Rozina Vavetsi
Title:
Assistant Professor
Degrees:
MS Pratt Institute
BA University of Athens
Contact:
Manhattan:
New Technology Building
16 W 61st Street
Room 917
212.281.1791
e-mail:
Personal Links/Files:
Areas of Scholarly and Artistic Interest:
- Information Architecture and Usability
- Logos and Corporate Identity
- Editorial Design and Typography
- Children's Illustration
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Career Summary:
Professor Vavetsi grew up in Greece and attended the University of Athens where she majored in Education. After college, she taught at several schools in Athens. In 1999, she moved to New York City and in 2001 earned her MS in Communication Design at Pratt Institute. She joined the faculty at NYIT as an Adjunct Professor in 2002 and will be teaching as an Assistant Professor starting in the fall of 2004.
Professor Vavetsi’s interests include Curriculum Development (she's currently developing a curriculum to be distributed to all Greek-American schools in the USA). In the area of design education, She is interested in the quantitative and qualitative measures of design success: information architecture and theory, usability and human factors analysis. She also likes spicing her classes with heavy doses of real-world case studies.
Professor Vavetsi’s design passions are typography and creating hand-detailed greeting cards.
Selected Exhibitions:
"Reaction", Pratt Institute, New York, New York, Autumn 2001
“Possibilities”, Gallery 61, 2006.
“HOW Commemorative Poster”, Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2006.
“Urban Forest Project”, Times Square, NY 2006.
Selected Publications:
Lincoln Square Business Improvement District (BID). NYC, NY. 2006. “Opening Doors and Building Bridges” logo design
Kate Beckman, NYC, NY. 2006
www.katebeckman.com. Website design.
NYIT, NYC, NY. 2005-present
http://iris.nyit.edu/asc. Website design
The Emotionally Healthy Church, NYC, NY. 2005.
Book design.
Primordial Design, NYC, NY. September 2004-present.
Information architecture and usability.
Book design and layout.
Recommended web sites:
Core77 ˜ Design Magazine and Resource
http://www.core77.com
UseIt Information Design and Usability
http://www.useit.com
American Institute of Graphic Artists
http://www.aiga.org
Recommended publications:
Print, America's Graphic Design Magazine, RC Publications, Inc., bi-monthly.
Edward Tufte, Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities,
Evidence and Narrative, Graphics Press, 1997.
Richard Saul Wurman, Understanding, TED Conferences, Inc., 1999.