Dana Ezzell

Background

About Dana Ezzell

I have over 25 years of experience as a professional graphic designer with specific areas of interest in typography, visual poetry, critical reading and writing, print design, and interactive/web design. My professional practice centers around print and web projects for various clients, while my creative research focuses on discovering the potential that words have to communicate on a deeper level than merely speaking, reading, or writing them. I engage them as living matter and use them as typographic landscapes to stimulate imagination. Before joining the Meredith faculty, I worked as a graphic design professor at Auburn University in Auburn, AL. My forte and passion is typography, and I take pride in both the creative process and the creative potential held within a printed design or interactive work. My design work has been recognized in several publications, such as Print Magazine’s Regional Design Annual, the Applied Arts Awards Annual, American Corporate Identity, the Big Book of Logos 4, the CASE awards, among others. In addition to teaching full-time and directing the Graphic Design Program, I serve as the Art Director for the North Carolina Literary Review (NCLR)(a literary journal). I also serve Meredith College as a Creative Director of the Circus Design Studio at Meredith College (a real-world in-house design studio) and Faculty Design Advisor for “The Colton Review” (art and literary journal) and the AIGA Meredith College Student Group.