Design Gig Collective Band, LLC
We collaborate with each other and partners as design professionals seeking equitable and sustainable ways of working, as design instigators aiming for conceptual and visual depth, as allies in our commitment to exploration and discovery.
Author and designer of the book Graphic Design in Context: Typography about the micro and the macro of designing with typography in the digital era.
Featured speaker at Design and Teaching Conferences for two decades.
Improvisational Theater student: Levels 1 and 2 at L.A. Improv
Co-curator of two large design exhibitions: Deep Surface: Ornament and Pattern in Design at the Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh (CAM Raleigh) and DesignInquiry: Futurespective at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA MECA) in Portland, Maine.
Award winning Designer for all ArtCenter College of Design collateral from 1998 to 2002.
Team leader of designers, copywriters, photographers, and production managers accomplishing small and large scale projects.
Professor Emeritus at North Carolina State University, College of Design.
Visiting Workshop Leader for many colleges and universities including ArtCenter, Kansas City Art Institute, California College of the Arts, San Diego State University, Pratt Insititute, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Otis College of Art and Design, Cranbrook, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Maryland Institute College of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.
Course teacher of various design subjects while building the design practice SúperStové!
Department Head of the Graphic Design Program in the College of Design, North Carolina State University. Director of the Masters of Graphic Design Program in the College of Design.
Drum novice. The Design Gig Collective Band is the first band organized.
Awardee for design work from AIGA, American Center for Design, College Publications, Print Magazine, and more.
Working Board Member of the nonprofit eduational organization DesignInquiry for nine years. Framed and coordinated an annual 24-person event in a barn on an island off the coast of Maine.
Recipient of a BFA in Illustration from ArtCenter College of Design.
Inductee into the Photography and Print archive, Library of Congress.
Invited contributer of design work for Emigre, East Coast West Coast, Graphistes aux états-unis, Eye Magazine (GB), Form Magazine (NL), Graphis, Communication Arts.
Invited contributor to the design exhibitions Design(h)er, East Coast / West Coast Dreams, DesignInuiry: Futurespective, Dimension and Typography, and more.
Workshop leader on topics such as Improv Critique, Reimagining Function, and Typography.
Interviewee on the podcast Scratching the Surface (Episode 153).
Denise Gonzales Crisp, MFA, California Institute of the Arts and BFA, ArtCenter College of Design.
Co-founder of Outside Circle, one of the first global web-based artist collectives.
Founding editor and creative director of Flint Magazine, the multimedia magazine in a box.
Co-founder/ principle of goodgood, a social impact design studio based in Boston and Detroit.
Co-founder of Mothlight Microcinema with filmmaker Julia Yezbick.
Founding member of the Detroit Phonographers Union.
Producer and designer for Sensate Journal that publishes experiments in critical media practice.
Visiting Lecturer at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Harvard University, MIT’s Media Lab, and other institutions.
Director of the Community Design Studio in Flint, a unique student learning lab for equity centered, community-based design.
Associate Professor of Design at The University of Michigan, Flint.
Chair of an Art Department for twenty-nine eventful months.
Crafter of a one handed bowline (4.7 seconds).
Father of two incredibly generous, inquisitive, and kind human beings.
Chair of the Arts & Culture Research Cluster and Director of Riverbank Arts.
Faculty Fellow at the Urban Institute for Racial, Economic, & Environmental Justice.
Workshop leader at RISD, Brown University, North Carolina State University, and SUNY.
Invited seaker at Rhode Island School of Design, Brown University, North Carolina State University, SUNY.
Benjamin Gaydos, MFA, Virginia Commonwealth University.
Creative director and designer for the University of Southern California School of Architecture, Los Angeles.
Designer of the Cholla type family in collaboration with Denise Gonzales Crisp for ArtCenter College of Design, which the foundry Emigré Fonts later published.
Recipient of four Type Directors Club Certificate of Excellence in Type Design, New York and Tokyo.
Type designer of a winning entry in the international type design competition bukva:raz!, organized by the Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI).
Author of the essay "Non-Existent Design: Women and the Creation of Type," published in Visual Communication: The New Typography, A Special Issue, London.
Invited contributor to the group exhibition Frische Schriften (Fresh Type) at the Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich, Switzerland.
Design Awardee, Swiss Federal Office of Culture, Bern, Switzerland.
Contributor to the group exhibitions New Typefaces / Neue Schriften at the Gutenberg Museum in Germany, and Swiss Federal Design Awards at the Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich, Switzerland.
Visiting lecturer at many conferences and universities including Ringling School of Art and Design, California Institute of the Arts, Nicholls State University, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, Typographische Gesellschaft Austria, Hochschule der Künste Bern, Haute Ecole des Arts du Rhin, University of Reading, Royal College of Art, Vermont College of Fine arts.
Contributor to over 50 design and typography books and publications.
Professor of Design at the University of Houston.
Honorary degree of Doctor of Fine Arts awardee from Moore College of Art & Design.
Subject ot profiles and interviews in My Fonts, FontStand, and Perptual Beta.
Multiple language speaker (German, French, and English).
Certificate holder of Basic Keelboat Sailing 101.
Proud parent of two multilingual kids.
Sibylle Hagmann, MFA, California Institute of the Arts with a focus on Typeface Design, and BFA from Schule für Gestaltung Basel.
Educator for 14 years at schools in Los Angeles including Otis College of Art and Design, USC Roski School of Art and Design, and Los Angeles City College.
Assistant Chair of the Communication Arts and Graduate Graphic Design programs at Otis College of Art and Design.
Founded the Southland Institute (for critical, durational, and typographic post-studio practices).
Workshop leader at .........
Musician releasing music occasionally under the moniker "Sollilja."
