UGA Graphic Design Faculty Jang and Spivey won Silver Award for Micro/Macro Typography from the 2024 UCDA Design Awards

Associate Professor of Graphic Design Moon Jang and Professor of Graphic Design Julie Spivey have co-taught ARGD 4030: Advanced Typography before. In 2023, their course outcomes were transformed into a design exhibition Micro/Macro Typography (directed by Jang and co-curated by Jang and Spivey), which was exhibited at C-U-B-E in the Lamar Dodd School of Art main building. This year, their design won a Silver Award from the 2024 UCDA (the University & College Designers Association) Design Awards. The UCDA awards honor individuals who showcase remarkable design & innovation. These awards support a broader educational initiative and facilitation of creativity. 

Their poster design will be exhibited in the 2024 UCDA Design Awards Show Presented by Foleon. The award judges evaluated 950 entries and awarded 220 awards—25 Gold Awards, 63 Silver Awards, and 132 Awards of Excellence. Jang and Spivey will be recognized at the UCDA Design Conference in Indianapolis, Indiana, on the main stage on September 26, and the awarded work, Micro/Macro Typography, will be displayed at the conference through September 28. Furthermore, Creative Quarterly 74 selected the poster as a runner-up winner (2023) and published it in their online gallery on April 1, 2024.

About the 2024 UCDA Design Awards Competition

For over 20 years, the UCDA Design Awards Competition has recognized the best of exceptional design and creative work as part of our mission to promote design excellence, support educational institutions, and drive the exchange of ideas and information relating to the unique role creatives play in education and the world.

The UCDA Design Awards are judged by a hand-picked panel of peer jurors composed of designers, design educators, photographers, and illustrators working in or doing a significant portion of their work for educational institutions—they understand the environments in which you create.

About Moon Jung Jang

Moon Jung Jang is a graphic designer, visual artist, and teacher. Her primary research involves narrative systems such as Multiple Narratives in Visual Form, Polyhedralness as Multiple Narratives, and Color Value in Space-Time and promotion design for socio-cultural events and art exhibitions such as symbol, logotype, book, and poster design. Her work has been presented in solo exhibitions, Disturbed Boundaries (2009), A Minor Arc (2010), and % (2012). Her graphic design has appeared internationally and nationally in many exhibitions such as The Tranava Poster Triennial (Slovakia); The International Poster Triennial (Japan); The International Poster and Graphic Arts Festival of Chaumont (France); The Golden Bee Moscow International Biennale of Graphic Design; Print Regional Annual Competition (USA); Annual UCDA Design (USA); 365: AIGA (New York, USA); AIGA SEED Award GALA (Atlanta, USA). She is an assistant professor of graphic design at the University of Georgia, Lamar Dodd School of Art, in Athens, Georgia (USA).

About Julie Spivey

Julie Spivey has a mix of professional and academic design experience and maintains an active design practice, Type-A Creative, where she focuses on projects related to information visualization, publication design, and typography. Spivey’s design work has been published in various monographs and recognized by AIGA (the professional organization for design), UCDA (University & College Designers; Association), Print magazine, Communication Arts and Creative Quarterly, among others.

She has collaborated with multidisciplinary UGA teams on various funded projects including multi-year NOAA/Sea Grant projects that aimed to assist coastal communities in preparing for rising sea levels and increasing severe weather hazards. Currently she is working with faculty in marine science to create an open-source tool for visualizing data related to deep ocean habitats in a changing climate. 

Spivey is a former co-chair of the national Steering Committee for the AIGA Design Educators Community, which works to forward design education initiatives and represent the many educators and student members in this professional design organization.

She holds a BA in Journalism & Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MFA from East Carolina University.