Roman Jaster is a graphic designer working in Los Angeles. He is the co-founder of the design studio Yay Brigade. His work is focused on web design and development, as well as print design, often for cultural organizations and artists. Roman graduated from the CalArts graphic design program in 2007 where he now teaches web design classes. He also created two courses about User Experience for the Coursera online learning platform. Roman finds delight in baking hearty loaves of bread, contemplating the etymology of English and German words, and finding a copy of the Los Angeles Times in front of his dwelling every morning.

Link to Roman’s website: https://yaybrigade.com

The Internal Expression of our Physical Narrative: How Design Lives in the Human Body

Melanie Weller is the world’s leading expert in Archetypal Anatomy, leveraging story and symbolism for physical health. With an extensive background in treating patients no one else could help, she now focuses on mitigating burnout and optimizing performance in entertainers, athletes, and medical professionals. She is a Physical Therapist, Board-Certified Orthopedic Clinical Specialist, Certified Athletic Trainer, and Certified Exercise Expert for Aging Adults.

Katie Schexnayder Lynn is a designer, wife, and mother living in New Orleans. After graduating from Loyola, she began her tenure at Scriptura where she enjoys working with shop dogs, drinking coffee, and designing pretty things.

Deborah Reid is an artist, practicing attorney and creator of Law: Artfully Explained Seminars. She is passionate about educating fellow creative about areas of law that impact their careers. Deborah is a co-author of the upcoming tome The Fair Use Atlas: An illustrated guide to Copyright Law, the Fair Use Doctrine + the Visual Arts. Her talk, Fair Use in 9 Easy Pieces is an illustrated, accessible overview of the fair use doctrine.

Steven Pierre is a designer and artist who lives and works in New Orleans. Currently, he employs his print, interactive and management experience as the Multimedia Designer Developer for Louisiana’s largest medical malpractice insurance company.
Revealing the opportunities for design across various industries has been the most rewarding achievement of Steven’s career. He has directed the branding and interactive design of notable transportation and infrastructure projects for the State of Louisiana and the City of New Orleans. Steven has also had lead roles designing in the aerospace, healthcare and collegiate sports sectors. Inspired by innovation, Steven’s purpose is to fuse art, messaging and technology to create communication solutions that balance form and function. He utilizes his passion for web technologies in his interactive, user experience and e-Learning design and development. Steven’s goal is to continue redefining the applications of visual design. Advocating the designer’s purpose and role as a problem solver.

The Motion Show is the end of the year viewing of the final projects created by students in Motion 1, 2, and 3. Friends, family, and the public are welcome to join us for an evening of motion graphics and visual storytelling.

To see past projects, go to https://www.loyoladesign.com/motion-design

Keynote Speech, LOST: A Wayfinding Tale.

As professionals and as creatives, the Castros have found how common the feeling of being washed ashore is throughout ones life / career. It happens in both big ways and small ways, of course. 

The talk uses examples in their recent(ish) past of times when they felt this most profoundly. 

It takes the psychology of being lost and makes parallels of literally being lost and metaphorically being lost. It then uses methods people employ to get unlost - some work and some don't.

In teaching at MIAD, they have found these tips and strategies quite helpful as well as being helpful for younger folks to simply know that lost feeling is common at all ages and it doesn't make them a failure.

Tasheka Arceneaux Sutton is an Associate Professor of Graphic Design at Southeastern Louisiana University. She earned an MFA in Graphic Design from California Institute of the Arts, where she also worked as an in-house designer for several years. For the past ten years, she has been the principle of Blacvoice Graphic Design studio, that specializes in branding, electronic media, identity, Illustration, print, and publication design; providing design services for educational institutions, non-profit organizations, and small business. She has done work for Eric Own Moss Architects, the Museum of Contemporary Arts (MOCA), HarperCollins, Loyola University New Orleans, Tulane University and 826 New Orleans.

