Gary Dickson
Associate Lecturer, Design
Details
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College: School of Communication & Design
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Department: School of Communication & Design
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Campus: Hanoi Campus Vietnam
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gary.dickson@rmit.edu.vn
About
After working for ten years as a practicing designer, Gary transitioned into academia. Before coming to RMIT, he spent eight years at Indiana University doing research, creating and teaching new curriculum for graphic design, human-computer interaction design (HCI-D), game design, and design thinking for non-designers.
Awards & recognition:
- 2008 Creativeshake — Bronze Award for graduation announcement, Merit Award for JournalAnywhere identity and Merit Award for JournalAnywhere ad series
- 2006 Portfolio.com — Merit Award for Brevium identity
- 2004 Portfolio.com — Merit Award for Epidemic Design’s postcards
Industry experience:
Bielenberg Design, HL2, Epidemic Design (self-employed)
Academic positions
- Visting Assistant Professor, Research Assistant
- Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis
- Indianapolis, United States
- 2011 – 2019
- Research assistant & teaching assistant
- North Carolina State University
- Raleigh, United States
- 2010 – 2011
- Adjunct
- Cornish College of the Arts
- Seattle, United States
- 2005 – 2009
Teaching interests
Design Studies, visual design, user-experience design, interaction, design, design thinking
Research interests
The creation, development, propagation, and evolution of design methods
