Prof. Childers’s Profile
graphic design & typography
My Courses
Graphic Design Principles 2, COMD1200, D142
This course explores creative visual thinking and its importance to communication design. Students will experiment with image-making techniques and learn to use graphic elements to communicate concepts and ideas.
This course addresses the advanced creative and comprehensive study of typographic design principles. Exercises include consideration of hierarchy and design with intensive use of body copy to explore multiple columns and grids and multiple page applications, in the design of table, book, poster, web and motion graphics. Lessons include modes of production, font management and electronic file preparation.
COMD2427 Typographic Design III D215 Fall 18
OER Open Education Resource Advanced typographic design principles. Typographic applications for web design, print and motion graphics are explored, as well as integration of design and production in the laboratory.
Graphic Design 2 COMD 1200•Fall 2017
This course explores creative visual thinking and its importance to communication design. Students will experiment with image-making techniques and learn to use graphic elements to communicate concepts and ideas.
Graphic Design 2 COMD 1200 D150 Prof. Childers
This course explores creative visual thinking and its importance to communication design. Students will experiment with image-making techniques and learn to use graphic elements to communicate concepts and ideas.
My Projects
L4: Living Lab Learning Library
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Living Lab General Education Seminar Spring 2019
This is a collaborative space for use by Living Laboratory General Education Seminar participants. This seminar will concentrate on incorporating the general education outcome of Intercultural Knowledge and Competence into our courses focusing on Kuh’s High Impact Educational Practices, place based learning, open pedagogy and assessment practices.
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Recent Activity
Prof. Childers wrote a new blog post DeKalb Market Hall: Deconstructing aura embedded in the typographic communication of global cultures. in the group L4: Living Lab Learning Library
Prof. Childers joined the group Open Pedagogy on the OpenLab
