, WorldStudio, and the Baltimore Production Club. The department is grateful for alumni who support on-campus scholarships that allow students to meet their goals.

Vitra Design museum, OFFF Barcelona, Typeforce 1 and 2, Co-Prosperity, ACE Film Festival, Este Park Film Festival

Student WorkSam Kittinger ’12

Featured on Fast Company & Lovely Package

Because of You: Donate

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Visit www.mica.edu/give to make a gift securely online. Make sure you indicate that you’d like your gift restricted to the graphic design department. Every contribution really does make a difference.

Regardless of the size of your gift, we know that our former graphic design majors are doing some of the best work out there today and we are proud to count you among our alumni.

Please keep in touch—we’d love to hear from you!

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• Tell your high school art teacher that MICA is a great place to study design.• Contact our Career Development Office if you would like to hire a MICA alumnus• Put MICA in your bio, or tell your colleagues about your experiences! You are our best advocates.

Goes a long way towards software for students, digital SLR cameras, ipads for students to experiment with, printing and distributing a tabloid newspaper to advance a social cause, or participating in a conference.

Secure typeface licenses for the computer labs, provide a roll of seamless paper for the photo studio, or help support visiting artists that inspire students and faculty alike.

Provides a scholarship for a student AIGA membership, a subscription to Communication Arts magazine for the student lounge, the ability to screen-print posters to advertise student events, host the domain name for the student blog, or augment the library’s DVD collection of films.

Planning, reviewing and evaluation outcomes is part of our culture.Now, to build on our successes listed above, we need your help.

Establishes a scholarship in your name—or the name of a loved one—for a graphic design major.

This book was designed by Stephanie Indrajo ‘12 with photography by Katie Doherty ’14 and Justine Smith ’12.

Designed at Maryland Institute College of Art in spring ’12.