GRAPHIC DESIGN AT LOYOLA UNIVERSITY NEW ORLEANS
Starting in the summer of 2023, I made a bold decision to leave my life in St. Louis and start anew in New Orleans. The Design Department is both an analog and digital melting pot of talent and camaraderie that picks up where I left off in St. Louis. The program embraces traditional and contemporary design methodologies and pushes the boundaries of human interactions and digital experiences. I’m currently on a tenure-track journey to help make the program bigger and better. I’m constantly influenced by this city and its surroundings and can see its reflections in our program and the work our Loyola community is doing. I think you’ll agree that we’re on the right track.
Projects posted in chronological order starting with the most recent.
I’m continually influenced by color and the process of iterating. DoubleSpace Gallery is an identity I created for the Design Department. Im choosing colors I see all around me.
There’s only so many filters a design guy can make. But I’ll keep making more.
If it’s one thing this town is known for, it’s how to throw one hellavu parade. Mardi Gras 2024 was no exception. Six weeks long and over 70 to choose from, it’s a spectacle like no other. And that’s not necessarily a compliment! (I purposely didn’t post the trash photos—the ones where city crews scour the streets every night with water and haul off literally thousands of pounds of crap to some mysterious landfill. If only birds and fish could embrace the beads in a more sustainable way).
The end of the fall semester means Design Showcase is happening, a show-and-tell open house of every design course and student pin-ups for all to see. My Typography 2 and Collage Design classes did not disappoint. Super proud of what they’ve accomplished and look forward to next Showcase.
The School of Communications & Design hosts these incredibly immersive workshops for high school students throughout the region. It’s branded as FRIYAY (they’re only held on Fridays) and is becoming more popular every semester. This particular workshop is lead by the one and only Karoline Schleh who teaches our drawing, printmaking, and book arts courses. I asked to her to print on some old advertising pages from Life magazine—one particular page was so old, it disintegrated on the press. Cool!
Makers Day #2 / Silkscreen. It was meant to be a t-shirt making session… I went rogue and started printing on whatever else I could find. Thanks, Matt Normand.
For some reason, I have this fascination with digitizing my face and experimenting with color, pattern, and texture. Hidden meaning? Blame it on Covid / online learning.
To get to know our colleagues better, we created MAKERS DAY events where we learn and play with different mediums. This particular event focused on Risography. Each of us made a funny face, digitized it, and then added our own personal design. We kept overprinting different colors and patterns. (Erin Kim got to have some fun, too!)
Daniela Marx is chair of our Design Department and one amazing designer. She spent over two years designing and producing her one-woman show, Wonderful is Now. It’s quite possibly one of the most visually rich experiences I’ve witnessed and a great amalgamation of Loyola Design. What an incredible way to kick off the Fall 2023 semester.
In the Fall of 2023, I taught a collage design course for the very first time! I had part of the summer to delve into research, buy and read books, collect examples, and experiment on my own. This particular exercise will go down as one of my all-time favorites—weave and replace collage. I make stuff up as I go along.
Every Wednesday evening the Design Department hosts Forum, an opportunity for faculty and students to engage with guest speakers, participate in workshops, learn from and be inspired by each other, and connect outside of the traditional classroom. This particular workshop focused on creating modular letterform using traditional methods.