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Philip Loubere
Philip A. Loubere is an associate professor of Visual Communication at Middle Tennessee State University, USA. He has an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to joining the faculty at MTSU he worked for eighteen years in a professional capacity in information graphics and publication design, twelve of those years for three major metro newspapers, The Seattle Times, the San Jose Mercury News, and The Orange County Register. https://www.ploubere.com
Subjects: Art & Visual Culture, Communication Studies, History, Mass Communications, Web
Biography
Philip Loubere is an associate professor of Visual Communication at Middle Tennessee State University, US. He teaches applications and advanced classes in the visual communication sequence, including Information Web Design. Prior to joining the School, he worked as a news artist at three West Coast newspapers-The Seattle Times, the San Jose Mercury News and The Orange County Register-over a period of 12 years from 1996 to 2008. Before that, he taught art and design classes at Pierce College and at the University of Puget Sound, both in Tacoma, Washington.He has received or shared in eight awards from AEJMC, the Society for News Design, Best of the West, Greater Bay Area Journalism and News Artist Organization and, prior to his newspaper career, had his artwork in six solo shows, twenty-one juried group shows and ten invitational shows, earning six awards, including Best of Show, Patron and Purchase.
Education
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M.F.A. degree from the University of Wisconsin Madison
M.A. degree from Eastern Illinois University
B.F.A. degree from SUNy College at Buffalo, NY
Areas of Research / Professional Expertise
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Visual Communication, information graphics, illustration, web design, front-end coding, history of communication technology
Personal Interests
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Visual arts, guitar, hiking, travel
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