Last month, just before Spring Break, the LADC hosted a Kinetic Poetry presentation. The event was the result of a collaborative project between English professor Keetje Kuipers' creative writing 'Poetry Writing II' course and Graphic Design professor Courtney Windham's 'Type in Motion' course. Professor Kuipers' students submitted original pieces written earlier in the semester to Professor Windham's students who then interpreted the poems into typographic animation. The outcome was a unique and alluring show of both written and spoken word as well as visual art!

To see the students' presentations follow the links below. Click here to see photos from the event.

Rachel Davis, poet | Eddie Carmona, designer

Jordan Danford, poet | Todd Durkee, designer

Jessica Lewis, poet | Natalie Johnson, designer

Caroline Barr, poet | Kimberley Taylor-Duncan, desi

Kayleigh Pears, poet | Sam Reiss, designer

Nathaniel Vincent, poet | Julianna Cvetetic, designer

Claire Walters, poet | Winston Waters, designer

Charlie Sterchi, poet | April Southerland, designer

Laura Hanna, poet | Kathryn Stalnaker, designer

Seth Sillman, poet | Rachel Morey, designer

Courtney Fair, poet | Sarah Palmer, designer

Lauren Clark, poet | Amanda Sturgis, designer

Simon Winston, poet | Shelby Reister, designer

Emma Hyche, poet | Emily Lewis, designer

Amber Bryant, poet | Megan Wilson, designer 

When the Board of Trustees met on June 21, 2013, they designated four large departments as schools, including one within the College of Architecture, Design, & Construction. The Department of Industrial and Graphic Design (DIGD) exceeded the university's criteria for school status, which were based on degrees offered, enrollment, faculty, student credit hours and prominence within their fields. DIGD will now be known as the School of Industrial and Graphic Design!

The reclassification as a school indicates the former departments' level of achievement with a suitable title, and this new identity will allow these schools to compete even more effectively with programs of similar size at peer institutions.

Congratulations on this recognition, School of Industrial and Graphic Design!

Find more information in the news releases cited below:

Summerford, Roy. "Four academic departments gain new identity as schools." The Auburn Report, 28 June 2013, 3. 

"Department of Industrial and Graphic Design Becomes School of Industrial and Graphic Design." DIGDNews, Department of Industrial and Graphic Design, 01 July 2013.

A hefty olive-green box has appeared in our reference section: The Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design. This "book-in-a-box" is great (and fun) to sift through for inspiration and enrichment.

It contains five hundred sheets of card stock which together give a history of graphic design. Each sheet has two sides: one reproduces an important work of graphic design (see Side 1 below), and one includes the name of the designer, client, title of the piece, and historical/biographical remarks (see Side 2 below). Works range from the Gutenberg Bible to the Mercedes-Benz logo to the Obama posters (and the Periodic table is in there too!).

Side 1: Side 2:

Also in the box is an index you can use to look up works by title, designer, client, or category. We currently have sorted the pages alphabetically by last name of the designer, but it is possible to sort them chronologically or by category. Which do you think is best?