Teaching

Winter 2024

Interactive Media: Web at OCAD University

Learn how to weave a range of online technologies into engaging interactive experiences. In this course, students will learn the basics of web technologies that are fundamental to building an online presence for any design project. Students will learn how to identify the current technologies underlying social media interfaces, mobile web applications that rely on browsers and apps. You will also gain an understanding of the fundamentals of markup languages (HTML, XML) as well as formatting (CSS) and client-side programming (JS). These basic skills will be contextualized within a basic overview of interface design. With the knowledge built in this course students will begin to understand how to create responsive web-based projects that adapt to different devices and develop strategies for creating screen-based interfaces.

Winter 2024

Design Process 2 at OCAD University

Design Process 2 further develops the foundational activities, languages, tools, and techniques from Design Process 1 by engaging in practices related to form/space, information analysis, and sequential narrative. Projects require considerations of visual communication as a social and cultural activity that reflects and responds to the past, the present, and to future contexts. Process-based learning uses technical and analytical methods necessary for more independent learning in the upper years. Competences in three-dimensional, time-based, and print media are explored through a series of investigations that incorporate visual form, typography, colour, image, student intent, and reflective writing components to create purposeful work.

Winter 2024

Typography at The Chang School of Continuing Education, Toronto Metropolitan University

The course explores the relationships between type designers, type foundries and end users. This course concentrates on typographic history and classification, as well as the creation, marketing and use of typefaces in professional applications for both printed and non-printed output. Students also learn how typographic choices made by the designer can enhance or reduce the appeal and accessibility of a document. Editing and proofreading of documents is also emphasized.

Fall 2023

Interactive Media: Web at OCAD University

Learn how to weave a range of online technologies into engaging interactive experiences. In this course, students will learn the basics of web technologies that are fundamental to building an online presence for any design project. Students will learn how to identify the current technologies underlying social media interfaces, mobile web applications that rely on browsers and apps. You will also gain an understanding of the fundamentals of markup languages (HTML, XML) as well as formatting (CSS) and client-side programming (JS). These basic skills will be contextualized within a basic overview of interface design. With the knowledge built in this course students will begin to understand how to create responsive web-based projects that adapt to different devices and develop strategies for creating screen-based interfaces.

Winter 2023

Design Process 2 at OCAD University

Design Process 2 further develops the foundational activities, languages, tools, and techniques from Design Process 1 by engaging in practices related to form/space, information analysis, and sequential narrative. Projects require considerations of visual communication as a social and cultural activity that reflects and responds to the past, the present, and to future contexts. Process-based learning uses technical and analytical methods necessary for more independent learning in the upper years. Competences in three-dimensional, time-based, and print media are explored through a series of investigations that incorporate visual form, typography, colour, image, student intent, and reflective writing components to create purposeful work.

Fall 2022

Graphic Design 3 at OCAD University

Graphic Design 3 builds upon the skill sets and knowledges developed in first and second year to include the processes and practices of information visualization. Given the proliferation and variety of data available, the development and building upon of numeracy, data collection, analysis, and interpretation skills are considered alongside varied theories relevant to communication in the information age. The exploration of visualization methods and media-from charts to more complex and interactive forms- foster a critical approach to visualization, highlighting its power to inform and persuade.

Spring 2022

Interactive Media: Web at OCAD University

Learn how to weave a range of online technologies into engaging interactive experiences. In this course, students will learn the basics of web technologies that are fundamental to building an online presence for any design project. Students will learn how to identify the current technologies underlying social media interfaces, mobile web applications that rely on browsers and apps. You will also gain an understanding of the fundamentals of markup languages (HTML, XML) as well as formatting (CSS) and client-side programming (JS). These basic skills will be contextualized within a basic overview of interface design. With the knowledge built in this course students will begin to understand how to create responsive web-based projects that adapt to different devices and develop strategies for creating screen-based interfaces.

Winter 2022

Design Process 2 at OCAD University

Selected Student Work from Design Process 2
Year End Hot Mess Show 2022
OCAD University

Design Process 2 further develops the foundational activities, languages, tools, and techniques from Design Process 1 by engaging in practices related to form/space, information analysis, and sequential narrative. Projects require considerations of visual communication as a social and cultural activity that reflects and responds to the past, the present, and to future contexts. Process-based learning uses technical and analytical methods necessary for more independent learning in the upper years. Competences in three-dimensional, time-based, and print media are explored through a series of investigations that incorporate visual form, typography, colour, image, student intent, and reflective writing components to create purposeful work.

Spring 2021

Interactive Media: Web at OCAD University

Learn how to weave a range of online technologies into engaging interactive experiences. In this course, students will learn the basics of web technologies that are fundamental to building an online presence for any design project. Students will learn how to identify the current technologies underlying social media interfaces, mobile web applications that rely on browsers and apps. You will also gain an understanding of the fundamentals of markup languages (HTML, XML) as well as formatting (CSS) and client-side programming (JS). These basic skills will be contextualized within a basic overview of interface design. With the knowledge built in this course students will begin to understand how to create responsive web-based projects that adapt to different devices and develop strategies for creating screen-based interfaces.

Fall 2018

Generative Type Poster in Processing at OCAD University

Summer 2017

How to Make a GIF at Eva's Print Shop

Summer 2017

Designing a 3-piece Identity Package at Eva's Print Shop

Fall 2015

Intro to Generative Typography in Processing at The Graphical Web Conference

Learning computer programming allow designers to experiment with new ways of creating content. This workshop is tailored to designers that want to go beyond using proprietary software as a means for content creation. You will learn the basics of Processing by starting with drawing a circle to the screen and working your way up to creating expressive typographic forms. You will learn how to export your final piece for print and for motion.