Crossmind.net, Ninth Letter website was selected as innovative/creative sites. 2006
Print Magazine Regional Design Annual, featured Ninth Letter, Nov/Dec 2006
How Design Magazine, International Design Awards,
Ninth Letter, April 2006
Applied Arts. Student Awards 2006, featured Ninth Letter, April 2006
Step Inside Design Magazine, Interview, features Ninth Letter, success and how it impacts our design curriculum, 2006
Council of Editors of Learned Journals, Modern Language Association Ninth Letter selected as Best New Literary Journal, 2006
Best New Literary Journal, Modern Language Association, Ninth Letter Magazine, 2006
SXSW 2005 Interactive Web Awards competition, Ninthletter.com; finalist, 2005
Apple International Design Competition,
Bronze award, IDN Magazine, Hong Kong, 1999
Type Directors Club, Typography 17, Certificate of Excellence, 1997
University Scholar, UIUC, 2003-06
Instructional Award, College Excellence in Research, UIUC, 2001
Faculty Fellow, National Center for Supercomputing Applications,UIUC, 2000
Outstanding Teaching Award, College of Fine and Applied Arts, 2004
Center for Advanced Study Fellow, 1996
American Center for Design Nineteenth International Annual 100 Show,
Competition Design Award, 1996
The 75th Art Directors Club Annual,
Distinctive Merit Award, New York, NY, 1996
University & College Designers Association (UCDA)
Award of Excellence, 1996
Jurors Choice, Type Directors Club, New York, NY, 1994
Exhibitions + Competitions: GD USA, Impact Book, Ninth Letter, and UIUC School of Art and Design BFA Exhibition Catalogue were all selected as winners in the 2006 American Inhouse Design Awards out of 3500 entries by the editors of Graphic Design USA, 2005
SXSW. Ninthletter.com was selected as a finalist in the art category of the SXSW (South by Southwest) Interactive Competition, 2005
The Spines That Bind, Buddy Holly Center, Texas Tech. University, Lubbock, Texas, May 2003
THAW, Film Festival 2002, The Institute for Cinema and Culture, University of Iowa, International film competition, 2002
Imagine 2002, International exhibition and conference, The University of Gavle, Sweden, 2002
Constant, VZW, Verbindingen-jonctions 4, International Multimedia Exhibition, Brussels,
Musuem of New Media, 2000
Urban Futures 2000 International Conference, University Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2000
Siggraph, Art Gallery, Urban Futures 2000 International Conference,
New Orleans, LA, July 2000
University Art Gallery, University of Johannesburg, South Africa, 2000
Centre/Centrum Bruxelles/Brussel 2000, International invitational, 2000
Art & Science Collaborations,Inc. (ASCI) Digital 2000 Competition
.Central Fine Arts Gallery in SoHo, NYC,
.Technology Gallery at The New York Hall of Science,
.Silicon Gallery in Philadelphia 2000
Johnson Museum of Art, Contact Zones: the art of cd-rom, Cornell University, NY,
traveled to Hobarth and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, 1999
Centro de la Imagen, Festival de video y Artes Electrnicas, Mexico City, 1999
Forum for Contemporary Art, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 1999
University of Virginia in Charlottesville, 12th Virginia Film Festival,
Charlottesville, VA, 1999
Midwest Photographer's Project, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College
Chicago, IL, 1998
Northern Illinois University, Substance: A Corporeal Examination,
Chicago, IL, 1998
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, In One's Own Voice:
Designer as Author, Boston, MA, 1998
University of Michigan School of Art & Design, Immedia: Hybrid Digital
Media Show, Ann Arbor, MI, 1997
American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), 50 Books/ 50 Cover, NY, NY, 1997
Ithaca College, Flaherty Film Seminar, Ithaca, NY, 1997
Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY, 1996
Henie Onstad Art Centre, Electra, Oslo, Norway, 1996
Art Directors Club, 75th National Awards Competition, NY, NY,1996
Type Directors Club 42 (TDC42) Exhibition, Houghton Jr. Gallery, The Cooper Union, NY, NY, 1996
American Institute of Graphic Arts, Nineteenth Annual 100 Show, Strathmore Gallery, NY, NY, 1996
University & College Designers Association (UCDA), Annual Conference, Santa Fe, NM, 1996
Benedicta Arts Center, College of Saint Benedict, St. Joseph, MN,1996
