List of books and materials for students

Pattie Belle Hastings
Pattie Belle has been teaching digital art and design courses at the college level since 1990. She has also taught a variety of workshops from book and printmaking methods to time management for creative types. While making art is intensely gratifying, there is something about working with people and sharing a passion that she has not been able to replicate except in a classroom or workshop. Pattie Belle loves it – with all its complications and sacrifices. She misses teaching desperately when she is away from it.
Quinnpiac University
Presentations
Workshops

Bjorn Akselsen
Bjorn has taught university level classes in typography, interactive design and information design for the last decade at institutions like State University of New York (SUNY), Purchase, Southern Connecticut State University and Quinnipiac University. Examples of student work can be found below.

Quinnipiac University
In this class students (many for the first time) explored ways to use the computer to create 2D computer images and animations for interactive multi-media, computer games and for the web. Students used professional software for the creation of animated 2D text, images and dynamic audio visual data. Students made animations for desktop presentation, embedded in web pages and for non-linear digital video that showing both knowledge and understanding of 2D computer graphics while demonstrating creativity.
Syllabus
Student Work

Southern Connecticut State University Information Design Project
This introductory information design course explored the mapping of a process onto a two dimensional surface, as well as issues of visual cues, by designing a flow chart (process diagram).
Assignment description
Student work

Southern Connecticut State University Introductory Web Project
A short, introductory class, this project required students to design, construct, test, and upload a personal web site using ”industry standard” tools such as Photoshop, ImageReady, FireWorks, DreamWeaver, and Illustrator. For most students, this was their first experience with designing for the screen and they worked exceptionally hard to pull enough knowledge together to launch a small site.
Assignment description
Student work