Board Candidates
2008 CAA Board of Directors Election
Edward M. Noriega, Troy University
Statement: I am honored to be currently serving as a one-year appointee to the CAA Board of Directors, a year in which to learn as much as I can to better prepare myself for a successful full term. I am determined to work with CAA in any capacity to best serve its membership and to abide by its mission, vision, fiscal management, fiduciary responsibilities, policies, and procedures. Living in Alabama since 2000 has allowed me opportunities to serve on community and regional economic-development boards. It would be an honor to serve the CAA membership in the same capacity.
As a graphic designer for more than twenty years, I firmly believe in addressing the needs of clients. As a professor of art and design, I am passionate about teaching, learning, and mentoring. Academia offers many challenges and opportunities that can only intensify the core strengths of CAA and our professions as a whole. This will inevitably increase diversity in our membership, allowing for greater cross-cultural discourse, communication, and exposure.
If elected to a full term, I can assure you of my commitment to work hard, listen carefully, and ask questions, and to keep focused on finding expedient, practical, and economical resolutions in a collegial fashion.
Biography: A Cooper Union graduate, Edward M. Noriega participated in the graphic-design program at Kunstgewerbeschule Basel and the Yale Summer Program in Graphic Design in Brissago, both in Switzerland. He taught art and design courses and developed curricula for nearly twenty years at Cooper Union, the Fashion Institute of Technology, and Parsons School of Design. In 1999 he was awarded the Distinguished University Teaching Award from New School University, and in 2005 he received the Wallace D. Malone Jr. Distinguished Faculty Award from Troy University, where he teaches today.
In 2000, Noriega was hired to establish a program in graphic design at Troy. As the director of the Center for Design Technology and Industry, called <<dti>>, he has helped to put Troy University on the map in the graphic-design world. Under his leadership, the Department of Art and Design and <<dti>> students have received numerous design awards and accolades for their work.
Noriega is the principal of a graphic-design studio specializing in book design, information graphics, and presentations. He is the coauthor of Design Fundamentals for the Digital Age (New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1998) and is currently working on a publication about color and technology. He has also lectured nationally and internationally on design, color, and technology.