Visual Arts Faculty Directory

 

Concentration: 

Graphics Design

Gerry Beegan

Graphic design

Gerry Beegan is a graphic designer and design historian whose commercial practice has included publications for Penguin Books and Victoria and Albert Museum. He has presented his research on the history of the mass media internationally as digital and performance pieces at venues such as the International Symposium on Electronic Art and the American Institute of Graphic Arts. His writings on design has also appeared internationally in journals and magazines such as dot dot dot and The Journal of Visual Of Visual Culture. His self-initiated works, which often take the designed object and its relationship to language and subjectivity as their focus, have been exhibited in galleries in London and New York.


Jacqueline Thaw

Graphic Design

Jacqueline Thaw is a graphic designer focused on the printed word and design’s role in public life. Her work as an editorial and identity designer in New York City includes four years with the interdisciplinary design consultancy Pentagram. She has taught at the University of Hawaii and the School of Visual Arts and had given talks and workshops at the Rhode Island School of Design, Fordham University, and the national conference of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA). Her work has been recognized by the AIGA, Art Directors Club, Type Directors Club, and AIGA/Honolulu. She is a member of Class Action, a collective that creates design for social change.


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