Assistant Professor, M.F.A.

Design

Department of Art & Art History

dawash@mail.utexas.edu

- Office: ART 1.214

- Phone: +1 512-471-0902

- Mail Code: - D1300

Assistant Professor Shields holds a B.F.A. from Memphis State University and a M.F.A. from Cranbrook Academy of Art. After working several years in Chicago and in Holland, he moved to New York where his work for Acela, Amtrak’s High-Speed Rail focused on the visual quality of the brand as well as the strategy for implementing environmental, interactive and experiential design. In 2001 Shields helped found the design studio, Viewers Like You.

His work can be in publications including 365: AIGA Year in Design (2009), Rethinking Design 4, AIGA Fifty Books of the Year, Influences: A Lexicon of Contemporary Graphic Design Practice, and Graphic Design and Postmodernism as well periodicals including Eye, Emigre, and IDEA. His work is also in the permanent collections of the Cooper Hewitt Museum and Museum of Modern Art. Shields has contributed articles to Printing History, the journal of the American Printing History Association and Ultrabold, the Journal of the St Bride Library. Before coming to Texas, David taught at Rutgers University and held positions at University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pratt Institute and NYC Technical College in Brooklyn.

He has been engaged in the physical research of the Rob Roy Kelly American Wood Type Collection, organizing and clarifying the historical importance of the wood types while expanding the information available on the often-elusive histories of these designs.