Rebecca Tegtmeyer and Marty Maxwell Lane represented the NC State Graphic Design Masters Program at the MFA panel on the last day of the conference. They did incredible.

The presentation, following a format that I do not remember the name, lasted for 10 mins. In that short time, Rebecca and Marty were able to speak about the pedagogical approach of the NC State Curriculum, explain the structure of the program, delve into projects briefings, and they still managed to show 2 fully developed investigations, culminating in the marriage of everything that had been explained before into well executed pieces.


A little bit about studio culture.

Design thinking had to come up.

Cameo appearance to me!

The biggest concept map ever seen by man! Great job Rebecca…

WEEEEEEEE!!!!

Marty brought down the house as she explained her research and development of processes…

…all culminating with the on-line community project from last semester.

YOUR WELCOME, but the thanks really go to you! You represented us in an incredible way!

From October 17th through the 19th a group of us in the Masters Program drove up to Baltimore to attend AIGA‘s Social Studies Education Conference, held at the Maryland Institute College of Art.

It was a great conference on many accounts, but most importantly it gave some of us the opportunity to share with students and academics from other institutions.

Having learned my lesson during the Boston conference (where i did not take my camera), I can now tell a selected visual story of the event. If you are interested for a detailed account, see Louise Sandhaus’ blog where she has some very interesting and detailed notes of many of the sessions, panels, and lectures.

How could anyone not notice the new design building?

The typography session kicked early saturday. Michelle Wong wishes to help students learn typographic skills through the implementation of a plug-in into indesign.

Denise Gonzales-Crisp burned the traditional typographic approach. (the screen almost caught fire)

The conference guest book.

People in the lobby.

Looking in the lobby.

Looking down into the lobby… HI CADY!

The team giving moral support to Deb… Santiago, Cady, Marty and Rebecca.

Go Deb!

Denise and Santiago enjoying the event.