Faculty Profiles

Housing Design

CAROL C. WALDRON
Senior Lecturer, Assistant Professor

Graphic Design Program
Department of Design, Housing, and Apparel
246g McNeal Hall

1985 Buford Ave.

St. Paul, MN 55108-6136
(612) 624-3633
cwaldron@umn.edu

Specialties & Expertise:

  • Graphic Design
  • Color Theory
  • Typography
  • Design and Production of Handmade Books     

Course Titles (resident and outreach teaching):

  • DHA 1312 Foundations II: Color and Design in Two and Three Dimensions
  • DHA 4352 Design Process: Bookmaking
  • DHA 4196 Internship in DHA
  • DHA 4345 Advanced Typographic Design
  • DHA 5193 Directed Study : image/sequence/design
  • DHA 5196 Design in Europe (with Stephanie Watson)
     Selected Scholarship:
  • 2001 “Color in Graphic Design: An Analysis of Meaning and Trends” AIC Color ’01 The Ninth Congress of the International Colour Association -Paper Presented at Conference
  • 2001 “Integrating Design Knowledge: From Two to Three Dimensions.” Panel: Off the Page, the 3-D Assignment FATE Foundations in Art: Theory and Education , 8th Biennial National Conference: ‘Taking Risks’ @ MassArt, Boston, Massachusetts March 2001. Paper Presented at Conference
  • INTERPLAY Prespectives on the Design Legacy of Jack Lenor Larsen. -Exhibition Publication
  • 2000 Paul Whitney Larson Gallery—University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Invitational Exhibition
  • 2001 “Color in Graphic Design: An Analysis of Meaning and Trends” (with Barbara Martinson) AIC Color ’01 The Ninth Congress of the International Colour Association Rochester, New York, June 2001. Paper Presented at Conference
  • “Color in Graphic Design: An Analysis of Meanings and Trends” AIC 2001 The 9th Congress of the International Association of Colour (co-authored with Barbara Martinson), June 2001. -Publication at Conference Preceedings      

Professional, Institutional, and Community Leadership and Service:

  • 2001—present CHE P&A (Academic Professionals and Administrators) Consultative Committee
  • 2000—present CHE Program Chairs Committee
  • 2002—present member TCDC Font Jury: University of Minnesota Design Institute (Twin Cities design Celebration) international font design competition/commission
  • 2000—present DHA Curriculum Committee
  • 2000—present Friends of the Goldstein, Goldstein Museum of Design, University of Minnesota
      Awards:
  • 1999 CHE Excellence in Academic Advising Award nominee
  • 1997 CHE Excellence in Academic Advising Award nominee