Join us for our Spring 2023 Designer Speaker series. These online presentations highlight the work of artists, designers, activists, writers, and educators now teaching for the Graphic Design Department at ArtCenter College of Design.
CHERYL MILLER
Thursday, February 9th @ 1–2 pm (PDT)
Dr. Cheryl D. Miller is recognized for her outsized influence within the graphic design profession to end the marginalization of BIPOC designers through her civil rights activism, industry exposé trade writing, research rigor, and archival vision. Miller is a national leader of minority rights, gender, race diversity, equality, equity, and inclusion advocacy in graphic design. She is founder of the former Cheryl D. Miller Design, Inc., NYC, a social impact design firm; she is a designer, author, educator, trade writer for PRINT Magazine and Communication Arts Magazine, and theologian. She is a decolonizing design historian.
JIMENA GAMIO
Thursday, February 16th @ 1–2 pm (PDT)
Jimena Gamio is a Los Angeles-based graphic designer originally from Lima, Peru. She graduated with a BFA in Graphic Design from ArtCenter College of Design, where she currently teaches typography at the graduate level. Her design practice spans cultural and commercial clients, focusing on identity systems, editorial design, and typography. Gamio aims for her work to be as distinctive and diverse as her clients. She approaches every project with a playful and open mindset. Past and current clients include Los Angeles Public Library, Ace Hotel, Good Inc., High Tide, Ella, Chandelier Creative, Levi’s, The Strokes, Nike, Jordan, Outset, and Feminist Center for Creative Work.
SIYUN OH
Thursday, February 23rd @ 1–2 pm (PDT)
Siyun Oh is an independent graphic designer and art director who is passionate about working with multiple scales of typography and image. Her applied arts and graphic design background influence how she envisions the translation from two-dimensional graphics into three-dimensional spaces through materiality and scale. Her work encompasses Art Direction, Visual Identity Systems, Exhibition Design, Signage and Wayfinding. In addition to her own practice and ongoing collaborations with independent architects and agencies, she was a Senior Designer at IN-FO.CO, where she led the exhibition graphics for the Permanent exhibition at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. Prior to that, she worked with Gensler, Pentagram, and MoMA.
