Peter+Beaugard


 * CS3. Peter Beaugard ** – (Tech Panel I) //Using Graphic Design Methods & Interactive Tools to Encourage Play in Online Learning;//

May 27 Friday 10:45-12:15 PM HM 150

This study explores emerging graphic design tools and media for online learning through projects created for the Detroit Public Schools by students that include multi-sensory attributes and/or interactive narrative structures. By revisiting graphic design quality, multi-sensory variety and narrative structure of teaching/ learning delivery methods instructors can increase student engagement. Affiliation/Bio: Lawrence Tech, Assistant Professor, pbeaugard@ltu.edu. Peter Beaugard received a Master of Fine Arts from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art. He is an assistant professor of graphic design and digital arts at Lawrence Technological University in Southfield, MI. His creative work revolves around an analysis of the narrative structures in art and design. He is intrigued with the “kitschification” of culture as one symptom of the postmodern condition. His works use digital fabrication and other methods indicative of industry to create whimsical compositions about sensory overload and visual saturation. He recently co-curated a show entitled The Conceptual City at Shanghai University for Engineering (SUSE) in Shanghai, China. Last March, New Americanisms, a solo show of his work, opened at Gallery DRWR in New York, NY. He has lectured on Graphic Design for Online Education, digital fabrication in art and design and the contemporary collapse of boundaries between art and design in the United States and Canada. He currently maintains a freelance practice that includes clients such as Holiday Inn Express, Symantec, and Whole Foods.