Barbara Sudick
Barbara Sudick, is the Nierenberg Distinguished Professor of Design in the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University where she teaches collaborative interdisciplinary classes to graduate and post-graduate students in Communication Planning and Information Design (CPID) and Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and undergraduate students in Communication Design (CD) and Industrial Design (ID).
Her current research explores sustainability, a collaborative systems-based discipline. She presently leads the AIGA Center for Sustainable Design Education Committee where she is investigating ways to embed responsible ethics of social, economic, and environmental sustainability in the teaching of design. She is also a member of the national steering committee for AIGA¹s Design Educators Community directing an initiative to develop a code of conduct and ethics for design educators.
Her more than 25 years of professional practice crosses disciplinary boundaries and includes a wide range of clients in both the private and public sectors including; IBM Academic Information Systems, ITT Programming, United Technologies, New Haven Medical Software, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Addison Wesley Longman, Peachpit Press, Taunton Press, The New York Public Library, Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Educational Center for the Arts, Laura Dean Dancers and Musicians, and the Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, and the Yale Repertory Theatre.
She holds an MFA in Graphic Design from Yale University and a BFA in Arts and Crafts from Kent State University. She also studied abroad at the Design Program in Brissago, Switzerland.
Frank Armstrong
Frank Armstrong is a visiting assistant professor in the School of Design, teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in Typography, Interaction and Motion Design.
His research and teaching integrates music, as an acoustic time-space system, with information design and typography. Armstrong's professional work has been published in numerous books and journals, including "Meggs¹ History of Graphic Design" and Rob Carter¹s books "American Typography Today" and "Typographic Design: Form and Communication." His essay "Hearing Type" was published in AIGA's "Loop," "Baseline international typographic journal" and Steven Heller¹s book "The Education of a Typographer." His Kinetic Typography course syllabus and project assignments, coauthored with Barbara Sudick, were published in Steven Heller's book "Teaching Motion Design."
Prior to coming to Carnegie Mellon, Armstrong had 20 years of experience as a design consultant and 15 years of experience as an educator, teaching graphic design and typography courses at Boston University, California State University Chico, North Carolina State University, University of Connecticut and Yale University. He is a member of the AIGA and IIID.
Armstrong holds a BA from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and an MFA from Yale University.