Tasheka’s personal design work and research focus on the discovery of Black people who have throughout history made significant contributions to the field of graphic design. She's also interested in the visual representation of black people in the media and popular culture, especially through the lens of stereotypes. The use of typography has a strong presence in her work—she is a type enthusiast who enjoys hand-lettering, typesetting and deconstructing type through a combination of analog and digital processes. She has exhibited work locally, nationally and abroad and in 2013, her work was featured in Idea: International Graphic Art and Typography magazine. She is also a faculty in the low-residency MFA program in Graphic Design at Vermont College of Fine Arts.

Abdul Aziz is an activist filmmaker and photographer who is ever present at the country's most important civil rights events. He covered the Ferguson riots and the events at Charlottesville. Aziz hails from the North East, but has been based in New Orleans for over a decade, where he continues to be a watch on the removal of monuments from city centers and other modern social justice events.
 

The Animation Show of Shows is a traveling selection of the year's best animated short films, curated and presented by Acme Filmworks founder, Ron Diamond. It began in 1998 with the aim of showing the most original, funny, intelligent short animated films from all over the world and presenting them at the major animation studios in order to inspire their animators and directors. Since 2007, some of the films are being published on DVDs.

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Justin Shiels received his BFA in Graphic Design from Loyola University New Orleans and his Masters in Arts Administration from the University of New Orleans. He has over 6 years of experience in communications, marketing, and graphic design and has gained professional experience from EC Advertising as an Interactive Designer, Peter A. Mayer Advertising as a Graphic Designer, and the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts as a Communications Specialist. He is also the founder of digital magazine goINVADE.com, an indispensable cultural reference for the indie, creative, and digitally engaged.

Ferguson, a native of New Orleans, attended Art Center College of Design in 1979-1982. After working in NYC as an advertising photographer for seventeen years, Phoebe returned to school to study documentary film in 1999. While at NYU, she returned to New Orleans to make “Member of the Club,” a feature documentary about the rise of New Orleans; black middle class society, which opened at the New Orleans Film Festival in 2008.

In 2003, Phoebe learned that she is the great, great granddaughter of the judge in the landmark civil rights case, Plessy v. Ferguson. After meeting Keith Plessy in 2004, descendant of Homer Plessy , she realized that they shared not only this infamous legacy but a passion for history, art and social justice, as well. Phoebe moved back to New Orleans permanently in 2006 and started the Plessy and Ferguson Foundation in 2009 along with Keith Plessy. The mission of he organization is to teach the history of the case and the importance of organizing against racial oppression, while erecting historical plaques that recognize the contributions of the black community throughout New Orleans.

Phoebe now divides her time between her work at the Foundation and her documentary work through her media company, Bayou and Me Media in New Orleans. Phoebe has two adult children Stuart and Noël Anderson. Noël currently lives in New Orleans and teaches at Loyola University.

Design Museum of Chicago founder and executive director Tanner Woodford demonstrates that design is deeper than aesthetics, drawing from a broad survey of historical and contemporary case studies. He will also share his journey through the process of building a museum from scratch, and introduce the nascent museum’s portfolio, situated within a rich context of Chicago’s design history. 

Skylar Fein was born in Greenwich Village and raised in the Bronx. He has had many careers including teaching nonviolent resistance under the umbrella of the Quakers, working for a gay film festival in Seattle, stringing for The New York Times and as pre-med student at University of New Orleans where he moved one week before Hurricane Katrina hit.

In the wreckage of New Orleans, Fein found his new calling as an artist, experimenting with color and composition of the detritus of Katrina. His work soon became known for its pop sensibility as well as its hard-nosed politics. After a few starring roles in group shows, he had his first solo show in May 2008 at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery in New Orleans.

Tobias Arturi is a Northeastern filmmaker and motion designer who works commercially and in documentary film who has put down roots in the South. He balances his time between working for commercial clients and social justice projects.

