Faculty and Staff Biographies

JUDITH MOLDENHAUER
Associate Professor in Graphic Design. M.F.A., University of Wisconsin, Madison, Her design work lies in the area of "information design" which enables people to easily access and use information by focusing on the organizational and navigational aspects of visual and verbal material. Her design work ranges from exhibition catalogues and posters for the Detroit Institute of Arts to educational materials for Healthy Start, a US Department of Health and Human Services program to reduce high infant mortality. She has received many design awards including awards from the American Association of Museums and Graphic Design: usa. Currently, she and a group of advanced graphic design students are designing multi-media computer-based instruction for manufacturing engineering students through the Greenfield Coalition, funded by the National Science Foundation.

Tammy Evans
Assistant Professor in Graphic Design. M.F.A., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Professional membership includes the Society for Environmental Graphic Design (SEGD), Association for Computing Machinery and its special interest group for Graphic Design (SIGGRAPH). Areas of research include legibility studies with the aging for interior wayfinding signage and graphical interface design. Her legibility research, published by SEGD with an award from ASI Sign Systems, was influential in establishing new guidelines for the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The focus of her design work is information architecture and message design of visual communications. Professional works have included identity systems and informational publications for health care institutions such as the University of Michigan Medical Center and corporate communications for Electronic Data Systems.

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