Graphic Design at Illinois State University

09/24/2026

Design Streak Studio collaborated with the Department of History for this promotional poster design. Thanks you the department for their continued partnership.

The ISU History Department is thrilled to welcome Dr. Antoinette Burton to campus on Wednesday, September 30th! Dr. Burton is a historian of the modern British empire at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her lecture will explore the experiences of Indian women students at Oxford in the late 1880s, specifically the navigation of scrutiny, identity, and belonging at Victorian Oxford. Make plans to attend this incredible lecture!

🗓️ When: Wednesday, September 30th
⏰ Time: 5:30 pm
📍 Where: Old Main in the Bone Student Center

09/07/2026

CROSSPLATFORM GRAPHIC DESIGN LECTURE SERIES :: FALL 2026
Alumni Dialogues with Mitch Brinkler

Here to There
Wednesday: September 9
12:30pm to 1:30pm
University Galleries

Mitch Brinker ’07 is an Art Director at State Farm, where he leads creative development and design across a range of marketing initiatives. Over nearly 20 years, his career has taken him through agencies, startups, nonprofits, and in-house creative teams. Mitch will share a look at his day-to-day work as an art director, along with practical lessons, insights, and perspectives he’s gained throughout his career as a designer.

04/08/2026

CROSSPLATFORM LECTURE with DR. DORI TUNSTALL
Decolonizing Design: Education for Liberatory Joy
April 15th, Wednesday
12:30 to 1:30pm
University Galleries

Join us as Dr. Dori Tunstall explores decolonizing design by challenging the European modernist myth of universality—such as the Bauhaus ideal—and instead advocates for a design education of liberatory joy, which strengthens the connections to self, community, and environment through making with the intention of collective care.

The lecture is free and open to the public. ........

Dr. Elizabeth “Dori” Tunstall is an award-winning design anthropologist and educator with over 25 years of experience leading institutional transformation across Australia, Canada, and the United States. Dori began her career as a high-tech user experience consultant at Sapient and Arc Worldwide before moving into academia at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she deepened the practice of transdisciplinary design research. As Associate Dean of Learning and Teaching at Swinburne University, she created the first Master of Design (Design Anthropology) program fully integrated with Indigenous ways of knowing. Later, as Dean of the Faculty of Design at OCAD University, Dori became the first Black—and Black female—dean of a faculty of design anywhere in the world. She led the globally recognized transformation of OCAD U's hiring practices and curriculum to become more diverse, decolonial, inclusive, and accessible. In 2023, she returned to the United States to found Dori Tunstall, Inc., working with communities and industries that are wanted to practice liberatory joy through research-informed care.........

With Gratitude —
Harold Gregor Endowed Professorship, Wonsook Kim School of Art
Visiting Artist and Designer Program, Wonsook Kim School of Art
College of Business
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
African American Studies Program

03/02/2026

CROSSPLATFORM GRAPHIC DESIGN LECTURE
Navigating Class, Culture, and Creativity
Wednesday, March 4
12:30pm to 1:30pm CT

Shantanu Suman
Associate Professor of Graphic Design
Ball State University
https://www.shantanusuman.com/.......
Zoom presentation, email if you would like to join [email protected].......
Shantanu Suman is a graphic designer, documentary filmmaker, and educator from India, currently serving as an Associate Professor of Graphic Design at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. With over two decades of professional experience, his career spans roles as a Creative Director, small business owner, and educator, during which his work has received multiple international awards and been featured in leading print and digital publications.

After completing his undergraduate studies in New Delhi, Shantanu worked for more than six years as an Art Director at renowned advertising agencies in New Delhi and Mumbai. In 2010, he moved to the United States to pursue a master’s degree in Design at the University of Florida. Two years later, he co-directed Horn Please, a documentary on Indian Truck Art, which has been screened at film festivals across the United States and Europe.

