Silas Munro Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Visiting critic and advisor for graduate students in graphic design. Contribution to 7 day residencies include lectures, workshops and critiques.

Part of the founding faculty body of a Master of Fine Arts Program in Graphic design, in a low-residency format. I served on the admissions panel, organized visiting lectures, curated exhibitions, and advised MFA candidates in graphic design.

Faculty chair of a Master of Fine Arts Program in Graphic design, in a low-residency format. I serve on the admissions panel, organize visiting lectures, curate exhibitions, and advise MFA candidates in graphic design.

Polymode is a studio that leads the edge of contemporary graphic design through poetic research, learning experiences, and making cool shit for clients in the cultural sphere, innovative businesses, and community-based organizations.Our specialties include books, curation, education, exhibition, identities, interfaces, publications, visual design, websites, workshops, and writing. We operate between the complexity of designed systems and lived experience—our core principles of visual expression, media adaptability, and typographic function.As a bi-coastal, LGBTQ+, and Minority-owned studio with offices in Inglewood, California, and Raleigh, North Carolina, Polymode ignites change to create social and sustainable impact. We operate with the ethos of Studio as family.Our clients include Art Gallery of Ontario, City of Los Angeles Mayor’s Office, Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, David Kordansky Gallery, Hauser & Wirth, Institute of Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, Mark Bradford at the Venice Biennale, MOCA, MoMA, The New Museum, Phaidon Press, Phoenix House, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, Orange County Museum of Art, and Studio Museum in Harlem.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Faculty of communication Arts and BFA Coordinator of Graphic Design. Lead research, writing, critical theory, and studio development for undergraduate and graduate students in graphic design. Writing design curriculum with a focus on human experience and contemporary technology. Research interests include: designer’s personal identity, formal systems and strategies, and how both interact with the communities s/he serves.

Santa Monica, California, Us

Snap Design Academy is a technology and design program for LA-based community college students. The five-week program provides training, tools and skills that are relevant to today’s technology and design industries. The academy’s mission is to improve career prospects of young Angelenos through design education and experiences. Sponsored by Snap Inc., Snap Design Academy was presented in collaboration with the LATech.org

Oxford, Oh, Us

Tenure-Track Faculty in Graphic Design, Faculty Affiliate, Interactive Media Studies, and Graduate Director MFA Program in Experience Design (XD:MFA)My current research investigates the discipline of graphic design through five key nodes: (1) formal investigation via iteration and prototyping; (2) empathy employed for insight and human understanding; (3) speculation and fiction as imaginative tools for future systems and scenarios; (4) pedagogy as a site for innovation and experimentation; and (5) building agency for the designer within the socio-cultural fabric of society;

We are a design cooperative that connects learning to a wide swath of communities. Based in South Florida, our accessible workshops support creative learning by doing. We employ emerging and existing technologies in a model that engages diverse audiences.M:O:S (Miami : Open : Source) seeks to cultivate the use of technology in the arts to ultimately benefit underrepresented communities. We seek to do this through a community space — part school, part production-shop, part-design studio.Funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

Boca Raton, Fl, Us

Faculty for Visual Design Lab I, Typographic Design Lab I, Typographic Design Lab II and Technology Intensive. 4-credit studios ranged from design fundamentals, technology skills, beginning and intermediate typographic skills for undergraduate graphic design majors and art students.

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•Lead visual identity and communications in print, online, and environmental channels for a multifaceted non-profit operating in HIV/AIDS advocacy, life saving healthcare and services, and entrepreneurial businesses•Directed a comprehensive rebranding of the organization that spanned diverse media and audiences•Supervised a a small group of designers in a fast-paced in-house design department

Baltimore, Md, Us

-Lead a wide breadth of studio courses for undergraduate and graduate students-Taught a diverse range of skills and media including: general design principles, typography, motion graphics, interactive design, publicaiton and type design

Raleigh, North Carolina, Us

•Taught imaging and core studio classes in a newly applied undergraduate curriculum •Crafted a core junior studio, Form as a Mode of Thought based on my masters thesis research•Shaped a residency involving self-initiated work in an academic environment

Hybrid graphic design studio producing award-winning graphic design and branding for varied audiences across media that is beautiful, smart with empathy for humanity.

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•Contracted to work on corporate communication and design strategy from packaging to larger brand picture

Kuala Lumpur, My

•Freelance illustration and image making for Yasmin Khan and Michael Worthington for CalArts 2009–2011 Bulletin

Valencia, Ca, Us

•Assisted in the teaching of Michael Worthington’s graduate graphic design students•Wrote and tought the final studio project, Alter Ego based on my masters thesis research•Ran technical workshops

Valencia, Ca, Us

•Wrote syllabi for Shelley Step in graphic design program for high school students •Taught design and technology skills

•Lead Book Designer with Lorraine Wild for The Franklin D.Murphy Sculpture Garden at UCLA•Lead Exhibition Designer for Orange County Museum of Art's Exhibition "The Birth of the Cool" Collaborated with Lorraine Wild, Frederick Fisher & Partners, and Elizabeth Armstrong Chief Curator, Deputy Director.

Designed and art directed viewbooks, magazines, invitations, and printed matter for schools and cultural institutions. responsibilities included concept development, writing coordination, photography art direction and client presentations. Recently contracted to restructure and redesign their company web presence.

Mclean, Virginia, Us

Lead design on Annual Reports, corporate communication, print communications, from concept generation, client presentation, art direction and final production.

Chicago, Il, Us

•Specialized in corporate communications, identity design, and advertising•Developed presentations, attended press approvals•Clients included Caterpillar, Comcast and IBM

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Designed promotional materials for multidisciplinary programs. Shaped projects from client meetings through design development to their final production.

Annandale, Va, Us

•Summer Instructor for Creative Computer Camps for rising grades 3—5 and 6—9•Taught Adults technlogy skills

Providence, Rhode Island, Us

•Provided feedback during class-wide and individual critiques in an intermediate typography class•Led software and production demonstrations

Providence, Rhode Island, Us

I supervised a team of 18 Resident Assistants. I lead weekly meetings, on-going team building, monthly supervisions. I was an active member of the hiring and placement of RAs in both first year and upperclassmen housing.This was an elected position by RA peers and profesional staff.

Bachelors Of Fine Art, Graphic Design

Mfa, Graphic Design

Bachelor Of Fine Arts - Bfa, Graphic Design, Art, Poetry