The Minneapolis College of Art and Design 1993-1995 catalog, designed by P. Scott Makela / From printmag.com
Anne Galperin
Associate Professor Anne Galperin wrote a May 2024 guest post for Printmag.com about the late print, graphic, and multimedia designer P. Scott Makela, who Galperin interviewed as part of her MFA thesis at Cranbook Academy of Art.
"While designers of different generations, mindsets, and training disagreed acutely (and sometimes quite nastily) about what graphic design was and what, how, and to whom it should communicate, Makela was his own kind of designer," wrote Galperin. "An enduring inspiration was weighty, machined stuff—the primordial analog output of industrial production, which he frequently rebuilt into dimensional letterforms, married to meaning, and presented in a succinct, unambiguous single punch."
Read Galperin's full article, which includes the interview she conducted with Makela in 1997.
From peoplesgdarchive.org
Amy Papaelias
Associate Professor Amy Papaelias co-hosted "How Design Shapes Radical Scholarship: The People's Graphic Design Archive Add-a-Thon" in March, in tandem with Kent State University professor Jessica Barness.
The virtual event, according to the People's Graphic Design Archive, "built the PGDA’s collections related to design and radical scholarship." The organization defines radical scholarship design as "the design of academic artifacts that establish or explore new disciplines emerging from social and political movements over the past sixty years. As a means to shift disciplinary focus, launch new branches of thought, or make scholarship more accessible beyond the academy, the radical academic artifact — as a political and social agent, often produced with limited resources — typically must balance its counterculture presence alongside its institutional standing."
To learn more about Papaelias and Barness' work, visit whatscholarshiplookslike.net, the site they created as part of this ongoing research project—or read more about it on the PGDA's website.
A client project for Meta / From thewoojinlee.com
Woojin Lee
The Department of Design is thrilled to welcome their new colleague, Woojin Lee, who will start in fall 2024 as an Assistant Professor.
Lee is a New York-based interdisciplinary designer/artist/educator with a range of professional and creative practices in interaction and communications design, sculpture, and video installation. Lee received an MFA in Digital and Interdisciplinary Art Practice from CUNY and an MS in Communications Design from Pratt. She has taught in the design programs at Pratt, CUNY and FIT, and her industry experience includes Meta, Adobe Systems, Google, and Razorfish. She is currently a resident artist at Longwood @ Governors Island in New York City.
Learn more about Lee on her website.
