Chair, Department of Design
MFA Academy of Fine Arts, Poznan, Poland
Professor Janczak's multidisciplinary professional practice, research and teaching include design of interactive environments and time-based forms of communication. Since 1994 he has specialized in developing and evaluating information architecture, interface design, interactive systems and information technologies in online education. His current research focuses on investigating the theories, practices and technologies involving physical computing, information spaces and tangible interfaces.
Wendy Wong
Associate Professor, York University
Chair, Department of Design
PhD MA BA Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Professor Wong published extensively on Chinese and Hong Kong visual culture and history. She is the author of Hong Kong Comics: A History of Manhua. She has published 4 books for Chinese readers funded by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. Wong's articles appeared in Design Issues, Journal of Design History, Journal of Popular Culture, International Journal of Comic Art, Journal of Gender Studies, Mass Communication and Society, and Graphis Magazine.
She served as a visiting scholar at Harvard University from 1999 to 2000, and was the 2000 Lubalin Curatorial Fellow at the Cooper Union School of Art, where she curated an exhibit entitled "Chinese Graphic Design towards the International Sphere." She has taught both traditional creative print and digital interactive media full-time since 1997 in North America and Hong Kong.
http://www.yorku.ca/wsywong/homepage/personal.htm
David Cabianca AIGA
Assistant Professor, York University
MArch Princeton University, USA
MFA Design, Cranbrook Academy of Art, USA
MA Typeface Design, University of Reading, UK
Prior to joining the department in 2005, David Cabianca taught typography, history and theory at OCAD and both architecture studio and theory and criticism at the University of Manitoba and the University of Michigan. At Michigan he was the 1997-98 William Muschenheim Fellow and received the Donna M. Salzer Award for excellence in teaching. He has lectured at CalArts, Carnegie Mellon, the University of British Columbia's School of Architecture and the University of Michigan, among others. His writing has appeared in Emigre, Design Issues, Dimensions, ACSA Proceedings and :output. He is currently completing a text typeface, Cardea, scheduled for public release by the Emigre Font Foundry.
Sandra Gabriele
Assistant Professor, York University
MDes University of Alberta, Canada
Sandra Gabriele has been practicing and teaching design for over twenty years. She's a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto, the School of Design (Schule fur Gestaltung) in Basel and the University of Alberta.
In professional practice, she has designed communications materials for a variety of clients: government organizations, corporations, small businesses and non-profit organizations, in both print and digital media. Her research interests are in the area of typography (legibility and the visual representation of large text collections) and information design (specifically, patient safety initiatives involving design).
Jan Hadlaw
Assistant Professor, York University
PhD Simon Fraser University, Canada
MA BFA Concordia University, Canada
Jan Hadlaw's research interests focus on design and everyday life, especially graphic design as cultural communication, advertising and consumer culture, and the history and design of modern technology. She was awarded both a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship and an FCar Doctoral Research Grant in support of her historical study of the design and representation of the modern telephone. In 1999, she was a Smithsonian Fellow-in-Residence at the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum in New York and at the National Museum of American History in Washington DC. Prior to joining the department, she taught at the School of Communications at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver and in the Department of Design at Concordia University in Montreal. She is a graphic designer who has worked with a diverse range of clients, including Alcan, the National Film Board, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, La Museo del Bel Arte Mexico, as well as many independent galleries and artists across Canada.
Her current research includes a study of role played by design in the construction of Canadian national identity in the 1960s and 70s. She has also received a SSHRC Small Grant to undertake the pilot study for a research project on vernacular design and architecture in rural British Colombia.
Michael Longford
Associate Professor, York University
Associate Chair, Department of Design
MFA Ruthers University, USA
BFA York University, Canada
BFA Ryerson University, Canada
Professor Longford creative work and research activities reside at the intersection of photography, graphic design and digital media. Currently, he is a co-principal investigator for the Mobile Digital Commons Network (MDCN), a national research network developing technology and media rich content for mobile devices. The MDCN is a joint research project launched by Concordia University and the Banff New Media Institute. He is a founding member of Hexagram: Institute for Research and Creation in Media Arts and Technologies and served for three years as the Director for the Advanced Digital Imaging and 3D Rapid Prototyping Group. He has exhibited and presented his work at national and international exhibitions and conferences.
http://www.michaellongford.com/
Angela Norwood, AIGA
Associate Professor, York University
Director of the Graduate Program in Design
MGD (Master of Graphic Design) North Carolina State University, USA
Angela Norwood is the 2006/07 recipient of the Faculty of Fine Arts Dean's Junior Faculty Teaching Award. Her current research interests include examining the role of design in Ladakh, India through social, cultural and cognitive aspects of wayfinding and signage systems. She is also interested in analyzing structural devices in advertising. A former professional designer in Chicago, IL and Raleigh, NC, she has over 15 years experience in practice. Her professional work has been recognized by several organizations and publications including the Type Directors Club, Graphis and Communication Arts Magazine. Her work is also included in the American Institute of Graphic Arts National Design Archive.
