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Southern Gourmet Glyphs
Roam along the cobblestone roads of historic Charleston, South Carolina, as you learn to decipher the subtle language of typography in restaurant signage and how you can tell exactly what kind of food to expect with fonts. This 112 page beautifully photographed narrative is a mixture of an artistic showcase of one of the top Read more
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History of Visual Voice
THE HISTORY OF FILTERING SELF OUT OF VISUAL VOICE From the dawn of civilization, when hunting exploits were expressed on cave walls, to the texting telephones of the 21st century, we have slowly domesticated our narrative text to embrace uniformity. For centuries, context in form variation has been stripped from narrative visual voice for the Read more
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History: Quality vs. Quantity
From the dawn of civilization, when hunting exploits were expressed on cave walls, to the texting telephones of the 21st century, we have slowly domesticated our narrative text to embrace uniformity. For centuries, context in form variation has been stripped from narrative visual voice for the sake of mass communication innovations which rely on graphic Read more
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Construct Your Visual Voice
With a digital visual voice, the goal is creating the best representation of self in typography using a mixture of verbal voice and handwritten visual voice elements. An innovation making strides in digital technology is talk-to‐text or digital dictation. This technology has been around for years, but it’s been challenged by the inaccuracy of voice Read more
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Visual Voice Gallery
This gallery has prototype constructions of individual’s visual voice paired with audible recordings rendered by the diagnostic coupling of ranges of vocal pitch corresponding to letter stroke thickness, sound duration represented as physical letter width, and sound volume expressed in height of letter. They are the embodiment of each person’s visual voice using facilitating the Read more
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Professional Clientele
Over a career in graphic design and marketing spanning more than 25 years, I have had the honor of working with many incredible people that have added to the creative canvas of my life. Whether working with large International corporations or small local charities, each creative directive has had a meaningful place in my heart Read more
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Southern Gourmet Glyphs
Roam along the cobblestone roads of historic Charleston, South Carolina, as you learn to decipher the subtle language of typography in restaurant signage and how you can tell exactly what kind of food to expect with fonts. This 112 page beautifully photographed narrative is a mixture of an artistic showcase of one of the top Read more
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Personality in Fonts
Celebrity Type There are incidents in which cultural and true personal identity are being revived in typography. Typefaces are being formulated based on the archival writings of famous people throughout history. These typefaces are built from letterforms gathered from handwritten documents and ultimately assembled into typographic collections. This is done to represent the self‐expression of Read more
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Teaching Philosophy
With a blend of extensive professional experience and academic acumen my classes, from beginner to graduate studies, are infused with cognitive creative thinking challenges at the individual level. To truly unleash a student’s potential sole proprietorship is essential, hence I sculpt my curricula to a mixture of academic lecturing and tactile fortified engagement focused on Read more
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24 Hour Design Marathon
From its inaugural debut in 2018 at Furman University, the Sleep When You’re Dead 24 hour Design Marathons have been a yearly event I relish being involved with. I have been fortunate to be able to spectate on my favorite aspect of creative thinking, the raw formative process. Yes, I am that professor whom flaunts Read more
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Emotional Punctuation?!
How is Character in Characters relevant? Why is it an important topic? Straight out of the news and a psychological study at Binghamton University insight in to a growing problem on our horizon… Associate professor Celia Klin, associate dean of psychology at Binghamton University lead a study canvasing 126 undergraduate students on their perceived understanding Read more
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The Accent of Sign Language
Do you think your voice is only confined to your audible sound? If your voice is the result of physical bodily development and accumulated experience then you are the unique vehicle of your own customized self-communication. Therefore, your gestural nuances are as personalized as the unusual sound of your voice because they are all about Read more
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Graduate Typography I
The Master of Arts in Strategic Design graduate program is a collaborative endeavour between Furman University and The Miami Art School’s Portfolio Center in Atlanta. Pooling graduates from Art, Communications, Graphic Design, English, Marketing & Advertising and Business, this hybrid program is a mixture of academic foundational studies and professional networking with advanced skill enhancement. Read more
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Graphic Design II
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Sartastic
Enriched Narrative Text The degeneration of text form and structure has always been the answer for quantity over quality. What happens if we reverse the course and focus on quality, now in narrative text? Responsive text could enrich narratives by adding contextual details. We could open the gate on corralled and oppressed letterforms in narrative Read more
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Social Conundrum
Graffiti has been around since the dawn of man, spanning from painted illustrative messages on cave walls to today’s celebrity graffiti artist, like Banksy and Shepard Fairey. However, disfiguring one message for another is weak, as Banksy himself calls it a form of “low-level dissent” (Ellsworth-Jones) especially when compared to the power of mass communication. Read more
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Graphic Design I
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Understand Visual Voice
Imagine stepping outside on a cold crisp morning, speaking, and ice crystals gather in the air to form your words, a visual to your voice. Did you picture your words resembling text out of a book, or did you imagine more? Was your visual voice your personality in lettering and your character in characters? Were Read more
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Understanding Your Digital Voice
Imagine stepping outside on a cold crisp morning, speaking, and ice crystals gather in the air to form your words, a visual to your voice. Did you picture your words resembling text out of a book, or did you imagine more? Was your visual voice your personality in lettering and your character in characters? Were Read more
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Constructing Your Visual Voice
DIGITAL VISUAL VOICE With a digital visual voice, the goal is creating the best representation of self in typography using a mixture of verbal voice and handwritten visual voice elements. An innovation making strides in digital technology is talk-to‐text or digital dictation. This technology has been around for years, but it’s been challenged by the Read more