Gloria J. Lee Associate Professor [email protected] Design Division 512-471-9133 Department of Art and Art History 1 University Station D1300 The University of Texas at Austin Austin TX 78712-0337

EDUCATION 1991 Yale University, School of Art, MFA Graphic Design 1983 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, SB

TEACHING 1997–present Associate Professor, The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Art + Art History 1992–1997 Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Art + Art History 1991–1992 Lecturer, Graphic Design Yale School of Art

PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE Buds Design Kitchen, Austin TX Co-founder and partner in design consultancy, 1991–Present Selected clients include: 3M, Blanton Museum of Art, Dick Blick Arts Supplies, Earth and Sky, Inc., Girl Games, Inc., Kodak Center for Creative Imaging, Hairston Creek Farm, Holt Rinehart Winston, Taligent, Inc., Mohawk Paper Company, Pearl Paint, Public Strategies, Inc., Scholastic, Inc., Sustainable Food Center of Austin, Texas Art Books, Texas Council for the Humanities, The Texas Observer, Vanguard Classics, The University of Texas at Austin (Center for the Study of Modernism, Center for Advanced Studies in the Arts. School of Architecture, Center for Sustainable Development, Office of the Provost, Office of Development), Whole Foods Market National Headquarters and selected regional divisions

Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard MA Graphic designer, Corporate Design Group, 1987–1991 Collaborated with multidisciplinary team of industrial designers, cognitive psychologists and engineers at a Fortune 100 computer company. Designed and produced traditional design materials, as well as screen icons and user interfaces for software products. Contributed to the interface design of DECWindows (operating system), which was later incorporated into the window environment Motif (UNIX Open Software Foundation). Created color schemes for software on color terminals. Designed Digital’s Corporate Software Color Guidelines. International and national distribution.

Mark of the Unicorn, Cambridge MA Graphic Designer and Technical Writer, 1984-1986 Designed user interfaces for Macintosh software. Wrote, designed and illustrated manuals for new software including Professional Composer, a music editor, and Performer, a MIDI sequencer.

PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS “Design as Rhetoric: Light | Night: The Bike Light Dance Project: Design: A Case Study of Design as Rhetoric.” Message, Issue theme “Mapping Eclecticism Through Practice.” University of Plymouth Press (UK). Publication date: December 2013. Peer-reviewed journal article. “Tyranny of [American] Numbers.” Reimagining Birth, An International Research Symposium on the Visual Culture/Art History/Design of Childbirth in the 21st Century, University College Dublin, Ireland. July 2013. Presentation. “Framing Sustainability.” Faculty Learning Community on Sustainability, the University of Texas at Austin. April 2013. Presentation. “Fieldwork with Adobe Ideas and a Digital Tablet.” Adobe Education Exchange Live (Adobe Education Leaders conference). Toronto, Canada. November 2012. Presentation. “UT Safe Cycling Design Projects: Some Lessons in Time, Space and Complexity.” President’s Sustainability Steering Committee Sustainability Symposium, September 2012. Paper and presentation. “(Re)Framing Recycling.” President’s Sustainability Steering Committee 2011 Sustainability Symposium, September 2011. Paper and presentation. UT Smart Building Initiative, Report to the Provost. 32-page 4-color report, published by Center for Sustainable Development, School of Architecture. Co-authored with Matt Fajkus, Riley Triggs and Barbara Brown-Wilson. August 2011. Gloria J. Lee, page 2

