Department of Art

Dan works with clients in the U.S. and abroad. A consultant for seven years, he is particularly drawn to feisty start-ups and organizations doing effective work for social betterment. He is involved with three main clusters of research activity and practice: motionworks (especially burgeoning forms of the motion poster), experimental typography, and experience design.

Recent recognition includes permanent exhibition at the Science Centre Singapore, a Brand New award for motion identity work, and publication in Stop, Think, Go, Do: How Typography and Graphic Design Influence Behavior (Rockport) and OFFF Year Zero (Index Books). Dan’s motion work appears in various venues including exhibitions, film festivals and other events in North America, Asia and Europe. Several of his posters have been exhibited globally, and on occasion, he writes about design-related issues.

Because habits of experimentation open new visual territories, Dan’s motion and typographic design often mines themes of emerging nanotechnologies, biomechatronics and biomedical engineering. In this vein he is fascinated with the aesthetic and conceptual territories through which we are attempting to navigate in the dawn of the bio-tech revolution.

An advocate of the cross-disciplinary perspective that animates experience design processes and activities, Dan is also currently investigating the motion poster as a medium of cross-platform engagement.