As part of a recent round of curation of submissions, the West Michigan Graphic Design Archives has accepted the Weathering Emotions exhibit into its collection. The curator noted that the exhibit is exemplary of collaborative problem-solving with a challenging purpose: to help children and families explore and process emotions. In addition to its focus on […]

Did you always know you wanted to pursue Graphic Design?  When I was young, I didn’t know what graphic design was. I wanted to be an inventor. Later, my middle school acquired several Commodore PET computers—with eight kilobytes of memory and a cassette drive for saving and loading programs. I asked if I could take […]

UPDATE: Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances, we have made the difficult decision to postpone this event. Updated information will be shared soon. Thank you for your interest! Join us at the Grand Rapids Children’s Museum on September 9, from 5:30 until 8:00 p.m. We’ll tour the Weathering Emotions Exhibit, and then hear a panel of curators, designers, and fabricators […]

Did you always know you wanted to pursue Graphic Design?  For most of high school, I had planned on being a physical therapist. It was in the math and science track, and I was excited by its proximity to sports and fitness. But by the end of high school, I didn’t want to do more […]

In early October, twenty-five junior students from the Western Michigan University Graphic Design Program made an in-person visit to the archives. In preparation, Instructor of Graphic Design Brian Edlefson had chosen more than 20 items from the collection, spanning the 1940s to the present. “I wanted students to review the primary sources,” Brian explains; “to […]