marina emmanouil

I am planning to close this blog soon.

If you are interested in my work, please visit: marinaemmanouil.wordpress.com

Born in Athens, Greece (1977).

Marina is a full-time lecturer at the Visual Communication Design Department at Izmir University of Economics (IEU, Izmir, Turkey) since September 2010.

She teaches practice and theory in the area of visual communication (graphic design) at an undergraduate level. She is the coordinator of the 1st Symposium: 'Balkan Locus-Focus: long 20th century Visual Communication Design histories' held at IEU in June 2012 (in collaboration with Parsons The New School for Design, USA).

She graduated with a BA (Hons) in Graphic Design (2001) from the University of Hertfordshire (UK), and an MA in the History of Design (2004) from the Royal College of Art (UK). Her PhD research concerns the development of post-1945 graphic design in Greece. Her viva-voce examination was held in September 2011 and her graduation is expected in 2012.

Marina's primary academic and research interests lie in the field of the history of graphic design, advertising and visual communication, and in the field of information design, tactile graphics/information design, museum and accessibility.

With her design practice, Marina contributes to the development of accessibility programmes for visually impaired people in museums in the UK, the USA, and Greece. During her graphic design studies, she worked as a tactile production assistant at the National Centre for Tactile Diagrams, UK (2001). Since then she participated to the implementation of educational programmes at the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) in Boston MA (2005, 2006), where she was responsible for designing tactile diagrams of artworks from permanent collections and exhibitions. Her most recent work is the coordination and implementation of the educational programme for the visually impaired at the Benaki Museum in Athens, Greece, for the Pre-Columbian Art exhibition (2009)._