https://design.sfsu.edu/ en https://design.sfsu.edu/news/assist-prof-sosa-tzec-discusses-critical-approaches-visual-essay-aiga-dec-symposium <div class="row bs-1col node node--type-news node--view-mode-rss"> <div class="col-sm-12 bs-region bs-region--main"> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h1 class="news-title"> Assist. Prof. Sosa-Tzec discusses critical approaches to the visual essay in the AIGA DEC Symposium </h1> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-sub-component field--type-entity-reference-revisions field--label-hidden field--item"> <div class="pl-component pl-component--news-headline-topfold news-wrapper"> <div class="news-author">Author: School of Design </div> <div class="news-info"> <div class="news-date"> October 12, 2023 </div> <div class="field field--name-field-p-image field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field--item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/sf_state_1440x564/public/images/LENS_rectangle-2048x1342.png?h=6715fba9&amp;itok=y1FWX-9H" width="1440" height="564" alt="Flyer of the AIGA DEC Symposium" class="img-responsive" /> </div> <div class="pull-right photo-credit">Photo Credit: AIGA DEC </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-component field--type-entity-reference-revisions field--label-hidden field--items"> <div class="field--item"><div class="pl-component pl-component--content-basic" > <div class="field field--name-field-p-formatted-content field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item"><p><a href="https://educators.aiga.org/lens-2023-aiga-dec-symposium/">The AIGA DEC Symposium Lens 2023</a> took place this October 12 in New York City, within <a href="https://www.aiga.org/design/aiga-design-conference">the AIGA National Conference</a>. Assistant Professor Omar Sosa-Tzec participated in the panel "Making Space for Graphic Designers as Visual Essayists." In this panel, Dr. Sosa-Tzec discussed the notion of the visual essay as a multimodal argument and outcome of research-through-design and the application of poetics, semiotics, rhetoric, and aesthetics as critical approaches to peer-review the visual essay in graphic design academia. Sosa-Tzec also discussed sketchnoting as a form of pre-writing and content for visual essays. Accompanying Dr. Sosa-Tzec were Patricia Childers (CUNY/CityTech/Pratt), Heather Corcoran (Washington University in St. Louis), and Joshua Unikel (University of Houston). All the professors were <a href="https://educators.aiga.org/design-writing-fellowship/">AIGA DEC Design + Writing Fellowship members in 2022.</a> This panel and their work from the fellowship seek to legitimize the visual essay as a research product in graphic design academia and pluralize and diversify its voices. </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field--item"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--basic-image paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div class="field field--name-field-p-image field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field--item"><img class="pl-component pl-component--img img-responsive img-default" src="/sites/default/files/images/Screen%20Shot%202023-10-16%20at%2010.07.58%20AM.png" alt="Slide listing poetics, semiotics, rhetoric, and aesthetics as critical approaches to the visual essay"> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field--item"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--basic-image paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div class="field field--name-field-p-image field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field--item"><img class="pl-component pl-component--img img-responsive img-default" src="/sites/default/files/images/Screen%20Shot%202023-10-16%20at%2010.08.09%20AM.png" alt="Image showing Omar Sosa-Tzec&#039;s visual essay and sketchnotes and listing uses for the sketchnote in visual essay creation"> </div> </div> </div> </div> <p>Tags</p> <div class="tags-item"> <ul class="list-inline"> <li > <a href="/index.php/tags/tags/research" hreflang="en">Research</a></li> <li > <a href="/index.php/tags/tags/tenuredtenure-track-faculty" hreflang="en">Tenured/Tenure-Track Faculty</a></li> <li > <a href="/index.php/tags/tags/creative-practice" hreflang="en">Creative Practice</a></li> <li > <a href="/index.php/tags/tags/visual-essay" hreflang="en">Visual Essay</a></li> <li > <a href="/index.php/tags/tags/aiga-dec" hreflang="en">AIGA DEC</a></li> <li > <a href="/index.php/tags/tags/sketchnoting" hreflang="en">Sketchnoting</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> Mon, 16 Oct 2023 17:31:41 +0000 Omar Sosa Tzec 253 at https://design.sfsu.edu https://design.sfsu.edu/news/assist-prof-sosa-tzec-member-aiga-dec-design-writing-fellowship-2022 <div class="row bs-1col node node--type-news node--view-mode-rss"> <div class="col-sm-12 bs-region bs-region--main"> <div class="field field--name-node-title field--type-ds field--label-hidden field--item"><h1 class="news-title"> Assist. Prof. Sosa-Tzec member of the AIGA DEC Design + Writing Fellowship 2022 </h1> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-sub-component field--type-entity-reference-revisions field--label-hidden field--item"> <div class="pl-component pl-component--news-headline-topfold news-wrapper"> <div class="news-author">Author: Omar Sosa-Tzec </div> <div class="news-info"> <div class="news-date"> September 27, 2022 </div> <div class="field field--name-field-p-image field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field--item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/styles/sf_state_1440x564/public/images/sketchnotes_1.png?h=71976bb4&amp;itok=cy7gPuuH" width="1440" height="564" alt="Sketchnotes made by Prof. Sosa-Tzec during the AIGA DEC 2020 Design + Writing Fellowship" class="img-responsive" /> </div> <div class="pull-right photo-credit">Photo Credit: Omar Sosa-Tzec </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-component field--type-entity-reference-revisions field--label-hidden field--items"> <div class="field--item"><div class="pl-component pl-component--content-basic" > <div class="field field--name-field-p-formatted-content field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field--item"><p>The<a href="https://educators.aiga.org/"> AIGA Design Educators Community (DEC) </a>introduced a new design and writing fellowship for 2022. <a href="http://tzec.com/">Assistant Professor Omar Sosa-Tzec</a> was selected along with another 15 design faculty across the United States to form this fellowship's first cohort. From January to June, these design faculty worked individually and collaboratively to discuss and investigate the visual essay. Dr. Sosa-Tzec utilized sketchnoting to reflect on the nature of visual essays and explore theoretical approaches that could facilitate their production and peer-review––namely, poetics, semiotics, rhetoric, and aesthetics. </p> <p>Posters showcasing the fellows' projects will be exhibited at <a href="https://educators.aiga.org/2022-dec-mini-conference-surface/">Surface––the AIGA DEC Mini-Conference</a>––which takes place during the events of the <a href="https://www.aiga.org/design/design-conferences/aiga-design-conference">2022 AIGA Design Conference</a>. Below is Prof. Sosa-Tzec's poster.</p> <p> </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field--item"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--basic-image paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div class="field field--name-field-p-image field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field--item"><img class="pl-component pl-component--img img-responsive img-default" src="/sites/default/files/images/poster-aiga-conf-2022-reduced-size_0.jpg" alt="Poster by Omar Sosa-Tzec to be presented in the AIGA DEC Conference"> </div> </div> </div> </div> <p>Tags</p> <div class="tags-item"> <ul class="list-inline"> <li > <a href="/index.php/tags/tags/research" hreflang="en">Research</a></li> <li > <a href="/index.php/tags/tags/tenuredtenure-track-faculty" hreflang="en">Tenured/Tenure-Track Faculty</a></li> <li > <a href="/index.php/tags/tags/aiga-dec" hreflang="en">AIGA DEC</a></li> <li > <a href="/index.php/tags/tags/sketchnoting" hreflang="en">Sketchnoting</a></li> <li > <a href="/index.php/tags/tags/drawing" hreflang="en">Drawing</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> Tue, 27 Sep 2022 22:59:01 +0000 Omar Sosa Tzec 190 at https://design.sfsu.edu