Annabelle Gould

Director, School of Art + Art History + Design

Wyckoff Milliman Endowed Chair in Art

Professor, Visual Communication Design

ART 102D

agould@uw.edu

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Fields of Interest

Background and Experience

Summary

Education

MFA, 2D Design, Cranbrook Academy of Art, 1999

BFA, Graphic Design, North Carolina State University, 1993

Professor Annabelle Gould joined the Division of Design in 2003. Her focus is on teaching typography as a primary means of communication and creative expression. Her creative scholarship is centered on designing publications for arts and cultural clients including Chronicle Books, the Traver Gallery, Lead Pencil Studios, Marquand Books and the University of Washington. She has been an adjunct instructor at the Art Center College of Design and Otis College of Art and Design, both in Los Angeles.

Annabelle is an active member of the AIGA and served as co-chair of the AIGA's national Design Educators Community Steering Committee (DEC) from 2015–2017. Her design work has been recognized in the AIGA 50 Books/50 Covers competition, the Type Director’s Club, the Society of Publication Designers, and Print Magazine. In 2012, she collaborated with her colleague Karen Cheng to produce an issue of ARCADE Magazine on the topic of design education.

Annabelle is the creator and designer of the AIGA Design Teaching Resource, a peer-populated platform where educators can share classroom assignments, results, learning goals and project reflections.

Annabelle recently spoke about her views on design education in the podcast ThisIsDesign.School.

Professional Affiliations

American Institute of Graphic Arts

Research + Creative Work

Annabelle Gould. AIGA Design Teaching Resource, a peer-populated platform where educators can post assignments, results, reflections, and other teaching materials.
Annabelle Gould. Spread from Blue: Cobalt to Cerulean in Art and Culture, a 192-page book featuring work from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston’s collection, designed for Chronicle Books.
Annabelle Gould. Magazine design for ARCADE (Issue 35.3, Winter 2017), a publication dedicated to architecture and design in the Northwest.

Research Advised: Graduate Masters Theses

Ann Mathew. "Person First — Designing for a Dementia Inclusive Society. How might we augment our physical environments to create a dementia-inclusive society while improving the sense of personhood.”MDes Thesis, University of Washington, 2024. Read more
Eason Yang. "NOT ENTIRELY DEAD." MDes Thesis, University of Washington, 2022. Read more
Taylor Miles Hopkins. "Tomorrow’s Book: Artifacts in the Anthropocene." MDes Thesis, University of Washington, 2021. Read more
Piper Loyd. "22 Ways to Explore 203 Books." MDes Thesis, University of Washington, 2020. Read more
Franklin Vandiver. "Deficiency, inventory." MDes Thesis, University of Washington, 2019. Read more
Clare Ortblad. "Indisposable Tales: Visual Storytelling to Reduce Plastic Waste." MDes Thesis, University of Washington, 2019. Read more
Coreen Callister. "Listening by Design." MDes Thesis, University of Washington, 2019. Read more

Courses Taught

Winter 2024

DESIGN 209 A: Fundamentals of Typography

Autumn 2023

Winter 2022

Autumn 2021

Spring 2021

DESIGN 369 A: Visual Systems

Winter 2021

Autumn 2020

DESIGN 376 A: Typography

Spring 2020

Winter 2020

Autumn 2019

Spring 2019

Winter 2019

Autumn 2018

Spring 2018

Winter 2018

Autumn 2017

Winter 2017

Autumn 2016

Spring 2016

DESIGN 365 A: Developing Solutions In Design

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