Cynthia Cully is a Design professor at Sinclair Community College.<\/p>\n
She started as a Communication major at the University of Dayton, but later realized that graphic design was a better fit for her.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo me, art is more personal. The fine art is more personal,\u201d she said. \u201cCommercial design…[or] graphic design or visual communications, that is for someone else. Some people will say [you\u2019re selling out], but I don\u2019t see it that way. She said that\u2019s how you\u2019re able to make money and because you\u2019re working for someone else, it\u2019s a bigger problem to solve because that\u2019s all we\u2019re doing. Where on the fine art side, I can do what I want. It\u2019s personal to me, I don\u2019t care if you like it or not. But as a graphic designer and you\u2019re the audience, I need you to like that. To me, I like that challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n
After she graduated with a bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Dayton, she continued her education at the University of Cincinnati, where she earned her master\u2019s of design degree.<\/p>\n
She then started working for Mead in the school and office products division.<\/p>\n
Later, she started working at Sinclair. She started teaching what was called pre-press classes at the time, which were introductory courses to computer programs.<\/p>\n
She later started teaching typography courses and basic design courses, as well as more advanced second-year courses. She now teaches all types of Visual Communications courses, with an exception to those based on web design and development.<\/p>\n
\u201cI teach across the board. The only stuff I don\u2019t teach is the web stuff and the interactive design\u2026 because that\u2019s not my background, because I come from a print background,\u201d Cully said. \u201cWhen I started to work, we were still doing everything by hand, so there was no web. For me, I enjoy the print.\u201d<\/p>\n
She describes teaching as an exchange of information, because not only are her students learning from her, but she\u2019s also learning from her students.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s something that every person that you come in contact with, they have something that they can share with you or that you\u2019re going to learn from them. So if you approach it like that, you can get a lot out of this. So it\u2019s not just about, \u2018I\u2019m learning about typography today.\u2019 No, it\u2019s more than that,\u201d Cully said.<\/p>\n
She advises current Visual Communications students to start looking for a job early on, to research the company they\u2019re applying for and to stay passionate.<\/p>\n
\u201cBe passionate about your design\u2026 I think that\u2019s not just for graphic designers, but that\u2019s for anybody,\u201d she said. \u201cBecause if you\u2019re passionate about what you\u2019re doing, number one, it doesn\u2019t seem like a job. Number two, you\u2019re still interested in it and you\u2019re constantly growing in it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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