University of Delaware Faculty

M.F.A. (Graphic Design) Rhode Island School of Design, 2006

B.S. (Visual Communications) University of Delaware, 1996

Ashley John Pigford is an interaction designer working at the intersection of design process and art practice. His cross-disciplinary creative work involves physical computing and postdigital processes in the interrogation of language through digitally-mediated experiences. His work manifests as electronic sculpture, interactive installation, performance, video and print. He received his MFA in Graphic Design from the Rhode Island School of Design after a successful career as a proprietor of graphic design in Los Angeles, CA. He is an Assistant Professor of Visual Communications in the Department of Art at the University of Delaware.

Selected Exhibitions:

2012

Vista Sans Wood Type Project Group Exhibition, Curated
Type Directors Club of New York, NY

Vista Sans Wood Type Project Group Exhibition, Curated Belfast Print Studios, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Object Play 4-person Exhibition, CuratedPress Street's Antenna Gallery, New Orleans, LA

Translationships Solo Exhibition, JuriedLiving Arts of Tulsa, OK

2011

Wood Type, Evolved: Experimental Letterpress Group Exhibition, Curated Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts, Chicago, IL

2010

Process Festival: Sound from Systems, Film/Video Festival, Curated Ausland, Berlin, Germany