Rob Carter
Professor / MFA University of Illinois
Robert Carter has published American Typography Today and in conjunction with Philip Meggs and Benjamin Day, Typographic Design: Form and Communication, which has become the prime text for typographic design education in the United States. He has won innumerable awards for his graphic design work from such organizations as the American Institute of Graphic Arts, the major professional society of graphic design professionals and design educators; the Type Directors Club; and the Art Directors Club of New York. His work has appeared in Graphis, the major international publication on graphic design, Print, one of the two major national professional publications in the United States in the communication arts field, and Creativity. His work has been exhibited locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally and he is called upon to lecture at universities and to design organizations nationally.
rccarter@vcu.edu Pollak 307, 804.828.7924 v
Laura Chessin
Associate Professor / MFA Rhode Island School of Design
Laura Chessin began her professional design career in the 1970’s as a typesetter, and has worked in the field ever since. She holds an MFA in Graphic Design from RISD and a BFA in Photography from Cornell University. Prior to her position at VCU, she maintained her own studio focused on publication and print-media design based in Amherst, Massachusetts with such clients as Smith College, Williams College, the Clark Art Institute, Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival, and Lego Corporation. As a consultant in Boston she apprenticed with designers at WGBH, Cambridge Seven Associates and Ciba-Corning. She has published numerous articles on typography and lettering arts. Her most recent project, “Image of Safety”, combining photography with text to address issues related to domestic violence and changing public perceptions, has been exhibited extensively across the US and in Europe.
lchessin@vcu.edu Floyd 202, 804 828 7924 v
John Demao
Associate Dean for VCUQatar / MPD North Carolina State University School of Design
John Demao Jr. has a design background in information analysis/organization, publication planning/production and design methodology. Working with local, regional, and national clients, his experience includes private sector, public, and academic projects in both design and administrative capacities. He was the Southeast Regional Representative on the governing board of the Graphic Design Education Association, the only national organization for graphic design educators, and was one of the original seven steering committee members who founded the organization. He has lectured nationally, and internationally, most recently being invited to present a series of three lectures, “Nuevos dispenos para nuevas tendencias,” at the Universidad de Palermo in Buenos Aires, Argentina and as a seminar participant at the 5th European League of Independent Art Schools Conference in Helsinki, Finland. He has also been involved in the development of the design curriculum for the Shaqab College of Design Arts, Emirate of Qatar, and is currently the Assistant Dean of the Qatar Program.
jdemao@vcu.edu Pollak 202. 804 225 4296 v
Steve Hoskins
Associate Professor / MFA Rhode Island School of Design
Steve Hoskins has designed web interfaces and worked on interactive information design beginning in 1995. During the preceding ten years he practiced print design and illustration. He has worked for many clients including Bell Atlantic, Apple Computer, 3M, Forrester Research, Harvard Business School, the Washington Post, and MIT. In addition to professional practice, he has taught in the design programs of V.C.U.-Qatar, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rhode Island School of Design, Towson University, University of Maryland Baltimore County, and the Corcoran School of Art. Hoskins holds B.F.A. and B.A. degrees from New Mexico State University, an M.A. from Michigan State University, and an M.F.A. from RISD.
slhoskin@vcu.edu Pollak 310. 804 828 7087 v
Jamie Mahoney
Assistant Professor / MFA Virginia Commonwealth University
Jamie Mahoney received her BFA and MFA in Design from Virginia Commonwealth University. Prior to returning to school to complete her education, she was Vice President / Senior Art Director at The Martin Agency in Richmond, Virginia with an established reputation in creating campaigns for major national and international accounts. She has worked on a client roster that includes Mercedes-Benz, Chrysler Plymouth, the National Salvation Army, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Valvoline, Seiko, Nickelodeon, Timberland, Finlandia Vodka and Coca-Cola USA. Her work has been recognized in national award shows such as The New York Art Director’s Show, The One Show, The Magazine Publishers of America Kelly Awards, Communication Arts Magazine and Print. Her designs and films have also been showcased internationally in the British Design and Art Direction annual, at Cannes, and in Graphis and Archive magazines. She has judged national and international shows including Communication Arts and the Magazine Publishers of America Kelly Awards.
