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Understanding the role of a graphic designer within a pluralistic society and a cross-cultural context is an essential component of a design education. We recognize the power of design thinking. We encourage identifying challenges, framing opportunities, managing complex situations, generating approaches, creating deeper understanding, and shaping meaningful experiences. With graphic design research we evolve into thought-leaders that will affect design in a variety of communication formats.
Don E. Adleta

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PERPETUAL CALENDAR

The Adleta Perpetual Calendar reveals time. It reduces a year to a single sheet of paper. It uses a decoder to unlock eternal time. This precisely placed typography allows the analog to overcome technology.

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Perpetual calendar
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CORPORATE DESIGNS

Corporate Identities are more than a mnemonic that becomes a super sign of a corporate voice. The path to a successful mark finds its roots in uninhibited mark-making research.

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corporate
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RESEARCH

Research is a rigorous visual and theoretical search for coincidences that expose the core of the quest. It combines rational and intuitive thinking. Logic is always active but should not be blind to the happy accident.

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Research
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TYPESHOP & BINDERY

The Don E. Adleta TypeShop and Bindery at Ohio University is a place and a plan. Initially, it served a curricular need but is evolving into a vehicle to bring together knowledge, community, and commerce.

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Typeshop & binDery
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PAST EXHIBITIONS

Exhibitions are both an ending and a beginning. Each exhibit features a body of work that is finished, however it asks a question of what is to come.

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past Exhibitions
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STORE

This store identifies books, posters, and drawings by Don, his students, his colleagues, and his mentors for you to consider. Some of the funds generated from the sale of these items go to trust funds, some go to student organizations, and some go to his personal use.

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STore

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UPCOMING EVENTS
Are you graphic design professionals with a passion project that you haven’t yet found the time and place to make happen? We are searching for mid-career graphic design professional who will enrich both our academic and the surrounding community’s activities. This residency is based in Athens, Ohio, at the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, one and a half hours away from Columbus and its John Glenn International Airport. CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE