- Sophomore Graphic Design (Fall)
- Sophomore Graphic Design (Spring)
- Senior Thesis Studio
- Branding
- Visual Systems
- Junior Graphic Design Studio
- Junior Typography
- Junior Typography: Motion + Interactivity
- Graduate Typography II
- Graduate Graphic Design Theory II
- Directed Studies
- Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP)
2019–2025
Boston University Graphic Design BFA ‘25
My studio and curatorial practice and research inform my teaching and reflect my belief that design is not only about making, but also about questioning, reflecting, and learning within community. My pedagogy is responsive to contemporary discourse, emerging technologies, and the evolving needs of my students.
My approach centers on mentorship, connecting the classroom to the professional world, and continually refining my teaching through reflection and unlearning. Driven by language, identity, and collaboration, my work demonstrates how design can provoke critical reflection, foster dialogue, and make meaningful change. Beyond teaching technical skills, I aim to cultivate critical awareness, empowering students to leverage design as a tool for inclusivity and socially engaged practice.
Mentorship and connecting students to the professional world are central to my approach as an educator, where I foster interdisciplinary thinking, adaptability, and brave making, helping students contextualize their work.
Sophomore Graphic Design Studio (Fall)
Students collect found letterforms as inspiration to create new typographic forms through analog and digital processes, emphasizing experimentation and iteration. The final outcome is presented as an A–Z accordion book, forming a sequence that highlights process and visual and conceptual relationships.
Scarlett Cain (BFA ‘28)
Fall 2025
Students investigate how to translate observed objects into graphic form by creating object and shape collections, experimenting with 2D compositions that demonstrate principles of design, and ultimately scaling their work into a large poster integrating form and typography.Bio-circuitry
Emily Parsons (BFA ‘28)
Fall 2025
Shoals
Clara Lewis (BFA ‘27)
Fall 2024
Picnic
Cameron Dickson (BFA ‘28)
Fall 2024
Kaitlyn Deng (BFA ‘28)
Fall 2025
Project: Packaging Emotions
Students are assigned a trait, emotion or value to expand into a conceptual packaging design. Through research, iteration, and prototyping, they translate abstract qualities into form, material, and visual language, creating a packaging concept that embodies their word.
Kate Saluti (BFA ‘28)
Fall 2025
Sophomore Graphic Design Studio (Spring)
Project: Virtual Exhibition
During COVID-19, students developed a collaborative virtual studio and online exhibition to showcase a curated selection of semester projects. The platform created space to share process, research, and outcomes in an open, unpolished format, fostering community, transparency, and connection while redefining how design work could be created and experienced during isolation.
Spring 2020
Spring 2020
Project: Broadside
Students designed broadsides—functioning as both poster and booklet—based on self-selected research topics. The booklet format conveyed a sequential narrative, while the expanded poster presented a cohesive visual language that synthesized key ideas.
Spring 2020
Project: Symbol
Students selected an urgent message (warning, fact or directive) and translated it into a set of 3–5 symbols. Using a grid-based square composition, they developed an animation that explored pacing, sequence, and transition to communicate their message to an intended audience.
Senior Thesis Studio
Project: Thesis Show
I guide students in curating, designing, and producing their thesis exhibition identity and spatial experience. Through critiques and iterative development, I help them develop cohesive visual systems, exhibition materials, and presentations, presenting their culminating work in a unified and engaging group exhibition.
Spring 2024
Spring 2021
Spring 2021
Project: BFA Thesis Show Branding
I work with a group of students to advise on developing the brand identity for the overall BFA Thesis Show, encompassing Painting, Graphic Design, Printmaking, and Sculpture, guiding them from concept to production.
Students author, design, and produce a thesis book that synethesizes their final thesis projects including their thesis statement, research, essay, experiments, interview(s), influences, references, and past works.
Vincent Liu (BFA ‘24)
Spring 2024
Angela Lian (BFA ‘21)
Spring 2021
Eva Brown (BFA ‘24)
Spring 2024
Branding
Lauren Greenblatt (MFA ‘25)
Fall 2024
Students select an art entity to rebrand, develop a new logo, and expand the concept into a comprehensive brand identity system.
Madison Hoppler (MFA ‘26)
Fall 2025
Students receive a research topic to explore and expand upon in order to develop and define their own brand. The project focused on building a strong brand identity through storytelling and world-building.
Fall 2024
As the host of Design Incubation Colloquium 11.1 at Boston University, I worked with my Branding class BFA and MFA students to design the visual identity, website, print collateral, digital assets, and swag shaping the event and communications to create a lively atmosphere.
Visual Systems
Yunxi (Lucy) Ye (MFA ‘26)
Spring 2025
Project: Multilingual Systems
Students imagine a language system that functions as a multilingual form understood by two or more language audiences and develop a system integrating English with another language, considering aesthetic and functional elements while fostering cross-cultural understanding.
Sheryl Peng (BFA ‘25)
Spring 2025
Project: Performative Bodies
Students design a spatial program that invites audiences to learn about an overlooked topic through embodied participation, creating a performative system guided by a score or set of instructions and informed by participatory, conditional, and performative design strategies.
Qingyang (Helen) Liu (MFA ‘26)
Spring 2025
Project: Translation for the Senses
Students identify an inherently non-visual system that engages the senses, translate it into graphic form using a self-defined set of rules, and implement the visual system into an experiential medium of their choice.
Junior Graphic Design Studio
Project: The End of Design
Students were encouraged to explore the possibilities and test the limitations of generative AI. They were prompted to explore a topic of their choice and then question, challenge, and define the role of creativity and authorship in the design process when using AI.
✸ Presented at the College Art Association Annual Conference and AIGA DEC Symposium
Leena Jang (BFA ‘24)
Who Am I?
Sarah Nam (BFA ‘24)
Unpopular AI Opinions That You Missed
Vincent Liu (BFA ‘24)
Heartbreak
Yewon Park (BFA ‘24)
Spring 2023
Junior Typography
Studio visit and risograph workshop at Loyal Studio. I hosted a risograph workshop to produce a typographic political calendar in anticipation for the 2019 elections.
Fall 2019
✸ Exhibited in Riso Circles: The World in Halftone, Design Gallery, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA and Boston Art Book Fair
Students develop a typographic identity for a cultural institution or event across print and digital applications.
Boston Art Book Fair
Abby Fenn (BFA ‘21)
Fall 2019
Students worked with the Karl Fortess Audio Archive artist interviews to transcribe and design them into a publication series. Final project was exhibited in the School of Visual Arts library.
Fall 2019
Junior Typography: Motion + Interactivity
Students selected a narrative to tell through a 30-second animation using type. Vincent Liu, Tiffany Taw (BFA ‘24)
Spring 2023
Project: Print to Motion
Students selected their favorite item from The People’s Graphic Design Archive, researched the item, and animated the item to reveal its historical context and meaning. Students analyzed the grid, typography, and imagery from their selections to create storyboards that were developed into looping animations.
Pink Chotikakovit, Goria Huang, Amina Hachimura (BFA ‘25)
Spring 2024
✸ Featured in The People’s Graphic Design Archive
Students created typographic animations buidling off of the Multiple Formats Art Book Fair visual identity. Final animations were projected as signage and wayfinding during the event.Mina Chung, Kexin Zhang, Andreina De La Blanca, Lauren Had, Julia So (BFA ‘23)
Spring 2022
Graduate Typography II
Project: Large Scale TypeStudents study type and its relation to the body and environment through creating large scale type installations.
Spring 2020
Project: Alphabet
Students developed a modular alphabet based on an expected object or grid system.
Spring 2020