Graphic Design at Illinois State University

CROSSPLATFORM GRAPHIC DESIGN LECTURE
Designing Collective Spaces for Cross-Cultural Dialogue
Wednesday, February 11
12:30pm to 1:30pm CT

Mary Yang
Assistant Professor of Graphic Design
Boston University
https://mary-yang.com/Home
https://radicalcharacters.org/......
Zoom presentation, email if you would like to join [email protected]......
Mary Y. Yang is a designer and educator based in Boston, MA. She is the co-founder of Radical Characters, an educational and curatorial platform that researches and explores graphic design, typography, and culture through Hanzi (Chinese characters). Yang is an Assistant Professor at Boston University, where she teaches in both the undergraduate and graduate Graphic Design programs. Her research and pedagogical approach examine how language can be used as a tool for multilingual exchange, co-building history, embodied learning, and cultivating spaces for collective knowledge. She is currently the 2025–2026 Artist-Writer-in-Residence at Johns Hopkins University’s University Writing Program.

In addition to her role as an educator, Yang is the founder of Open Rehearsal, a design studio that collaborates with cultural and educational clients on research and projects spanning brand identities, exhibition graphics, book design, environmental graphics, and editorial design. Her work has been recognized by Communication Arts and featured in AIGA, PRINT Magazine, Society of Typographic Arts, Design360°, and Hyperallergic.

Yang holds an MFA in Graphic Design from the Rhode Island School of Design and a BFA in Communication Design from Washington University in St. Louis, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts. She has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design and lectured at the University of Washington. Previously, she has worked on the graphic and brand design team at Victoria’s Secret PINK (NYC), the University of Washington Press (Seattle, WA), and Studio Blue (Chicago, IL).

CROSSPLATFORM GRAPHIC DESIGN SPRING LECTURE SERIES
Monday, February 9, 12:30pm to 1:30pm, University Galleries
The lecture is free and open to all.

Rebecca Tegtmeyer
Associate Professor of Graphic Design
Michigan State University.....
Rebecca Tegtmeyer is an Associate Professor of Graphic Design in the Department of Art, Art History, and Design at Michigan State University. Through her active research, writing, making, and teaching agendas, she investigates the role of a designer and the creative process through a variety of forms. Working both individually and collaboratively, she approaches design as a catalyst in facilitating systems that challenge and inspire. Her solo work examines sewing as a design practice, challenging the technical tools, consumerism, and patriarchal systems in design production. Her research has been presented and published at several international and national venues organized by the highest-ranking organizations in the design field, such as the University and College Designers Association, Cumulus Association, Design Research Society, College Arts Association, Motion Design Education, and AIGA. Rebecca holds a BFA in Visual Communication from the University of Kansas and a Master of Graphic Design (MGD) from NC State University College of Design.

Join us for Design Streak’s Holiday Card Sale!!
All proceeds support the “Best Newcomer Award” in the Student Annual exhibition.
Each card is $5.
Sale starts on Thursday, December 4 from 11:30am—3pm, and Friday, December 5 from 9am — 1 pm outside of room CVA 124 on the first floor.

CrossPlatform Graphic Design Online Lecture

“My Practice: Elevating Marginalized Voices and Telling the Untold Stories: Through Teaching, Creative Activities and Writing.”

Tasheka Arceneaux Sutton
Wednesday, October 1
12:30pm to 1:30pm

Tasheka Arceneaux Sutton is a graphic designer, educator, image-maker, and writer whose career bridges design practice, scholarship, and pedagogy. She is an Associate Professor of Design at The University of Texas at Austin and teaches in the MFA program in graphic design at the Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA). She expands the scope of design history and practice through her teaching, studio practice, and research by centering the voices, stories, and communities that are often omitted.

She is the principal of Blacvoice Design, a studio she founded to deliver creative services that merge cultural insight with design excellence. The studio’s work spans branding, identity systems, electronic media, illustration, and publication design for educational institutions, non-profit organizations, and small businesses. Blacvoice Design reflects her belief in design as a tool of empowerment—one that amplifies underrepresented voices and advances equity through visual communication.

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