University of Iowa Museum of Art, THAW 96: A Festival of Film,
Video, and Digital Media, 1996
Pandeaemonium, London's International Festival of Moving Image,
London, England, 1996
Palm Beach Photographic Museum, Digital Image, Delray Beach, FL, 1996
Center for the Visual Arts, Illinois State University, Normal, IL, 1996
International Symposium and Exhibition on Electronic Art, ISEA 95, Montr←al, Canada, 1995
Ricco/Maresca Gallery, Code, 152 Wooster Street, NY, NY, 1995
Centre Georg←s Pompidou, Revue Virtuelle Hypermedia, Paris, France, 1995
Electronic Design Association, Dot, Pixel, Image, Boca Raton, FL, 1995
University and College Designers Association (UCDA) Annual Exhibition, Kiawah Island, SC, 1994
Grants: CRI, critical research grant, UIUC, Ninth Letter planning grant, $60,000, 2006
Apple Laptop Matching Grant, in support of Writing with Video Project in collaboration with the Provost office, UIUC, ($200,000) 2006
Arts and Technology Initiative, Chancellors Grant, Ninth Letter and ninthletter.com, ($175,000), 2004-05
Seedbed Initiative, 360, ($12,000), Nov. 2004
University Scholars Research Fund, ($30,000) 2003-06
Faculty Fellowship, National Center for Supercomputing (NCSA), Fine and Applied Arts, 2000-2001
CRI, Critical Research Initiative Award, @art, Exploration of Technologies to Support the Emergence of new Art Forms, 2001-2003, (award: $122.506.00 for the two years)
College of Fine and Applied Arts Special Projects Grant, 2000
Research Board Grant, UIUC
.Multimedia Funding,1997
.Multimedia/Krannert Art Museum, 1998
.Art Gallery - Japanese Collaboration,1999
.@art portal, 2000
Scholars Travel Grants, UIUC, 1977, 1998,1999, 2000, 2001, 2002
Francis P. Rohlen Grants, Visiting Artists Grants, UIUC, 1995, 1999, 2002
Educational Technologies Board and Sun Company, Java Development Grant, ETB Java Subcommittee, 1997
POV, Point of View, Public Television, Finalist, 1998
International Programs and Studies, travel: Etvs Lor£nd University in Budapest Hungary,1988
Project Grant, Advanced Information Technologies Group, UIUC, 1996, 1997
Applications of Learning Technologies in Higher Education, UIUC, 1996
Center for Advanced Study Fellowship, Spring Semester.1996
International Research Support Grants, UIUC, 1995
NEA, National Endowment for the Arts, Inside the Loop: Art as Signal, publication, 1995
Work in Print: Book
Contributor to: A Visual Approach to Web Usability
Hungry Minds Inc. 10475 Crosspoint Blvd., Indianapolis, IN
SBN: 0764536745; 1st edition, June 2002
Step by Step Graphics Exhibition, Book Design 2001
The Computer in the Visual Arts, Spalter, Addison Wesley Longman Publish-ing, INC., Anne Morgan, Brown University, 1999, pp.426-427
Cultural Treasures of the Internet, 2nd Edition, Prentice-Hall,
Michael Clark, Feb. 1997, p. 86
Adobe PageMill 2.0 Handbook, Rita Clark, Hayden Books, Indianapolis, IN, April 1997, p. 295
Elements of Web Design, Peachpit Press, Darci DiNucci, Berkeley CA., March 1997, p. 86
Most Popular Web Sites: The Best of the Web from A to Z, English,
Katherine, Lycos Press, Oct. 1996, p. 12
Black, White, and Gray, Fresh Ideas for Designing, Gail Deibler Finke, North Light Books, Cincinnati, OH, 1996, pp.118, and 48-49
Prints Best, Booklets & Brochures, RD Publications, New York, NY, April 1995, p.42
Sixteenth Annual 100 Show Annual, Watson-Guptill Publications, American Center for Design, NY, two design pieces reproduced, Jan. 1994, pp. 112-113, 206-7
More Great Design, Supon Design Publishing, Washington D.C., Dec. 1994
Magazine
International Designers Network (IDN), The Digital Design Magazine, Laur-ence Ng Publishing, Wanchai, Hong Kong, Tammy Cheung, ?And the winners are?, ONE/Vol.6 No.1; 1999, p. 39
Wired, "Runaway Technology", Tom Claburn, Vol 5., No.11, San Francisco, CA, Nov. 1997, p. 230
The Art Directors Annual, Art Directors Club, 75th Awards Competi-tion,
RotoVision SA, Switzerland, July 1996
Typography 17, Watson-Guptill Publications, Type Directors Club
Annual, New York, NY, June 1996
Step-by-Step Graphics, Design Process Annual 1996, Step-By-Step
Publishing, Peoria, IL, Aug. 1996, p. 162
Print Magazine, "A Room With A View Into Digital Realm", Darcy DiNucci, NY, NY, July 1996, pp. 58-67
The Best in Catalog Design, Quarto Pro Art Research Centre, London, Great Britain, Jan. 1995