Linda Bracamontes-Roeger
Associate Professor
Graphic Design
lindabr@uic.edu

Fall 2009 Courses

AD 210 - Graphic Design II  [4 hours ]
10356: LEC, TR 9:00-9:50am, Art & Architecture Building #2318
10354: LAB, TR 10:00-11:40am, Art & Architecture Building #2422
10357: LEC, TR 1:00-1:50pm, Art & Architecture Building #2318
10355: LAB, TR 2:00-3:40pm, Art & Architecture Building #2422

AD 418 - Independent Study in Graphic Design  [1 to 5 hours ]
18367: CNF, by appointment

AD 499 - Cooperative Education  [0 to 4 hours ]
10453: COP, by appointment


Biography:

Linda Bracamontes-Roeger is currently Associate Professor in Graphic Design. From 1992 to 1995 she worked at Morningstar Inc. in Chicago where she developed and implemented corporate identity. From 1997 to 2000 she worked for Day Interactive Switzerland, designing various interactive media. Her current research includes print and interface design.

Bracamontes-Roeger received her advanced Certificate from the Weiterbildung Program at the Schule für Gestaltung in Basel, Switzerland and a BFA from The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). Awards include the 2005 Silver Circle Award for Excellence in Teaching from UIC; the Annual Award for Graphic Design from the Art Directors Club New York in 2004, an AIGA 50 Books/ 50 Covers Award for the book: The Vowels in 2004; and Print’s Regional Design Annual Award in Graphic Design for the book: The Vowels in 2004.

Bracamontes-Roeger’s lectures include Teaching Print to Digital Media: Translating Traditions, at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in Mexico City and The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University; Interactive Typography at Universidad Anáhuac in Mexico City; and From Print to New Media at Universidad Del Valle De Mexico in Queretaro, Mexico. She has organized education conferences including FutureHistory for The American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) and has served as an editor of AIGA Inform Design Journal. She has received grants from Adobe Corporation, the Graham Foundation, and Meadwestvaco. Her work has been exhibited at and is included in the permanent archives of The Denver Art Museum, the AIGA National Design Center, Columbia University and The International Red Cross Museum in Switzerland.