Associate Professor, York University
MSc Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
Professor Peng is a professional designer with expertise in design planning and human-centered design. His teaching and research interests focus upon systems and systemic design, information and interactivity design, metaplanning, and design knowledge management.
David Scadding, R.G.D.
Associate Professor, York University
MVA University of Alberta, Canada
Professor Scadding is a professional Registered Graphic Designer who, by love & training, focuses his teaching & research in the field of typography - its history, development and contemporary practices. He has over 30 years of experience in print-oriented and new media visual communication design. His professional work has been exhibited and published in Canada, the United States, France, China, and England.
He has been an invited speaker, seminar/workshop leader at numerous national and international conferences on design, new media and typography. He has received over 30 awards for his professional work and for his teaching - the most recent being the Dean's Teaching Award from York University.
Professors Emeriti
Don Newgren Retired Member RGD
York University
PhD Syracuse University, USA
MA University of Illinois, USA
Don Newgren's research interests focus upon user participation, either active or passive, during the inventory and planning part of the design process. These interests emerged from his development and implementation of unobtrusive data collection methodology for planning exhibitions while being the Director of Design at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. His professional design work in graphic design and exhibition design for firms such as IBM, US Steel, Eastman Kodak, Union Carbide, Bell Labs, United Airlines, General Motors, and Shell Oil has won numerous awards in North America.
He has over 30 years of teaching experience, and has lectured in Japan, Europe, and the United States. In addition, he has 16 years of administrative experience at York University
Andrew M. Tomcik, Retired Member RGD
York University
MFA Design, Yale University, USA
Professor Tomcik has worked as a designer in Canada and the US. His work has been published or exhibited in Canada, USA, Great Britain, Switzerland, Poland, Czech Republic, Finland and China. As well he has participated in numerous conferences on design education and design history. He also received the Ontario Federation of University Faculty Associations award for excellence in teaching.
Adjunct Faculty
Brian Donnelly
Professor, Sheridan College
PhD Queen's University, Canada
Brian Donnelly has a background in fine art, a fifteen year career as a graphic designer, and for the past ten years has been studying and teaching the history and theory of design and visual culture. His particular research focus is on graphic design history in Canada. The pursuit of this little-known history has taken him across Canada, and resulted in the award of several grants. He has been an invited speaker at conferences from Vancouver to Halifax, and last spring at an international Visual Studies conference in Madrid. As well as at York, he has taught at The Ontario College of Art & Design, Queen's University, and Sheridan Institute.
Arlene Gould, F.R.S.A.
York University
MBA London Business School, UK
Arlene Gould is Coordinator of the Design Management Certificate Program at Ryerson University. She has served as Senior Director of Programming for the Design Exchange. She is also the Strategic Director for Ontario's Design Industry Advisory Committee (DIAC). Arlene has worked in design/business strategy consulting for international, multidisciplinary design firms including Pentagram and the Conran Design Group in the United Kingdom, and The Watt Group in Canada. She is an executive board member of Sustainable Buildings Canada and a Fellow of the R.S.A.
Angela Iarocci
Professor, Sheridan College
MArch University of Toronto, Canada
Angela Iarocci has a diverse design background that builds on her academic training in industrial design and architecture. Angela is a professional designer with experience in both the public and private sector, specializing in environmental graphic design, architecture and urban design. She has been involved in numerous large-scale projects developing signage and wayfinding programs, exhibits, web sites, monuments and interpretive installations.
As an instructor at Sheridan, her teaching and research interests stem from an inter-disciplinary approach that seeks to encompass both visual communications and the built environment with specific focus on design and mapping.
Michael Large, R.G.D.
Associate Dean, Sheridan College
School of Animation, Arts and Design
Sheridan College
PhD Concordia University, Canada
Professor Large has extensive experience in design and consulting, and has taught in design programs in England and Canada for many years. His chief teaching and research interests are the history and theory of design. Topics include visual identity, information design, design education and cultural issues. His major current involvement is in program development and inter-institutional collaborations.
Brian Tsang, R.G.D.
Professor, Sheridan College
Graphic Design Coordinator
MA Syracuse University, USA
Brian Tsang is a practicing graphic designer with extensive experience in corporate and system design. His teaching and research interests focus upon the complex relationship between content, form and context of information and human perception.
Douglas Whitton
Professor, Sheridan College
MPS New York University, USA
Professor Whitton is an interactive designer with extensive consulting experience in North America. He has designed web based intranet applications, web sites, information architecture, and interactive video installations. His research and teaching interests centre on innovative approaches to experience design and human centered design. Before coming to Sheridan, Professor Whitton taught design at Hong Kong Polytechnic University.