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Arden Stern

Associate Professor
Humanities and Sciences

Biography

Arden Stern is a design historian whose scholarship focuses on graphic design and visual culture in the United States from the 19th century through the present. Arden is currently an Assistant Professor of Humanities & Sciences at ArtCenter College of Design and has also served as Visiting Faculty in the Department of Anthropology at Wayne State University. Arden received a doctorate in Visual Studies from the University of California, Irvine, and a bachelor’s degree in Art-Semiotics from Brown University, and has been the recipient of research fellowships from the Winterthur Library and the American Antiquarian Society as well as ArtCenter's Samsung-endowed Faculty Enrichment Grant and the Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography Educator Grant. Arden has contributed to various scholarly and journalistic publications, including the Design & Culture journal, Design Issues, and Print magazine.

Classes

  • HHIS-121-01: Visual and Material Cultures 1
  • HHIS-340-01: Graphic Design History 2
  • HSOC-284-01: Life Without Objects
  • GMDP-509-01: Critical Histories 2
  • HHIS-402-01: Critical Histories 2
  • HHIS-401-01: Critical Histories 1

Publications

  • Forthcoming: \&, quot, Freaks of Fancy, Revisited: 19th-Century Ornamented Typography in the 21st Century.\&, quot, Design Issues 32.4 (2016).

  • \&, quot, Domesticating the Global: Sign Writing and Visual Culture in Lusaka, Zambia.\&, quot, Design &, amp, Culture 6.3 (2014).

  • \&, quot, Arial: An Apologia.\&, quot, Theorizing Visual Studies: Writing Through the Discipline. Eds. James Elkins, Kristi McGuire, Maureen Burns, Alicia Chester, and Joel Kuennen. New York: Routledge, 2012.

  • \&, quot, The Street Museum: Sign Painting as Art and History.\&, quot, KCET: Departures, September 2, 2011.

  • \&, quot, Paint the Town: Street Signage in Lusaka, Zambia.\&, quot, Print Magazine. June 2009.

Memberships

  • AIGA
  • Design History Society
  • American Studies Association

Awards

  • Faculty Enrichment Grant, Art Center College of Design (2013)
  • Humanities Center Research Grant, University of California, Irvine (2010)
  • Short-Term Research Fellowship, Winterthur Library (2009)
  • Jay and Deborah Last Fellowship in American Visual Culture, American Antiquarian Society (2009)
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