mahoneyjb@vcu.edu Pollak 308, 804 828 1709 v
John Malinoski
Associate Professor / MFA Rochester Institute of Technology
Malinoski has a BA from SUNY Fredonia in Studio Arts and MFA from Rochester Institute of Technology in Graphic Design. He teaches graphic design, design theory and typography; makes and has made graphic design, typography, exhibition design, furniture, hand puppets, constructions, photographs, poetry and recontextualized articles of clothing; coordinated the Graduate Program in Visual Communications at VCU; and coordinated exchange programs between VCU and the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, Holland. Professor Malinoski maintains a steady practice catering to the needs of non-profits and benevolent businesses. Awards, publications, presentations and exhibitions include AIGA, UCDA, ADCW, TDCNY, Print, Step Inside Design, GDEA, SEACA, Zed, AAM, various galleries and Rotovision. He currently teaches in the department's Design Center, an honors studio that works for non profit and community organizations. If you feel that there are too many signs in the world, then perhaps you and John can work collectively as erasers as well as makers of visual communication.
jbmalino@vcu.edu Pollak 306, 804 828 7923 v
Roy McKelvey
Associate Chair, Graduate Program Director /
MS Carnegie Mellon University
Roy McKelvey has an MS in Visual Interface design and a BFA in Painting and Drawing from Carnegie Mellon University. He is the author and designer of Hypergraphics, a book on designing for the world-wide-web published by Rotovision SA, and was a co-editor, co- art director and contributor to the book, Revival of the Fittest: Classic Versions of Digital Typefaces published by RC Publications, a subsidiary of Print Magazine. In 1999, Roy, with fellow professor, Steven Hoskins, founded the online journal, Loop: AIGA Journal of Interaction Design Education, where he served as co-editor of the publication until 2004. His research interests include interaction design, usability and issues related to designing for the world wide web.
rdmckelv@vcu.edu Pollak 323, 804 828 6188 v
Mary McLaughlin
Associate Dean Academic Affairs Qatar
Mary McLaughlin practices as a consulting project designer who has worked on a variety of environmental design projects including the graphic design and development of comprehensive signage for the Boston Common and Public Garden, Boston Common History Wall, Arnold Arboretum, and Olmsted’s Emerald Necklace. While working as a consultant to Joseph A. Wetzel Associates in Boston, she was responsible for the design of the New York Zoological Society’s Membership Room and outdoor signage at Central Park Zoo, the Rainforest Exhibit at the North Carolina Zoo, the Elephant and Rhino House, Keith W. Johnson Zoo Center at the Bronx Zoo’s Astor Court; exhibit design for the Aerospace Museum of Los Angeles, California, Great Plains Zoo and Museum in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Previous to involvement in exhibit design she was principal of Designed For whose clients included Little, Brown and Company, WGBH, and Radcliffe College. She has received awards from the Boston Art Director’s Club, Women in Communication and the Society of Environmental Graphic Designers. Her work has appeared in Architectural Record, Art and Architecture, Global Architecture, and the New York Times.
mamclaug@vcu.edu currently working on the VCU-Q campus in Qatar
Susan King Roth
Associate Dean for Research and Academic Affairs, VCUarts, Associate Professor / MA Ohio State University, Department of Industrial, Interior, Visual Communication Design.
Susan King Roth is an Associate Dean in the School of the Arts and Associate Professor of Graphic Design at VCU. She received a B.F.A. from Cooper Union and MA from The Ohio State University where she served as an Associate Dean and Chair of Industrial, Interior & Visual Communication Design and co-founded and co-directed the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Art and Design. At VCU she promotes faculty research and academic and strategic initiatives in the School of the Arts and teaches graduate research in Graphic Design. She is Vice President of the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD), serving as a consultant and evaluator of academic programs in the arts and design throughout the U.S. She has published and presented nationally and internationally on design research, human-centered design, and design education. She serves on the advisory board of Design for Democracy, an initiative of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) and has participated in related activities at the Center for American Politics and Citizenship, University of Maryland and the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Her published research on the design and usability of voting ballots and systems was widely cited in the media following the presidential election of 2000 leading to ongoing involvement in federal and state reform initiatives and federally-funded research. She previously taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Ohio Wesleyan University and The Ohio State University and practiced graphic design in New York, California, Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Ohio.
