Teaching + tours
Tours
- Lost Streams of D.C.: Lower Rock Creek, A Bike Tour, June 2025
- Lost Streams of D.C.: Slash Run, A Walking Tour, Dec. 2024
- Lost Streams of D.C.: A Preview Bike Tour, Nov. 2021
Classes at American University
I taught at American University from 2015 through 2023.
- Typography I, GDES-210, fall 2023
- Digital and Emerging Media Design I, GDES-220, fall 2023
- Digital and Emerging Media Design II, GDES-315, fall 2023
- Design for Understanding, GDES-270, spring 2023
- Digital and Emerging Media Design II, GDES-315, spring 2023
- Data Visualization and Information Design, GDES-360, spring 2023
- Design for Understanding, GDES-270, fall 2022
- Digital and Emerging Media Design II, GDES-315, fall 2022
- Design Capstone, GDES-420, spring 2022
- Data Visualization and Information Design, GDES-360, spring 2022
- Design for Understanding, GDES-270, spring 2022
- Digital and Emerging Media Design II, GDES-315, fall 2021
- Design for Understanding, GDES-270, fall 2021
- Data Visualization and Information Design, GDES-360, spring 2021
- Design for Understanding, GDES-270, spring 2021
- Design for Understanding, GDES-270, fall 2020
- Digital and Emerging Media Design I, GDES-220, fall 2020
- Design for Understanding, GDES-270, spring 2020
- Data Visualization and Information Design, GDES-396, spring 2020
- Digital & Emerging Media Design I, GDES-220, fall 2019
- Visual Communication Design, GDES-200, fall 2019
- Design for Understanding, GDES-270, fall 2019
- Digital & Emerging Media Design I, GDES-220, spring 2019
- Digital & Emerging Media Design II, GDES-315, spring 2019
- Data Visualization and Information Design, GDES-396, spring 2019
- Visual Communication Design, GDES-200, fall 2018
- Digital & Emerging Media Design I, GDES-220, fall 2018
- Digital & Emerging Media Design I, GDES-220, spring 2018
- Digital & Emerging Media Design II, GDES-315, spring 2018
- Visual Communication Design, GDES-200, fall 2017
- Digital & Emerging Media Design I, GDES-220, fall 2017
- Digital & Emerging Media Design II, GDES-315, fall 2017
- Digital & Emerging Media Design I, GDES-220, spring 2017
- Digital & Emerging Media Design II, GDES-315, spring 2017
- Interactive Experience Design: Senior Projects, GDES-425, spring 2017
- Digital & Emerging Media Design I, GDES-220, fall 2016
(Monday/Wednesday and Tuesday/Friday) - Digital & Emerging Media Design I, GDES-220, spring 2016
- Digital & Emerging Media Design II, GDES-315, spring 2016
- Visual Communication Design, GDES-200, spring 2016
- Digital & Emerging Media Design I, GDES-220, fall 2015
- Visual Communication Design, GDES-200, fall 2015
Classes at the Corcoran College of Art and Design
I taught at the Corcoran from 2010 through 2014.
- Junior Studio, fall 2014
- Design for Mobile Devices, fall 2014
- Web I, spring 2014
- Junior Studio, fall 2013
- Design for Mobile Devices, fall 2013
- Interactive Web Design I, spring 2013
- Interaction Design, spring 2013
- Design for Mobile Devices, fall 2012
- Junior Studio, fall 2012
Knowledge Commons DC
Tours with KCDC:
- SE/SW DC Bike Tour, KCDC, Summer 2015 🔗
- Lettering and Vintage Signage Tour, KCDC, September 2014 🔗
- Hidden Rivers and Lost Neighborhoods, a Tour by Bicycle 🔗, June 2013
- The Island: A Bike Tour of Industrial Sites, Lost Canals, and Neighborhoods in SE/SW 🔗, Sept. 2013 (with Elena Goukassian)
- Liquid Assets Bike Tour: Lost Streams and the Evolving City 🔗, May 2014
- Production, Distribution, and Repair: a Bike Tour of DC’s Industrial Past 🔗, June 2013 (with Elena Goukassian)
My KCDC classes usually explore unconventional questions and new approaches:
- Material Typography, KCDC, February 2015
- Faster, Stronger, Fewer Semicolons! Build a Website With Jekyll 🔗, Jan. 2014
- Bookbinding! 🔗, Sept. 2013
- Tradecraft and Countersurveillance for the Amateur 🔗, July 2013
- Experiments in Typography 🔗, Jan. 2013
- Cyanotype Printing 🔗, Jan. 2013
- InDesign 101, June 2012
Resources and writing
- Design for interaction (articles, references, and links for students)