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Dennis
Y. Ichiyama is Professor of Art and Design. He joined the faculty
in 1981 in the area of Visual Communications Design. In 1966 he
received a B.F.A. degree from the University of Hawaii at Manoa
and an M.F.A. in Graphic Design from Yale University in 1968.
He continued his post-graduate studies in graphic design at the
Allegemeine Gewerbeschule (School of Design) in Basel, Switzerland
in 1975-77. His poster designs are in the collections of the Lahti
Museum of Poster Art (Finland) and the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Zurich.
His professional work has been published in the U.S.A., Canada,
Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Poland. Professor
Ichiyama has been the recipient of NEH, NEA and two Indiana Arts
Council (IAC) Artists grants for research and design. In 1990
he was invited as the first visiting scholar to the University
of Iowa Center for the Book. In 1992 he received a fellowship
from the School of Liberal Arts Center for Artistic Endeavors,
which enabled him to continue his work and experiments in typographic
collage and artists' books.
In l999 he was Designer-in-Residence at the newly established Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum in Wisconsin where several typographic projects were created using the immense collection of historic American wood type. In 2002, he was elected to service as a national board member of the College Art Association, "the largest association for visual arts professionals that promotes the highest levels of creativity and scholarship in the practice, teaching, and interpretation of the visual arts" in the United States.
In
the spring of 2003 he received another Center for Creative
Endeavors Fellowship from the School of Liberal Arts to conduct
research on printing and poster design. His work is in the
collections of Columbia University, Rare Book Library, the
Kunstgewerbemuseum in Zurich, the Library of Congress (Print,
Poster & Photography division), the Carey Library of the
Rochester Institute of Technology, the Stern Book Arts and
Special Collections Center of the San Francisco Public Library,
the Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry and Yale
University Library's Arts of the Book Collection. He has been
honored by Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American
Education, Who's Who in Fine Arts Higher Education, Who's Who in
the Midwest and Who's Who in the World. His research into
printing and historic typography has led to presentations both
here and abroad and his work has received honors from the Type
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