About | Keetra Dean Dixon

grams & tweets: @keetradeandixon
wholesale inquiries: keetra@fromkeetra.com

Hi, I’m Keetra. I currently divide my time between participatory installs, working with words, designing objects, and teaching. I’ve had the titles Graphic Designer, Experiential Director, and Artist – but whatever the task, if I’m making, I’m happy. I often play with the fallibility of communication and social connection; ever inspired by discovery, forced bumbles, and new materials + tech.

Current goal: figuring out how to blend learning, making, and teaching into a unified studio practice. Let me know if you have any secrets!

I keep a studio space along side JK Keller. See fromktoj.com for excerpts of process and collaborative works.

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For Press
Bio: Keetra Dean Dixon is a Designer, Director, Artist and Teacher. Her hybrid design background and expertise in graphic design often leads her work towards speculative terrain, leveraging emergent technologies and the shortcomings of ubiquitous creative tools. She has been recognized on several fronts including a U.S. presidential award, a place in the permanent design collection at the SFMOMA, and the honorable ranking of ADC Young Gun (6). She has been featured in numerous publications and exhibits, including feature articles in Time, étapes, + Surface, commissioned works for the ’09 U.S. Presidential Inauguration and the ’12 Olympic games. Dixon has held solo exhibits at the Kessel Kramer Gallery: KKOutlet, shown at the Walker Art Center & the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. She has acted as Design Director for installations featured at ’08 Venice Architecture Biennale and ’10 01SJ Biennial. In 2013 Dixon participated in INCONGRUOUS, a residency for “brazen experimentation in design practices” with Museum of Arts and Design in NYC.

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Talks & Teaching

2016 FITC Toronto Convention, speaker
2016 Miami University, speaking & workshop
2016 Rhode Island School of Art & Design, speaking & grad workshop
2016 Rochester Institute of Technology, speaking & workshop
2016 Rocky Mountain College of Design, speaker
2015 AIGA Design Conference 2015, main stage speaker
2015 Type Directors Club NYC, speaker
2015 California College of the Arts, speaker & workshop
2015 Michigan State University, speaker
2015 Dallas Society of Visual Communications, speaker
2014 California College of the Arts, speaker & workshop
2014 University of Tennessee Chattanooga, speaker & Diane Marek Visiting Artists
2014 Maryland Institute College of Art, speaker & graduate workshop
2013 TYPO San Francisco 2013 Contrast, speaker
2013 Virginia Common Wealth University, visiting artist
2013 Anchorage Museum of Art, AIGA, AK, speaker
’12-13 Maryland Institute College of Art GD MFA, thesis advisor & critic
2011 Rhode Island School of Design, graduate thesis advisor
2011     AIGA: Fresh Dialogue: Design Dualities:
                Timothy Goodman, Mike Perry, Keetra Dean Dixon, and Andrio Abero at
                The New School, speaker & panel interview
2011 Grafill DIG, Norway, speaker
2011 Offf, Barcelona, Spain, speaker
2011 Maryland Institute College of Art, visiting artist lecture & MFA workshop
2011 The Cultural Centre of Amsterdam, Pakhuis de Zwijger, speaker
’10-12 Associate Professor at MICA, MD, curriculum development and teaching BFA & MFA GD
2010 Rhode Island School of Design, visiting artist & workshop
2010 NYC Public Library, NYC, speaker & panel interview
2009 KK Outlet Gallery, London, artist lecture
2009 Pentagram, NYC, artist talk
2009 UNTITLED, Otis, Variations in Design Practice, co-keynote speaker
2009 Apple Store via The Art Directors Club, NYC, SoHo, speaker
2009 Cooper Union, NYC, visiting artist lecture & crit
2009 School for the Visual Arts, NY, guest critique & workshop
2008 California Institute of the Arts, CA, visiting artist
2008 The Art Directors Club: The Backstory Series, NYC, speaker & panel interview
2008 Pratt, NY, Brooklyn, guest critique & workshop
2000 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, CA, Young Artists Program curriculum & teaching

Select Awards & Juries

2015 Judge for AIGA AK, The Big One Design Awards, Anchorage, AK
2012 ADC Young Guns 10 Judge
2011 Core77 Design Awards, Interiors / Exhibits + Interactive / Web
2011 IdN Most Wanted Creative
2009 STEP Inside Design, Top 25
2009 Emerging Talent 2009 QBN, Editors Choice
2009 Krop Creative, Sponsorship 2009
2009 D&AD Pencil, Environmental Design
2008 The Art Directors Club, Young Gun 6
2008 Invitation to Print Magazines, 20 under 30 (on my 30th Bday!)
2005 Presidential Teaching Award
2000 Work in the permanent collection at SFMOMA

Select Shows & Residencies

2015 Typojanchi 2015, The 4th International Typography Biennale
2014 NYC Makers, The MAD Biennial, Museum of Arts and Design, NY
2014 University of Tennessee Chattanooga, Diane Marek Visiting Artists
2013 Museum of Arts and Design, NYC, INCONGRUOUS artist in residency
2013 Museum of Arts and Design, NYC, the Home Front Exhibit, After the Museum
2012 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, NY
2012 Walker Art Center, MN, Graphic Design: Now in Production
2012 Design Event, UK, Modern Art of Conversation Exhibit
2010 The Future Gallery, Central London, The Big Treat
2010 WORDPLAY; The Lettering of ON LANGUAGE, New York Times Magazine
2009 Park Life Exhibit, Studio Number One Gallery, LA, CA
2009 KK Outlet Gallery Solo Show, London

Select Press
Magazines: Time / Surface / How / Print / IdN / Vogue Italia / Eye / estape / Make / Good Magazine / Communication Arts / Seventeen / Elle / 8 Faces

Books: Designing for Participatory Culture for Princeton Architectural Press / Graphic Design Thinking: Beyond Brainstorming, Princeton Architectural Press / IdN Extra 04: Most Wanted Volume 1 / Playful Type, Die Gestalten / Los Logos 5, Die Gestalten / It’s Nice That #3 / Hand Made 3D, INDEX BOOK / 3-Dimensional Typography, Rational Beauty / Urban Interventions, Die Gestalten / Font Family, INDEX BOOK / Hand Made 3D, INDEX BOOK / Art of the Invitation, viction:ary / Over and Over, Princeton Architectural Press / New Ornamental Type, Steven Heller + Gail Anderson, Thames & Hudson / Out Of Format, Indexbook Barcelona / Hand Made, Indexbook Barcelona / Lemon Poppy Seed, Die Gestalten / Tactile: high touch visuals, Die Gestalten / Type Addicted: The new trend of A to Z typo-graphics, viction:ary

Sites: notcot.org / todayandtomorrow.net / designobserver.com / designboom.com / formfiftyfive.com / itsnicethat.com / booooooom.com / qbn.com / psfk.com / swiss-miss.com / core77.com / thestrangeattractor.net / friendsoftype.com / dailycandy.com / beautifuldecay.com / dazeddigital.com / geekologie.com / boingboing.com / digg.com