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As a graphic design student you'll explore a variety of ways in which image and text may be combined to give form to information, responding to the needs of a client and distinct social conditions. Facilities include a digital imaging studio and a spacious general design studio.

The graphic design program helps you become adept at using new technology including digital imaging, hypermedia and interactive environments.

Courses offered:
ART165 Graphic Design for Non-Majors
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ART201 Introduction to Graphic Design
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ART205 Introduction to Graphic Design II
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ART302 Intermediate Graphic Design I
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ART303 Intermediate Graphic Design II
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ART346 Image Making I
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ART348 Intermediate Graphic Design Workshop
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ART460 Advanced Graphic Design
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ART462 Image Making II
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ART464 Advanced Graphic Design Worksop
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Leslie Atzmon [VIEW INFORMATION]  [VIEW GALLERY]   [VIEW BOTH]
Office: 219 Ford
Phone: (734) 487-1268 x 240

Office Hours:

MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT SUN
- 12:30 - 2:00
(by appointment only)
- 8:30 - 9:00 & 2:00-3:30
- 2:00-2:30 & 3:00-3:30
(by appointment only)
- 2:30 - 3:00
- 12:30 - 2:00
(by appointment only)
- 8:30 - 9:00 & 2:00-3:30
- 2:00-2:30 & 3:00-3:30
(by appointment only)
- 2:30 - 3:00
   

Teaching Schedule:

MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT SUN
ART 201 Intro. to Graphic Design
9:00 - 11:50
Ford 228
ART 465 History of Graphic Design
4:00-5:15
Ford 107
ART 462 Image Making II
3:30 - 6:20
Ford 228
ART 201 Intro. to Graphic Design
9:00-11:50
Ford 228
ART 465 History of Graphic Design
4:00 - 5:15
Ford 107
ART 462 Image Making II
3:30 - 6:20
Ford 228
   

Bio:

Leslie Atzmon was born in Detroit, Michigan. She received a BS in Biology and a BFA in Graphic Design from the University of Michigan, a MFA in Graphic Design from Eastern Michigan University, and a PhD in Design History, Middlesex University, London, England. She began teaching at EMU in 1999.

Recent publications, exhibitions and/or presentations:

  • “Mystical Vision: Contemplating the Kabbalistic Corpus.” In Visible Magic: Diagrams in Kabbalah and Jewish Magic, edited by Marla Segol, London: Palgrave, expected spring 2009.

  • Visible Culture: Visual Rhetoric and the Special Eloquence of Design Artifacts, edited by Leslie Atzmon, West Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press, expected fall 2008.

  • “Supernatural Selection: Sydney Sime’s Weird Science,” in Visible Culture: Visual Rhetoric and the Special Eloquence of Design Artifacts, edited by Leslie Atzmon, West Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press, expected fall 2008.

  • “The Menopause Book,” mixed media artists book, in Aging with Attitude, Slusser Gallery, School of Art and Design, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, March 2008.

  • “Winter Scene: Take One,” hand drawn, frame-by-frame animated motion graphic, Eastern Michigan University Art Department Faculty Show, January 2008.

Artist Statement:

Leslie Atzmon’s creative and scholarly work includes graphic design, animation, and artists books, as well as research, writing, and publishing in design history. Atzmon has published articles in the journals Design Issues and Visual Communication. She is currently editing a collection of visual culture essays entitled Visible Culture: Visual Rhetoric and the Special Eloquence of Design Artifacts expected from Parlor Press in late 2008. Another essay that examines the role of diagrams and the Hebrew alphabet in the kabbalah is forthcoming in the collection, Visible Magic: Diagrams in Kabbalah and Jewish Magic, edited by Marla Segol,due out from Palgrave Press in early 2009.

Atzmon has presented her work at the College Art Association conference, the Design History Society conference, at the Modern Language Association conference, at the AIGA Design Education conference, and at the International Conference of Design Studies and Design History. Her principle areas of research interest are Victorian science and late nineteenth-century fantasy imagery, book history, and the history of typography.

Faculty Work:
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Student Work:
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Click on any of the links to the right of a faculty member's name to get more information about that faculty member.

Leslie Atzmon [VIEW INFORMATION]  [VIEW GALLERY]   [VIEW BOTH]
Office: 219 Ford
Phone: (734) 487-1268 x 240

Andrew Maniotes [VIEW INFORMATION]  [VIEW GALLERY]   [VIEW BOTH]
Office: 219 Ford
Phone: (734) 487-1268 x236

Ryan Molloy [VIEW INFORMATION]  [VIEW GALLERY]   [VIEW BOTH]
Office: 224 Ford
Phone: (734) 487-1268 x233



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This page was last updated on April 17, 2008