Elizabeth A Berger, Assoc. Professor
 

Elizabeth Berger teaches graphic design, typography, visual communication and technology courses. She has taught around the world at Zayed University in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Whanganui School of Design New Zealand as well as the University of North Texas, Southern Methodist University, and Southern New Hampshire University. She is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Texas at Dallas, and received her MFA from the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas and studied in the summer program at the University of Art and Design Basel, HGK Basel, Switzerland.

 

She is a practicing designer and design educator with over a 20-year career in advertising and design in the Dallas market. Her work has earned awards in various shows and annuals such as the New York Art Directors Annual, Print magazine, Graphis magazine, and the Dallas Society of Visual Communications. “The world of design is expanding to become a discipline that incorporates more than aesthetics –it is embracing research, technology, multiculturalism, and manifesting its power beyond business.”

 

Some of her avocations range from hands-on crafts such as bookarts and Medieval bookbinding to working with metals in jewelry design.  Berger feels the future for designers is in their critical thinking skills and how that is applied to making connections in complex systems and multiple platforms within our global society.