“Sustainability: From Trend to Lifestyle” Adobe MAX Educator’s Conference, Los Angeles, October 2010. Presentation. “Polar Bears, Tufte and Gore: The Role of Science and Visuals in An Inconvenient Truth” From Power 2 Empowerment: An international conference on critical literacy in visual culture, The University of North Texas, June 2008. Presentation. Commissioned essay and design research for the design journal Redaction. Spring 2006. “Uses and Abuses of ‘History’ in the Education of Designers,” 2005 SXSW Interactive Conference, Austin TX. Presentation and discussion. Book review of The Form of the News by Kevin Barnhurst and John Nerone. Word & Image, Summer 2002. “Re-articulating the Goals of Undergraduate Design Education.” Chicago, IL: College Art Association, national conference. March 2001. Presentation followed by a panel discussion. American Institute of Graphic Arts Austin Chapter Small Talks Lecture series. October 2001. Discussion on current state of undergraduate design education. “Design | Research | Writing.” San Antonio, Texas: Art Libraries Society of North America, National Conference. Spring 1997. Invited lecture, followed by panel discussion. “Sign/Sign.” Co-authored with Paul Mazzucca. Zed, Issue 4: Semiotics: Pedagogy and Practice, 1997. Richmond, VA: Center for Design Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University. “Talking Design: Educators Talk About Education.” Interview with Michael Rock. Design in the Academy, AIGA Journal, Vol. 13, 1995, pp. 22–27. “Computer Conferences and the Graphic Designer.” Invited presentation. Hilton Head, North Carolina: American Institute of Graphic Arts National Retreat. 1994.

RECENT PROFESSIONAL SERVICE 2012-2013 Representative and liaison for the University of Texas to Adobe Partners in Design program. 2012 SXSW Interactive Advisory Board member 2004-2007 Adobe Partners in Design Advisory Board Member

SELECTED AWARDS 2004–2013; Adobe Inc., annual $90K in-kind, Partners by Design Software grant. 2011 DPAC Award (School of Architecture/Center for Sustainable Design). Co-P.I.s: Matt Fajkus (SOA) and Riley Triggs (COFA). $50K 2010 LIFT Award, “UT Smart Buildings Initiative,” University of Texas at Austin. Co-P.I.s: Matt Fajkus (SOA), Ulrich Dangel (SOA), Riley Triggs (COFA) and Barbara Wilson (SOA). $96K 2010 Fast-Tex Award “Student Knowledge Base,” DIIA, University of Texas at Austin 2006 Summer Dean’s Fine Art Research Fellowship, College of Fine Arts. 2002 University Special Project Grant “House of Cards” 2000 National Gardening Association Youth Garden Grant. 2000 City of Austin “Master Teacher Pilot Demonstration Project” environmental design and education curriculum develompent, $10,000. 2000 Dean’s Fellowship, College of Fine Art 2000 Center for Advanced Studies in the Arts, College of Fine Arts Competitive Summer Research Grant Nonrationalized Numerical Narratives: GPS Mapping 1999-2000 Foxworth Centennial Fellowship, College of Fine Arts 1999 Department of Art & Art History Competitive Summer Research Grant: Nonrationalized Numerical Narratives 1994 Walter & Gina Ducloux Fellowship for Computer Studies1994 Walter & Gina Ducloux Fellowship for Multiculturalism Studies 1992 Kodak Center for Creative Imaging Grant 1991 American Institute of Graphic Arts Graduate Thesis Award

Selected Exhibitions and Professional Awards 2009 Faculty Exhibition, University of Texas at Austin, Creative Research Laboratory. “Magnet Carta.” 2009 Lady Bird Johnson Garden Tour: Select Gardens. Austin TX 2005 Faculty Exhibition, University of Texas at Austin, Creative Research Laboratory. “Delay to Grief.” 2002 Faculty Exhibition, University of Texas at Austin, Creative Research Laboratory. “House of Cards.” Gloria J. Lee, page 3

1999 International Association of Business Communicators, Chapter Gold Award 1999 Texas Association of Museums, 1999 Mitchel A. Wilder Gold Award 1998 Faculty Exhibition, Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin. “Nonrationalized numerical narratives.” 1993 “Not Graphic Design by Graphic Designers,” American Institute of Graphic Arts. Group exhibition; in permanent national slide collection. 1993 “Recent Digital Video Work,” Kodak Center for Creative Imaging, Camden ME. Group Exhibition. 1993 Austin Graphic Arts Society. Juried exhibition. 1993 Mohawk Design Excellence Award 1991–1993 “Issues and Causes,” American Institute of Graphic Arts. New York City; Chicago; Indianapolis; Los Angeles; Boston; Washington DC; Wichita, Kansas; Birmingham, Alabama; Kansas City; Raleigh, North Carolina. Juried exhibition; in permanent national slide and collection 1991 “Forty Years of Posters at Yale,” A+A Gallery, Yale University, New Haven CT. Juried exhibition. 1990 Creative Club of Boston. Juried exhibition.