skroth@vcu.edu Pollak 201, 804 828 1701 v
Nancy Strube
Assistant Professor / BFA Parsons School of Design
Nancy Lea Strube has been teaching the matrix perspective within the graphic design department for a number of years, allowing students an insight to this groundbreaking formula. She has been awarded numerous grant-in-aids to develop matrix perspective computer software systems and a hands-on drawing system. Matrix perspective, not using vanishing points, has been hailed by Novell International Software System as a significant contribution to the industry as a three-dimensional modeling system. For 25 years Strube has also been working with the Richmond Public Schools and has assisted in culminating a multimillion dollar grant to improve the environmental graphics of the schools. Working with Fortune 500 companies she has played an intricate role in the invention of many consumer products: the Kodak Disc Camera; Max-Pax coffee filter rings; Thick and Frosty; the clam shell chair by Steelcase; and Uniforns for the Osaka Worlds Fair in Japan. Currently her personal work focuses on digital art.
nlstrube@vcu.edu Pollak 212, 804 828 8673 v
Sandy Wheeler
Assistant Professor / MFA Virginia Commonwealth University
Sandy Wheeler spent six years working as a graphic designer and project manager for Main Street Design, Inc., an exhibition design firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts. During this time she participated in the development and design of interpretive exhibits for the Smithsonian Institution, their traveling exhibition service, the US National Park Service, the Maritime Museum of Monterey, and the state of New Mexico’s Office of Cultural Affairs. The firm was honored in 1996 with the American Zoo and Aquarium Association’s top Exhibit Award for Think Tank, an exhibition on the evolution and biology of the thinking, which was designed for the National Zoological Park in Washington, DC and a 1997 Merit Award from the American Association for State and Local History for the Boston Land & Manufacturing Company Store at the Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area near Cleveland, Ohio. Other significant exhibitions include: Altered States: Alcohol and Other Drugs in America, Strong Museum, Rochester, New York; Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Cape Cod, Massachusetts; Wade in the Water: African-American Sacred Music Traditions, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service.
sawheele@vcu.edu Pollak 332, 804 828 8674 v
Matthew Woolman
Department Chair / Associate Professor / MBA + MFA Virginia Commonwealth University
Matt Woolman is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Graphic Design Program, where he teaches courses in sequential design; design theory, strategy and management; and typography. He has produced 7 books, most of which have been best sellers in their trade and received awards from Print Magazine, AIGA and Art Director's Club. His most recent books, Motion Design and Type in Motion 2, were released in 2005. Matt's art and design works have been reproduced in How magazine, Étapes Graphiques, Print, Graphis, and in several books. His work has been exhibited internationally and included in private collections. Matt has MFA and MBA degrees from VCU, and a BA degree from Oberlin College. Matt also is Founder and Principal of PLAID Studios (www.plaidstudios.com), an intermedia design, development and production company where he exercises both his left and right brain.
mwoolman@vcu.edu Pollak 332, 804 828 7329 v
EMERITUS FACULTY
David Colley
Associate Professor / MFA University of Illinois
David Colley attended Columbia University, New York, MA in Art History 1963; University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, MFA in Graphic Design 1969 and at University of California at Santa Cruz and at Harvard University, Cambridge. He also worked with artist-musician John Cage, and with photographer Ansel Adams. He has designed for the Container Corporation of America (Chicago), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge), and for JC Penney (New York). Poster design clients include the Chicago Symphony and Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), Metropolitan Opera, Joffrey Ballet (New York), Richmond Symphony and Colonial Williamsburg. He has taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ohio State University and at the Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology and has lectured at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Professor Colley’s work has appeared in many publications and is in many international museums including the Museum of Modern Art (New York) Muse des Arts Decoritif au Louvre (Paris) and in the Geberkust Museum (Munich). He became an associate professor at VCU in 1995.
jdcolley@vcu.edu Pollak 502, 804 828 7919 v
Ben Day
Professor / MFA Louisiana Tech University
Benjamin Day is co-author with Robert Carter and Philip Meggs of Typographic Design: Form and Communication. He is widely recognized by educators in the field for his skill in working with students and his well-formulated pedagogy. As a result he is in constant demand as a lecturer and conductor of workshops around the country. In recent years, he has conducted design workshops for students at American University, Arizona State University, University of Cincinnati, Ohio University, the University of Tennessee, California State University, the Ringling School of Art and Design, and in London, England. He has been elected into Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, and his professional work has appeared in exhibitions in Boston, New Orleans, and New York.
brday@vcu.edu Pollak 508, 804 828 7037 v
IN MEMORIUM :
Richard Carlyon
Phil Meggs
Akira Ouchi