Faculty
Todd Childers
Associate Professor, Coordinator of BGSU AIGA Student Group, Typographic Design, Design History, Publication Design
M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), Visual Communication (Graphic Design), 1993; B.E.D.,
North Carolina State University, Visual Design (Graphic Design), 1986.
Todd has designed several typefaces that are presently being distributed through Garage Fonts typefoundry. He has designed publications, web pages, corporate identities, and poster layouts. His interests include: furniture design, architecture, design history, art films.
Faculty member since 1994.
Amy Fidler is a full-time faculty member at Bowling Green State University, and is a practicing designer at her studio, Fidler Design. Her research interests include sustainability, book design and collaborative projects. She is a co-founder & organizer of the Summer Workshop for Experimentation and Thought (SWEAT) and co-editor of the book Toledo Remanufactured: Extracting a City''s Graphic Culture (published by the SWEAT Workshop, 2007). Amy is co-designer and production manager of the book The Business of Holidays (Monacelli Press, 2004, edited by Maud Lavin). Amy is the founding president of the AIGA Toledo Chapter, and is co-organizing response_ability, an AIGA conference for design educators to be held in spring 2010.
Amy Fidler
Lecturer
MFA School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Visual Communication, 2004
BFA Bowling Green State University, Graphic Design, 2001
Faculty member since 2004.
Jenn Stucker
Assistant Professor, Graphic Design
MFA, Eastern Michigan University, Graphic Design
BFA, Bowling Green State University, Graphic Design
Along with teaching graphic design courses at BGSU, Jenn is also a practicing designer with her business, SiSU Design. Current and past clients include: Rubbermaid, Eskimo Pie (Coolbrands, Inc.), Beauty Bar Salon, The Boys and Girls Clubs of Toledo, David's House for AIDS, and the Pacific Cancer Foundation. Her work has been published in several books on graphic design and has also received award recognitions; most recently in the 2013 International Design Awards by HOW Magazine where her work was recognized as outstanding. She is a co-founder & organizer of SWEAT (Summer Workshop for Experimentation and Thought) and co-editor of the book Toledo Remanufactured: Extracting a City's Graphic Culture (published by the SWEAT Workshop, 2007) and ElevenDozen (published by the SWEAT Workshop, 2010). Jenn is a founding board member and Community Outreach Chair of the AIGA Toledo Chapter, and was a co-chair of response_ability, an AIGA Design Educators Conference held in Toledo, Ohio in May 2010. Jenn's research interest include methods of making, sustainability, community projects and investigations into the realm of the personal using the medium of design.
Faculty member since 1998.
Lori Young
Associate Professor, Division Chair of Graphic Design, Typography
Lori is an Associate Professor of Graphic Design in the School of Art at Bowling State University. She has had the good fortune of teaching at other institutions including Wayne State University and the College of Creative Studies, formally the Center For Creative Studies before arriving at BGSU. Her undergraduate and graduate degrees are from the University of Michigan and Eastern Michigan respectively.
Lori owns and operates a graphic design studio and produces design that utilizes letterpress and laser cutting technologies. The focus of her design work is the development of ornamental typography and her writing and research looks at cultural meanings as presented through the use of typography, ornament, and/or symbols in various visual domains.
Lori's creative and written work has been published in the journals, Graphis and Visual Communication. Her latest work, Regen(d)erating Decoration: Cultural Narrative in Ornamented Fonts Magneto Motivity, was recently published in the book, Visual Rhetoric and the Eloquence of Design, edited by Leslie Atzmon.
Faculty member since 2001.