TEACHING STATEMENT
Statement of pedagogy can be found here.
Syllabus, Assignment Briefs, and Supplemental Materials can be found here.
All student projects presented above were designed and developed from scratch from Interaction Design I class.
STUDENT AWARDS
The student packaging projects in my class have consistently won every year that we entered the rigorous PPA national competition. In addition to these high profile awards, my students have also received additional scholarships and supportfrom the paperboard packaging industry. In addition, they have received incredible mentorship from our faculty collaborators in the ITP program, professors Javier de la Fuente and Irene Carbonell.
The Paperboard Packaging Alliance (PPA)’s 2025 Student Design Challenge is an annual competition in which university students apply their talent and design skills to innovate, creative approaches to paper-based packaging in response to real-world customer needs and marketing scenarios. The Paperboard Packaging Alliance (PPA) organizes this competition to foster awareness and appreciation of paperboard packaging with the next generation of packaging design decision-makers.
Cal Poly submits entries every year from a quarter-long class projects developed in a partnership of two courses and three faculty advisors:
- ITP 408 Fiber-Based Packaging (Profs. Javier de la Fuente and Irene Carbonell)
- ART 437: Graphic Design III (Prof. Linh Dao)
Each year, cross-disciplinary teams identify competitive angles to solve unique industry and real world problems through original and sustainable packaging solutions. Student backgrounds included packaging, graphic design, food science, industrial technology, and business. These projects earned the right to participate in the global competition after receiving national awards in the United States.
This marks the fifth consecutive year that this collaboration between ART 437 and ITP 408 has produced at least a top-three award winner at this competition:
- 2021: Sweet Pea - Second Place
- 2022: Froot - Second Place
- 2023: Sun Ease - Second Place
- 2024: Lively Roots - Third Place
- 2025: PAWSH & Teef Story - TBD
Interaction Design Awards
Salute Student Design competition 2023: Celeste Gonzales for yer project POV.
Adobe + MTV Creative Jams 2020: Finalist: Ivy Tan & Kelly Tse for project Zero Central. Fourth Place: Carolina Padllina & Shandeigh for project Streami.
STUDENT WORK
All student projects presented above were produced in Interaction design II class.
All student projects presented above were coded and designed from scratch from Interaction Design I.
All student projects presented above were produced in Graphic Design Studio III class.
All student projects presented above were produced in Sign & Symbols class.
All student projects presented above were produced in Graphic Design Studio I class.
All student projects presented above were produced in Graphic Design Studio II classes.
All student projects presented above were produced in Introduction to Digital Design class.
All student projects presented above were produced in Introduction to Digital Design class.
All student projects presented above were produced in Introduction to Digital Design class.
All student projects presented above were produced in Introduction to Graphic Design I class.
PEDAGOGICAL RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS
Identity Collage: a Workshop Method for Exploring Intersectional IdentitiesIdentity Collage: a Workshop Method for Exploring Intersectional Identities, International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR)
Diverse and Inclusive Strategies for Crisis Management in the Design classroom, Dialogue: Proceedings of the AIGA Design Educators Community Conferences