Kansas City Art Institute

As a fresh-faced 28-year-old, Tyler first set foot in a KCAI design classroom as a full time professor and has never looked back. He has taught at KCAI and the University of Kansas, having earned his BFA from Missouri State University and an MGD from North Carolina State University. Tyler is passionate about design for social change and his recent professional work has centered on visual identity and support materials for “Stand Up KC”, Kansas City’s conception of the international low-wage worker movement. Other projects in this area have been included in the 2017 Graphis Poster Annual, Communication Arts magazine, and “The Design of Dissent”. He also participates regularly in the design educators’ community, delivering papers and project presentations at a national and international level. But perhaps just as important, Tyler loves riding bikes, punk rock, vegan cookies, and being a husband and dad.

Contact: Tgalloway@kcai.edu

Lisa J. Maione is an art director, designer, and educator. Born in Japan and raised in the U.S., Lisa cut her teeth at New York studios including 2×4, Pentagram, mgmt. design and Wolff Olins, and later at the publication, Metropolis. In her independent design and art practice, clients range from architects to community organizations, artists, and publishers among others. Since 2008, she has taught undergraduate and graduate design courses at Parsons School of Design, Queens College City University of New York and Oklahoma State University. Lisa holds a BFA and MFA in Graphic Design from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and a post-graduate certificate in Typeface Design from Type@Cooper NYC.

Contact: lmaione@kcai.edu

Crisp is bi-located in Raleigh, North Carolina, and Los Angeles, California. She is a designer, writer, educator, curator, and advocate of Graphic Design: The Discipline. She serves as a full professor and the Director of the Master of Graphic Design program at North Carolina State University. Prior to that appointment, she was the Senior Designer for Art Center College of Design and principal of the design studio SúperStové!.

Throughout her career as a designer, she has taught design graduate and undergraduate courses at Art Center (Saturday High, Art Center at Night, and the Graphic Design and Media Design programs), California Institute of the Arts, Otis Art Institute, and UCLA (extension program). I have also served as an external advisor for graduate students at RISD and Otis Art Institute.

Crisp’s work and writing are widely published in European publications including Eye Magazine, Items, Book 2.0 Journal, Communication Design Journal, and in US publications including Emigré, Design Observer, Print, Design and Culture Journal, and Metropolis. My essays and design work are also included in some books: Earthquakes, Mudslides, Fires & Riots: California and Graphic Design, 1936-1986; Design Research: Methods and Perspectives; The Designer as Author, Producer, Activist, Entrepreneur, Curator, and Collaborator; Graphic Design: History in the Writing (1983–2011); Design Dictionary; All Access: The Making of Thirty Extraordinary Graphic Designers — to name a few. Her own book, Graphic Design in Context: Typography, was published in 2012 by Thames & Hudson, UK, and is available here.

Crisp’s expertise and interests in design education, typography, and typographic tools, and graphic design are fodder for her writing. The DecoRational (a term she coined) was the basis for the exhibition Deep Surface: Contemporary Ornament and Pattern at the Contemporary Art Museum in Raleigh, co-curated with Susan Yelavich.

Crisp sits on the editorial board of Design and Culture journal and is a working member on the board of DesignInquiry, a non-profit organization devoted to researching design issues in intensive team-based gatherings. She holds a BFA from Art Center College of Design and an MFA from California Institute of the Arts. For fun, she cooks, practices drums, and is learning to perform improv comedy.

Paul Diamond is co-founder and co-creative director of DMH, a design and advertising agency in Kansas City. His work has been recognized in numerous local, regional and national award competitions. He received his B.F.A. degree in visual communication from the University of Kansas and attended Syracuse University in New York, where he received a M.A. degree in advertising design.

Contact: Pdiamond@kcai.edu