Art and Art History

We are thrilled to announce the appointment of Dina Benbrahim as Assistant Professor of Graphic Design and Director of Design Center. "Dina is a Moroccan multidisciplinary creative, educator, organizer, and researcher who uses an intersectional feminist lens to dissent and investigate design ...for visibility, civic action, and social justice with minoritized communities to collectively reimagine equitable futures." Learn more about Dina and her work @dina.benbrahim and @hellodepartures We could not be more excited about Dina's energy and vision for Graphic Design at UConn! ❤️

BFA Opening reception!!

In ART2120 Graphic Design 1 Typography, for their final project students design a book that combines two texts of their choosing: one text must be found on Project Gutenberg, and the other may be freely chosen as a commentary on the first. Cole Heitmann chose the 1923 book “Photographs of Nebulae... & Clusters” by James Edward Keeler, and paired it with passages from Nietzsche’s “Beyond Good & Evil” to make this gorgeous, thoughtful, carefully considered & constructed book. ✨🪐✨🌟

In ART 2110 GD Process & Thinking this fall, these 🖤❕🔳🤍 wallpaper installations 🐼 are developed from individual pieces of wood type printed letterpress, that are then digitized, iterated into figure & ground compositions, & then designed into a series of patterns ...documented in accordion books… and then working in teams, students design a modular wallpaper installation for a specific location. Bishop Basement has never looked so good! 🤍🖤 #graphicdesign #graphicdesigneducation

This semester in Independent Study, @masomasomaso made a beautiful narrative cookbook with recipes, photos, stories, & documents from his Italian father, who served as a naval cook before immigrating to the USA & opening his own restaurant. Belissimo! 💯👍💯🍝🚢

This semester in Independent Study, @nicktardella explored topics in Graphic Design history of interest to him (including photography, Steinlen, the Bauhaus & PoMo) & made this exhibition & box set featuring a poster, playful typeface, & books. 👍💯👍 #graphicdesign ...#graphicdesigneducation #graphicdesignhistory #uconngraphicdesign

We are searching for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Graphic Design! For more information and to apply visit the link in our bio. ❤️

Last UCGD visitor of the trip to @printedmatter_artbookfairs @hlucca so glad everyone is doing so well!!

So great to get a visit from two UCGD alums at #posterperformedinspace @printedmatter_artbookfairs today. Wonderful to see familiar faces and catch up! @samanthaheanue @jayquercia