Illustrator Basics
Paths, pathfinder and the pen tool.
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Teaching
Teaching Approach
Interactive
Conceptual thinking, visual communication, studio practice, and hands-on experimentation — taught through making rather than lecture.
- Making
- Experimentation
- Inquiry
- Dialogue
- Reflection
- Participation
- Curiosity
- Critical Thinking
- Visual Thinking
- Research through Design
- Material Exploration
- Play
- Iteration
- Material Thinking
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Teaching Philosophy
I teach design as a way of thinking before it is a way of making. Students arrive expecting software; what they leave with is a method — how to look, how to question a brief, how to test an idea in material form and let the result change their mind.
My classroom is a studio: iterative, participatory, and hands-on. Critique is treated as shared research rather than judgement, and experimentation is the assignment, not a detour from it.
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Courses
East Carolina University
ART 2200 — Graphic Design Survey
2026–Present
An introduction to the histories, methods and vocabulary of graphic design.
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Fatemieh University, Bandar Abbas, Iran
Previous Teaching Experience
2017–2020
Adjunct Professor. Undergraduate courses across typography, identity and motion.
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Teaching Resources
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Typography Tips
Spacing, hierarchy and optical correction.
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Composition Exercises
Balance, tension and the active edge.
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Grid Systems
Columns, baselines and modular structure.
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Color Relationships
Contrast, temperature and simultaneity.
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p5.js Introduction
Drawing with code, loops and randomness.
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Design Critique
How to give and receive useful feedback.
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Assignments
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Composition Exercise
Build tension and balance from a fixed set of elements.
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Typographic Translation
Carry meaning across languages and letterforms.
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Poster Challenge
One message, one surface, no illustration.
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Material Experiment
Make the process visible in the outcome.
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AI + Design Prompt
Use generation as a research method, not a shortcut.
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Mapping Meaning
Diagram a system you belong to.
Workshops & Talks
5 entries
2026
Embodied Awareness: Professional Identity Formation and Becoming a Physician
Workshop with Medical Students
Bioethics & Medical Humanities Program, East Carolina University
2026
From Form to Meaning: A Participatory, AI-Supported Framework for Teaching Composition in Design Education
Workshop for Foundation Art and Design Students
East Carolina University
2026
From Form to Meaning: A Participatory, AI-Supported Framework for Teaching Composition in Design Education
Workshop for Graphic Design Students
East Carolina University
2026
Beyond Vision: Touch, Presence, and the Ethical Body
Workshop with Medical Students
Bioethics & Medical Humanities Program, East Carolina University
2025
Embodied Awareness: Exploring the Ethical Body Through Art and Somaesthetics
Workshop with Medical Students
Bioethics & Medical Humanities Program, East Carolina University
Portfolio Reviews
Undergraduate Portfolio Review
One-to-one review for graduating design students.
Graduate Application Review
Guidance on MFA and graduate school portfolios.
Industry Portfolio Clinic
Preparing student work for professional practice.
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