Teaching Design Studio with Stephanie Nace
Have you had an on-going project or a client that you have worked with and grown with for over 15 years?
This is probably my favorite part of looking back at my growth as a designer and entrepreneur. As I learn I pass that on to my clients. I try new things and end up adjusting what I am teaching in the classroom.
This week we’re talking to my new friend, Stephanie Nace a professor at the University of South Carolina who has been running her business, teaching classes, and had a project that is always different that she teaches each year.
How are you iterative? Is there a project or client that you can look back at year after year and see growth in? Tell me I’d love to know what it is and what you’ve noticed in your journey.
Episode 466 LIVE on Wednesday, April 17 @ 11:30am PT / 2:30pm ET / 7:30pm GMT / 9:30am in Hawaii.
Questions for Stephanie
- Stephanie, can you give everybody a little background about your journey in design and your career?
- You told me you love teaching the Design Studio class. Why do you love it?
- As professors our schools require us to do “research” and for us research is client work. What types of projects do you love to take on?
- How does running a design business yourself inspire or influence how you teach the Design Studio class? Does it influence the types of projects you give to your students?
- What kinds of projects do you have in this class or the other classes you teach that help students get a taste of real world projects?
- Why is teaching timeline and managing deadlines important but also hard?
- What kinds of things to you do to instill strong craft and inventive problem solving skills?
- Your love for craft and being a craft-oriented person has helped you in teaching design but also in your business in what ways?
- You and your class at University of South Carolina have been doing a poster for the common read for a long time. How did that get started and can you tell us about the tour the posters are on?
- What’s next for you?
You can always join us for the live taping experience and be part of the community. Come a little early and introduce yourself in the chat, tell us where you are located in the world and say hey!
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Connect with Stephanie
https://www.designofthefirst-yearreadingexperience.com/
https://www.sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/artsandsciences/about/news/2024/svad_student_design_studio.php
https://www.webelievewomen.org/
https://froglegstudio.com
Instagram.com/snace75
Instagram.com/frogleg_studio
Instagram.com/uofsc_design
Instagram.com/uofsc_thedesignstudio
Instagram.com/uofsc_designofthefyre
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