Camila Afanador-Llach
Associate Professor, Graphic Design
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts & Letters
Visual Arts and Art History
Fort Lauderdale Campus | HEC 1009E
Education
- MFA Rhode Island School of Design
About
Born and raised in Bogot谩, Colombia, Camila Afanador-Llach holds a 5-year degree in Industrial Design from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and an MFA in Graphic Design from the Rhode Island School of Design. Before her academic career, she worked as an in-house web and editorial designer in Bogot谩 and for a branding and design firm in Boston, MA. At 麻豆精品视频she is the graphic design graduate coordinator and teaches courses on typography, animation, interaction design, information design, and visual identity systems.
In her recent work, she imagines futures for the discipline of graphic design by mapping relationships between design practice and humanistic inquiry. Her project 鈥淭he Arquin Slide Collection Digitization Project: Preserving the Heritage of Latin America鈥 in collaboration with Dr. Emily Fenichel, received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (2020). Afanador-Llach also presents and publishes research related to design pedagogy. Her book chapter 鈥淢otion in Graphic Design: Interdisciplinary References for Teaching鈥 was included in the book Theory and Practice of Motion Design: Critical Perspectives and Professional Practice. She has presented at conferences including the Mid-America College Art Association Conference (2016), the International Congress of Design Education (Argentina, 2019), and the Digitally Engaged Conference: Teaching Futures (2019).
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