A native of Austin, Texas, Chris attended Tulane University of Louisiana in New Orleans from 2012 to 2017, when he graduated with degrees in architecture and political science. Chris works to facilitate critical processes to question systems of social relations, particularly those upholding hierarchies of race, class, gender and sexual orientation as facilitator of JAWS 2. As a member of the Paper Monuments team, Chris works to amplify the stories that make New Orleans. Through the Freedom School of Design, Chris conducts advocacy, research and co-design projects which aim to engage racialized cultural and political spaces through an antiracist, intersectionally feminist lens. Chris is currently pursuing architectural licensure as a designer with Wisznia Architecture+Development in New Orleans, LA.

Harriet Booker is an acclaimed illustrator who has shown her work on several continents and is the recipient of awards like the UNO Department of Fine Arts Overall Academic Excellence Award, The Gilman Scholarship, and The Royal Drawing School Residency Dumfires House. Burbeck's work is largely pen, ink, and watercolor, but she also works with oil on canvas and other mediums. Her work is narrative and whimsical, often including interesting graphic elements or subtle jokes. 

Brenden Gordon is an industrial designer with a social justice bend. He looks for projects that solve problems for disenfranchised communities. His interest in helping others is related to his passion in disaster relief work, which he incorporates into his work with every opportunity. Gordon grew up as one of five in rural Vermont. He studied at Rochester Institute of technology and today he lives and works in New Orleans.

Born in the Midwest, Max grew up in the rug business, cleaning and repairing rugs at his family's gallery. Before coming to Kush Rugs he studied Graphic Design at Loyola University New Orleans. His designs are informed by traditional Persian/Armenian rugs he saw while working in his grandfather's shop, in conversation with modern methods and contemporary art.

Summer is a UI/UX designer, working to problem solve for app creation. She uses user information to design interactive experiences for clients like Zatarans, Tulane, Go NOLA, and the New Orleans advocate. 

Tuan Phan is Graphic Design Faculty at St. Edwards University in Texas. He has his MFA in Graphic Design from the California Institute of the Arts. Tuan is an "off-time semi-socio-political graphical activist [and a] full-time graphic design teacher". 

The importance of being strategic before being tactical.

John Pucci will discuss the core concepts of strategic design thinking and illustrate methods UX designers can use to gain empathy with the user, create project clarity and attain alignment with internal and external stakeholders.

Rachel Guillot has has worked as the graphic designer for Dom Lewis, professional tricker and tumbler, since he moved to New Orleans in the beginning of 2017. She is responsible for designing all of Dom's clothing and brand materials. Her portfolio is extensive, working with big companies such as Big World, the New Orleans Pelicans, and Reginelli's Pizzeria. Rachel holds a Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Design with a minor in Business from Loyola University New Orleans. Rachel lives in New Orleans. 

Zack Smith is a lifestyle branding and commercial photographer that has been involved in the social, musical and cultural landscapes of Louisiana for the past 20 years. As both a musician, artist, and storyteller, Smith believes that the world gets smaller as we celebrate our similarities and connect through our traditions and stories. As a producer Zack Smith has helped create powerful photography branding campaigns for Brand USA, New Orleans Tourism and Marketing, New Orleans Convention and Visitors Bureau, CHASE Bank, LSU Health, and many more.

Born 1958 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of a NASA engineer. He studied architecture at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York and at the Architectural Association, London, England, where he was discovered by Zaha Hadid. After completing his studies he spent the next ten years as head of design with her. In 1991 Wolfson established his own studio and has worked throughout Europe and the USA on residential interiors and functional art pieces shown at leading international art and design exhibitions, galleries, and public venues.

The Design Department is holding a Faculty Show that focuses on the process of design as the common thread between projects. This is the first department show!

The show was designed and curated by Visiting Professor, Marianna Mezhibovskaya. 

Each year the Design Department holds the Motion Show to feature and celebrate works in the field of motion graphics by students take Motion I + Motion II. The Motion II students have created projects about different legends from all of time and earth.

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