HELEN ARMSTRONG

This semester Miami graphic design students from my Print Design Systems class collaborated with graduate creative writing students from Professor Ann Fisher-Wirth’s course at the University of Mississippi. Together they created the first issue of a hypothetical new poetry journal. Ole Miss students first wrote an original body of work and then Miami students developed [...]

Architect John Bertram asked me to design a cover to be included in his current book project: The Lolita Cover Project. This project is an expansion of Bertram’s essay that published in the Nabokov Online Journal. Marco Sonzogni, a literary translator and lecturer in languages at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, is working [...]

Using the identity signage template from p.86 of our new book Participate, Zvez and I created our own marks.       (left to right) Helen Armstrong , Zvezdana Stojmirovic

LINKED: An Experiment in CoCreation developed by Helen Armstrong, Miami University, and Zvezdana Stojmirovic, The Maryland Institute College of Art. 35 MICA students in Baltimore, MD / 22 Miami students in Oxford, Ohio—our project began with this question: How can 57 students in three sections from two very different institutions collaborate across time and space? [...]

Crowdspeak: A co-created student project/exhibition developed by Helen Armstrong, Miami University, and Zvezdana Stojmirovic, The Maryland Institute College of Art “Workflow—the order of tasks in the realization of a project—is as important as outcome. This experiment explores how different workflows affect authorship and help build community. In this cross-institutional assignment, sophomores at MICA and Miami [...]