Oscar Fernandez

Associate Professor

School of Design

513 556 6275
6415B Aronoff
fernano@ucmail.uc.edu

BS in Art/Lamar University/1973
MFA in Graphic Design/Yale University/1976

Autumn Quarter 2009 Courses

23DGTL241 Visible Language Design I
23DGTL388 Independent Studies
23DGTL411 Design Ideation III
23DGTL488 Independent Studies
23DGTL511 Digital Design Methodology
23FDST731 Design Graduate Studies
23FDST831 Design Graduate Studies

Topics of research and/or creative and professional work

Visual communication design history
Information graphics
Wayfinding, as it applies to both the environmental and digital realms

Recent Work

One of five American graphic designers, along with five Cuban colleagues, who participated in an AIGA Cross-Cultural Design Program. Concluding collaborative work was exhibited during the VI International Digital Art Exhibit and Colloquium in Havana, Cuba, in summer 2004.

An associate professor in the School of Design, Professor Fernández specializes in visual identity systems, information design, document programs, book design and comprehensive wayfinding systems. He previously held adjunct and associate professorships of design at Carnegie Mellon University, the Maine College of Art, the University of Cincinnati, The Ohio State University and Montana State University. His more than 20 years of professional experience have included graphic design work for architecture firms as well as design director roles at Wexner Center for the Arts, VIA, Fitch Worldwide and Eyethink, which he helped launch. Professor Fernández's award-winning work has been included in GRAPHIS Posters 2002, Typography 20, GRAPHIS Design Annual 2000 and the AIGA Graphic Design Annual 19. In 1997, a retrospective of his work was exhibited at Ohio University's Trissolini Gallery in Athens, Ohio.

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