Sharon Oiga
Assistant Professor
Graphic Design
oiga@uic.edu

Fall 2009 Courses

AD 219 - Typography I  [4 hours ]
10360: LEC, MW 4:00–4:50pm, Art & Architecture Building #2400B
10358: LAB, MW 5:00–6:40pm, Art & Architecture Building #2400B

AD 411 - Graphic Design Professional Practice  [0 to 5 hours ]
23967: LEC, MW 1:00–1:50pm, Art & Architecture Building #2410
23968: LEC, MW 1:00–1:50pm, Art & Architecture Building #2410
23969: LAB, MW 2:00–3:40pm, Art & Architecture Building #2410

AD 418 - Independent Study in Graphic Design  [1 to 5 hours ]
18366: CNF, by appointment

AD 499 - Cooperative Education  [0 to 4 hours ]
25769: COP, by appointment


Biography:

Sharon Oiga received her MFA in Graphic Design from Yale University. Her BFA degrees, in Graphic Design and Photography, were earned at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Most of her professional experience was gained from working at multidisciplinary design firms in Chicago. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor in the UIC School of Art and Design program where she teaches both graduate and undergraduate level students in the areas of Typography, Professional Practice, and Thesis. Her research agenda involves design processes, experimental typography, and self-authorship in design. She developed and taught coursework at UIC that was funded by two grants awarded by Sappi Ideas That Matter. Her work has been recognized numerously by Print, Step, Graphic Design USA, The Chicago Athenaeum, the Society of Typographic Arts, and the University and College Designers Association. She was Programming Co-chair of the 2009 AIGA Future History 3 design education conference on curriculum and, most recently, she has been invited to Atlanta to give two presentations at TypeCon, a conference on the advancement of typography.