Since transitioning to academia in 2016, Shantanu has presented his research, teaching, and creative work at multiple national and international conferences. His practice continues to explore the intersection of culture, language, and design, often drawing on his Indian heritage. In particular, his work with Hindi typography tries to position the Devanagari script within contemporary design discourse.

02/25/2026

ISU students, we are now accepting online entries for the Student Annual exhibition!

Use the link in comments to submit up to two entries for consideration by this year's jurors: Rebecca Tegtmeyer and Nazafarin Lotfi.

All current ISU students are eligible to submit works. Use the online portal from February 16 through March 1.

📷: Background of poster is a detail of an installation by Alissa Palmer, the 2018 Marshall Dulaney Pitcher Award winner.

02/10/2026

CROSSPLATFORM GRAPHIC DESIGN LECTURE
Designing Collective Spaces for Cross-Cultural Dialogue
Wednesday, February 11
12:30pm to 1:30pm CT

Mary Yang
Assistant Professor of Graphic Design
Boston University
https://mary-yang.com/Home
https://radicalcharacters.org/......
Zoom presentation, email if you would like to join [email protected]......
Mary Y. Yang is a designer and educator based in Boston, MA. She is the co-founder of Radical Characters, an educational and curatorial platform that researches and explores graphic design, typography, and culture through Hanzi (Chinese characters). Yang is an Assistant Professor at Boston University, where she teaches in both the undergraduate and graduate Graphic Design programs. Her research and pedagogical approach examine how language can be used as a tool for multilingual exchange, co-building history, embodied learning, and cultivating spaces for collective knowledge. She is currently the 2025–2026 Artist-Writer-in-Residence at Johns Hopkins University’s University Writing Program.

In addition to her role as an educator, Yang is the founder of Open Rehearsal, a design studio that collaborates with cultural and educational clients on research and projects spanning brand identities, exhibition graphics, book design, environmental graphics, and editorial design. Her work has been recognized by Communication Arts and featured in AIGA, PRINT Magazine, Society of Typographic Arts, Design360°, and Hyperallergic.

Yang holds an MFA in Graphic Design from the Rhode Island School of Design and a BFA in Communication Design from Washington University in St. Louis, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts. She has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design and lectured at the University of Washington. Previously, she has worked on the graphic and brand design team at Victoria’s Secret PINK (NYC), the University of Washington Press (Seattle, WA), and Studio Blue (Chicago, IL).

02/09/2026

CROSSPLATFORM GRAPHIC DESIGN SPRING LECTURE SERIES
Monday, February 9, 12:30pm to 1:30pm, University Galleries
The lecture is free and open to all.

Rebecca Tegtmeyer
Associate Professor of Graphic Design
Michigan State University.....
Rebecca Tegtmeyer is an Associate Professor of Graphic Design in the Department of Art, Art History, and Design at Michigan State University. Through her active research, writing, making, and teaching agendas, she investigates the role of a designer and the creative process through a variety of forms. Working both individually and collaboratively, she approaches design as a catalyst in facilitating systems that challenge and inspire. Her solo work examines sewing as a design practice, challenging the technical tools, consumerism, and patriarchal systems in design production. Her research has been presented and published at several international and national venues organized by the highest-ranking organizations in the design field, such as the University and College Designers Association, Cumulus Association, Design Research Society, College Arts Association, Motion Design Education, and AIGA. Rebecca holds a BFA in Visual Communication from the University of Kansas and a Master of Graphic Design (MGD) from NC State University College of Design.

12/04/2025

To support the Best Newcomer Award. Each card is $5.

12/04/2025

Our first Design Streak Studio’s Holiday Card Sale!!! Today 111:3 am to 3pm! Each card is $5, supports The Best Newcomer Award at the 2026 Student Annual. Join us!!✨

11/21/2025

Join us for Design Streak’s Holiday Card Sale!!
All proceeds support the “Best Newcomer Award” in the Student Annual exhibition.
Each card is $5.
Sale starts on Thursday, December 4 from 11:30am—3pm, and Friday, December 5 from 9am — 1 pm outside of room CVA 124 on the first floor.