Open source revival typeface designer: Southland Gothic (based on Times Gothic).
Representative for Southland Institute at art book fairs in Bergen, Norway, at Printed Matter LAABF, Otis MFA Art Book Fair, and Acid Free at Blum & Poe.
Tenure Track Assistant Professor at California State University, Los Angeles.
Workshop leader and lecturer at California College of Arts, California Institute of the Arts, and Rhode Island School of Design.
Interviewee for the book One and Many Mirrors: "Graphic Design Counter Education."
Interviewee on Scratching the Surface podcast (Episode 70).
Coordinator for Recent Pasts / Tomorrow's Archives exhibition and book making event sponsored by Southland Institute.
Invited contributor to After the Bauhaus Before the Internet: "Some pedagogies of the Southland Institute."
Joe Potts, MFA, California Institute of the Arts with a dual focus in Graphic Design and Critical Studies.
Designer for the Navy Reservist newspaper that transitioned into a magazine.
Co-curriculum developer for the online course series BIPOC Design History: "Black Design in America: African Americans and the African Diaspora in Graphic Design."
Essayist for Baseline Shift: Untold Stories of Women in Graphic Design History: “A Black Renaissance Woman: Louise E. Jefferson.”
Contributor to the book Nameplate: “A Note About the Typography."
Graphic designer in the Office of Communications at California Institute of the Arts for three years.
Book designer the non-profit organization 826 New Orleans.
Tenured professor at three universities.
Invited speaker at Typographics, AIGA Design Education Conference, and the Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC).
Featured artist in a solo exhibition at the University of Missouri-St. Louis entitled Black Lives Matter Too.
Interviewee on the podcast Revision Path with Maurice Cherry.
Invited contributor of design work in Idea Magazine and Print Magazine Online.
Awardee of the William O. Steinmetz ’50 Designers-in-Residence, Maryland Institute College of Art.
Grantee of the Lucas Artists Program "The Underworlding" residency at Montalvo Art Center in Saratoga, California.
Kickboxing participant on episodes of the fitness show Get Fit With Leslie.
Recipient of a Creative Research Grant from The University of Texas at Austin.
Recipient of the Board of Regents Grant from Southeastern Louisiana University.
Co-writer and designer of an installation/intervention for the exhibition Inside Out & Upside Down with Silas Munro: A dialogue with the history of graphic design and the history of poster design at California Institute of the Arts.
Tasheka Arceneaux-Sutton, MFA, California Institute of the Arts.
UI, UX, and product designer at Viget labs (Durham NC, Boulder CO, Falls Church VA, and Chattnooga, TN).
Adjunct Lecturer in Typography at North Carolina State University.
Visual design mentor for undergraduate design students through Viget Labs' apprenticeship and mentorship programs.
Co-workshop leader contemplating "Time," with Randa Hadi, at the North Carolina State University MGXD annual retreat.
Student of Contact Improvisation and other somatic practices.
Outdoor enthusiast and National Outdoor Leadership School graduate. A student of Nature.
Graduate of University of North Carolina Chapel Hill in Art History.
Graduate of University of North Carolina Chapel Hill in Photography.
Nomadic worker, vibe setter, and cat mother.
Lead designer for the Real Deal on Fentanyl Campaign with the Ad Council.
Informal Ethnographer, skilled at observation.
Design Researcher studying "Data Sense: Facilitating Citizen Sensemaking of Smart Environments through Augmented Urban Experiences."
Exhibition designer, coordinator, and contributor for the North Carolina State University, College of Design extension of DesignInquiry: Futurespective, working with fellow students.
Indian Himalayas backpacker.
Researcher studying mentorship and design toward diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Lifelong design student with certificates in Speculative Design and Semiotics.
Exhibition curator and contributor for Picturing Place, a visualization of Old Rocky Mount at UNC Chapel Hill.
Katie Frohbose, MGXD, North Carolina State University College of Design, with a focus on Graphic Design and Experience Design.
Design Professor of the Graphic Design Programs at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts).
Invited essayist for the book After the Bauhaus, Before the Internet. "The Way You Think About It."
Volunteer, Friends of California Condor Wild and Free, observing and tracking condor nests.
Improvisational Theater student: Level 1 (COURAGE!) at L.A. Improv.
Student of the Balinese flute.
Invited contributor to collections including The Getty, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, San Francisco MoMA. and the Berman Collection.
Co-writer of a collaborative essay for the book The Nest, Slanted publishers.
Sewer of a pair of pants using Merrimekko up-cycled sofa cover fabric.
Program Director of the Graphic Design Programs at California Institute of the Arts.
Co-Founder of Stripe L.A. studio which designed books for the cultural sector.
Coordinator for ten years working with students to design and silkscreen print posters for the art space Machine Project in Los Angeles.
Course and workshop leader of unconventional topics for Machine Project: "Drawings and Drones," "Banana," and "Autobiography Club."
Working Board Member of the nonprofit educational organization DesignInquiry for nine years. Framed and coordinated an annual 24-person event in a barn on an island off the coast of Maine.
Artist and illustrator, capturing the perceptibly precious and subtly threatening nature of nature.
Invited contributor to design publications including Emigré, East Coast West Coast, Graphistes aux États-Unis, All Messed Up: Unpredictable Graphics, Metro Letters, Graphic Design in Context: Typography.
Invited contributor to the exhibitions Friendly Layers, Deep Surface: Contemporary Ornament and Pattern, California Design Biennial, Result Formed Before, California Dream, Work from California.
Invited speaker at Pamona College, Claremont, San Diego State University, Michigan State University, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Otis College of Art and Design.
Long-time investor into collaboration and friendships.
Gail Swanlund, MFA, California Institute of the Arts.