Julie Sayo (she/her) is graphic designer, educator and researcher. She works on typography-driven projects that explore history, heritage, and archives.  
 




Projects: ❶ Baybayin  ❷ Zines ❸ Type Design ❹ Everything else



Research 



Julie’s studio practice uses graphic design as a tool for sharing the Filipina-American experience. Using history and heritage as reference points, her work seeks to create plural narratives around Filipino-American representation through type design and zines. 

Select Speaking & Panels

2024 SECAC, Atlanta, Georgia 
New Research in Graphic Design “Decentering Alpha” October 25, 2024.

2024 Typographics, TypeLab Asia (online)   
“Baybayin in the Filipino Diaspora: Landscape, Connection and Process” June 10, 2024.  

2024 AIGA Margins Conference, Design Educators Committee (DEC) (online) “Incorporating Accessible Design Practices for Seen and Unseen Disabilities into Design Pedagogy” Co-presenteres: Ana Farnham & Jenny Kowalski. October 12, 2024.  




Teaching



I have 10 years of teaching experience in higher education. I have taught a range of graphic design courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. In addition to teaching, I am an experienced workshop facilitator, collaborating across disciplines to apply design thinking methodologies to socially-engaged pedagogy.

Baltimore Museum of Industry field trip to see a Linotype demo. ART335, Fall 2024. 


Classes at UMBC:
  • ART335: Origins & Issues in Design
  • ART336: Digital Design II 
  • ART431: Graphic Design III
  • ART434: Digital Design III

Previously Taught:
  • Graphics I
  • Graphics II
  • Web Design I 
  • Web Design II
  • Content Creation Seminar (graduate) 
  • User Experience (graduate) 




Select Workshop Facilitation

  • “Carpe DM! Exploring Intimacy in the Digital Age Through Art”
    Tech & Society Week, Georgetown University, April 5, 2022. 
    Co-facilitators: Sydney Luken & Alicia Patterson. 

  • “Mapping Stakeholders for Public Policy” Ethics, Values and Public Policy course. Ethics Lab, Georgetown University. Co-facilitators: Sydney Luken & Jason Farr. April 13, 2022. 

  • “Affordances in Social Media” Social Media and Democracy course. Ethics Lab, Georgetown University. Co-facilitator: Jason Farr. November 10, 2021. 





About 


Julie Sayo (she/her) is a designer and educator based in Baltimore, Maryland. She is currently an Assistant Professor in Graphic Design at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) where she teaches digital design couress in the Graphic Design conentration.

Prior to UMBC, she was an Assistant Research Professor in design and creative pedagogy at Georgetown University’s Ethics Lab where she worked on ethics-centered curricula through creative teaching engagements. She previously served as a Lecturer at Loyola University Maryland, teaching undergraduate digital media courses in the Communication department and UX courses in the Emerging Media graduate program. 

As a graphic designer, Julie has worked for clients ranging from worker-owned cooperatives to community non-profit organizations and on projects of varying scales from apparel graphics, environmental graphic design, publication design, UX & UI design. 

She earned a MFA in Graphic Design and MA in Social Design from Maryland Institute College of Art and a BA in Political Science from Loyola University Maryland. 

Select clients: 
  • Jesuit Refugee Services USA
  • Dulce Hogar Cleaning Cooperative
  • Notre Dame Mission Volunteers-Americorps
  • National Parks Services & Living Classrooms





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