Speaker Pouya Jahanshahi

Pouya Jahanshahi is an Iranian born graphic designer, currently an Associate Professor of Graphic Design at Oklahoma State University, an endowed professor at the Global Studies, and the director of the MFA program. He earned his M.A. at Cal State Fullerton, with a focus on the realm of semiotics and motion. He received his MFA in Graphic design and Integrated Media, from California Institute of Arts (CalArts) he researched global development of what he termed Hybrid Visual Cultures; Focusing on the post revolutionary and hybrid characteristics of Iranian typography, he has been the voice Iranian graphic design in the west.