Technology in Graphic
Design Education: New Tools for Familiar Needs
Jennifer Smith
Like many other fields, graphic design has been changed dramatically by technology. Where does this leave the designer and the design educator at the turn of the century? Has the designer's task been fundamentally altered? Design instructors Jeffrey Morin and Hillary Warren of UW-Stevens Point and John Rieben of UW-Madison shed light on this topic. (Dec. 99)
Integrating Technology
into a Problem-Solving Curriculum
Jeffrey Morin
Professor of Art and Design, UW-Stevens Point
In a Teaching Scholars Forum contribution, Morin, a graphic designer for over twenty years, describes the pedagogical issues facing design educators today and makes a compelling appeal for letting aesthetics drive technical choices, not vice-versa. (Dec. 99)
Fusing the Arts with
New Technologies: UW-Madison's Interarts and Technology Program
Jennifer Smith
Never heard of UW-Madison's Interarts and Technology program? Here's your chance. Read about how this innovative program founded in 1990 combines technological experimentation with dance, music, art, theater, and aesthetic theory. (Dec. 99) (Also see article below.)
I, a Tech: A Graduate's
Reflection on the Interarts and Technology Program
Jeffrey Gray Miller
Read one IATECH alum's personal and creative reflection on the Interarts curriculum, the role of the arts in a high-tech society, and the challenge of keeping a human face on technological advancement. Writes Miller, "Technology does not create itself yet. Somewhere, behind every blinking light and noisome beep and smooth metal casing, there is a flesh-and-blood hand much like your own. That is the task of IATECH: to find the human face of technology..." (Dec. 99) (Also see article above.)
New LTDC Logo Designed
by UW-Stevens Point Students
Jennifer Smith
See the Learning Technology Development Council's newly redesigned logo! This fun design is the work of three graphic design students, Theresa Krause, Jon Tereba, and Jessie Zinda, all from Asst. Prof. Hillary Warren's class. Read about how the logo was selected and what students learned in the process. (Dec. 99)
Printmaking
On Line
Lisa A. Moline
Fine Arts Department, UW-Milwaukee
Three members of the UWM art department faculty are developing "Printmaking on-line" (POL), a "virtual texbook" of printmaking techniques on the Web. Detailed information in multimedia format (text, video, images) of techniques and demonstrations that are presented in class but not readily available in traditional textbooks, would be made easily accessible to students outside of class.