Rachel Fujita

Rachel Fujita and Julie Guirl - Creating Content with Image, Type and Video

SEGD is an amazing community of designers, fabricators and manufacturers who create experiences that connect people to place. One of the many membership benefits of SEGD is a library of talks from SEGD's 4-6 events a year. Starting from 2014, these videos are available for viewing for members for free. If you are a member please log in (hint: top right below search) if not please join SEGD and experience its amazing resources.

What Does it Take to be an Xplorer?

Eldheimar Volcano Museum

You know you need to hone your digital skills to grow your resume and your business. But what are the core digital competencies you should be developing? In June, the SEGD Academic Task Force issued the XGD Core Competencies, which outline the baseline skills essential for success in XGD. You can cover them all at the Xplorer Digital Camp coming up Aug. 6 in Seattle. But hurry—capacity is limited and seats are filling fast!

Be an Xplorer at SEGD Digital Camps

Native Voices at Penn Museum

Being an experiential graphic designer these days is like being an explorer—charting the course of your business or career, scanning the horizon for new opportunities, and scouting the right tools and skills to take advantages of those opportunities. That’s what SEGD’s Xplorer Digital Camps are all about: making sure you’re prepared for the increasingly digital and data-enabled projects in your future. 

>> Attend SEGD Xplorer Digital Camps in Philadelphia or Seattle this summer!

Rachel Esteffe

Rachel (Fujita) Esteffe is a LA based graphic designer, photographer and educator specializing in Experiential Design. She has been blending varying forms of storytelling, design strategies, interactive technologies, UI and UX methodologies for over a decade. Rachel holds a MFA in Computer Art (Motion + Interaction) from SVA and a BA in Visual Arts (Film, video, photography) from Fordham University. She also served as Creative Director of her former collaborative design studios, hyaline and FM Collaborative.

Art Center College of Design
Los Angeles, California

Full Immersion: Beyond the Page + Screen

New Media
University of Idaho College of Art & Architecture

ABSTRACT
This paper examines the potential for integrating Experiential Graphic Design (XGD) within the context of a traditional graphic design/visual communication curriculum. This shift will better prepare students to work in a constantly evolving, competitive, and expanding field of design. Through documented student projects, we explored the development of XGD strategies and methodologies through the blending of traditional graphic design foundations, interactive, and time-based media that transform a user experience beyond the page and screen. The success of this type of new curriculum model is made possible by the co-location of art, design, new media, and architecture in an interdisciplinary college.

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