Alexander Cheek
About Me
Hello! I'm Alex, Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor of Design at Carnegie Mellon University. I am a transdisciplinary designer and researcher who studies the broad reach of design and how it can affect communication, human interaction, organizational change, and society at large. My current work revolves around tools and data visualization for decision making within complex corporate environments. Ongoing authorship is in design theory.
Additional interests include sustainability and environmental issues, policy, politics, news and media, urbanism, photography, travel, the outdoors, and cycling.
I wanted to become all sorts of things growing up—engineer, teacher, hotelier, climatologist, journalist, and New Yorker cover artist to name a few — and as a designer I get to study and work in many of the interesting fields I once thought to specialize in.
Undergraduate study in information and graphic design at the RIT School of Design; Master's of Design from Carnegie Mellon University School of Design and Department of English. CV and portfolio with teaching, research, service, and professional practice available upon request.
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
SMC 1070 Qatar Office
Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 15289-1070
arwcheek -at- gmail -dot- com
Courses
Design and the Human Experience
Design for People & Planet
Interaction Design & Technology
Designing for Service
Industrial Design Fundamentals
Information Design
Communication Design Fundamentals
miscellany
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Classroom Salon / Poster
Genealogical History
Newsstand 2.0 Concept
Neighborhoods of Manhattan / Buy a Print / Download EPS / CC BY 3.0
Population = Dunkin' Donuts
Family, East Hampton, Long Island, 1937.