Graphic designer, educator, researcher, and writer.
Curriculum Vitae
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Education
M.F.A. 2008 MICA, Maryland Institute College of Art, Graphic Design
B.F.A. 2006 MICA, Maryland Institute College of Art, Graphic Design and a studio minor in Interactive Media
Teaching
2023 – Present MICA, Maryland Institute College of Art, Adjunct Faculty, Graphic Design, FYE, YPS
2022 –Present Towson University, Adjunct Faculty, Graphic Design
2018 – 2020 UMBC, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Tenure, Associate Professor, Graphic Design
Jan – May 2014 MICA, Maryland Institute College of Art, Adjunct Faculty, Graphic Design
2010 – 2017 UMBC, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Tenure–Track, Assistant Professor, Graphic Design
2011 UMBC, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Adjunct Faculty, Information Systems & Human Centered Design
2009–2010 York College of Pennsylvania, Assistant Professor, Tenure–Track, Graphic Design
Jan – May 2009 York College of Pennsylvania, Adjunct Faculty, Graphic Design
Fall 2008 – Spring 2010 UMBC, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Adjunct Faculty, Graphic Design
2008 – 2009 Towson University, Adjunct Faculty, Graphic Design
2008 Anne Arundel Community College, Adjunct Faculty, Graphic Design
2008 MICA, Graduate Design Fellowship
2003 – 2005 MICA, Maryland Institute College of Art, Teaching Assistant, Interactive Media
Spring 2007 MICA, Maryland Institute College of Art, Teaching Assistant, Illustration
2003 CAP Community Arts and Partnership, taught Art after school, first grade students
Summer 2003 Fairlington Community Center, Summer Art Camp, Leader, Arlington, VA
Design
CCordova design, Graphic Designer, Baltimore, Maryland, June 2024 – Present
ccdesign, writing and graphic designr, Baltimore, Maryland, 2022 – May 2024
Vcordova Design, Principal, Baltimore, Maryland, 2007 – 2018
Savant Marketing, Art Director, Baltimore, Maryland, 2007 – 2009
Telemundo, National Broadcasting Company, NBC, 2006 – 2007. Affiliate Producer, Arlington, Virginia, Marketing
and Sales production, post-production, design for promotion of the channel, and client commercials
The Source Magazine, Hip-Hop Culture and Politics, May – Nov 2005. Photographer and Graphic Designer, New York,
NY, I designed magazine spreads and arranged photo shoots
Black Entertainment Television, BET, Broadcast designer, May – Aug 2005
internship, Washington, D.C., Interactive Graphic Design for special network shows.
Terrapin Systems, Web and Print designer, Bethesda, Maryland developing identities, websites, and print work May – Aug 2004.
MICA, Community Arts Partnership Program, CAP, Mentor Volunteer, Baltimore, Maryland taught after school art class to first
grade students of public schools Sept – Dec 2002.
Awards
2024-2025 Towson University, ChatGPT Team Account Project (MOU)
2024 $1200 MICA RCCE Spring Faculty Teaching Grant Award, New Media 4D
2017–2021 $244,000 DCS Corp Grant, contractor for the Army Research Lab, Co-PI Nilanjan Banerjee, Ryan Robucci, & Carla Viviana Coleman
2016–2018 $24,000 UMBC Hrabowski Innovation Fellow 2011–2013, Teacher Scholar
2016 $6,000, CIRCA Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts Fellowship
2016–2018 24,000 UMBC Hrabowski Innovation Fellow. P. I.
2015 5,000 UMBC Faculty Diversity Initiatives ADVANCE Program
2013 6,000 UMBC Cybersecurity Summer Fellowship
2013 3,000 Dean Travel Fund
2011 6,000 UMBC Faculty Summer Fellowship
Publishing
Books
Rapidly Prototyping with InDesign, Boca Raton, Florida, CRC Press; 225 pages, 2018
Chapters in Books
Articles
Books Self–published
Manuscripts Reviews
Manuscript Reviewer, “Talking to Customers: Compelling Products from Simple Conversations by Gregg Bernstein”, CRC Press 2016
Manuscript Reader, “Digital Type Design for Branding, Designing Letters from their Source by Stephen Boss”, CRC Press 2015
Manuscript Reader, “Web Typography Now!” by Jason Cranford Teague, Focal Press 2013
Presentations
“Shaping Visual Structures Art of Composition, Movement, and Space in Graphic Design” at Towson University, Towson, MD
May 1st, 2025
“How to Brainstorm Pedological Ideas for Interdisciplinary Collaboration in the Classroom” at (Re)Imagining Humanities Teaching: Innovations in course design, 2017, Missouri, Kansas city
June 8th–10th 2017
“Color and Design–ergonomic Methodologies for Cybersecurity” at Bit’s 1st Annual World Congress of Designers–2014, China, Dalian
June 27th–29th, 2014
“Interactive Fundamentals for Graphic Design” at ICED 2013 Conference, Korea, Seoul August 19th–22nd, 2013
“Web Typography, CSS and XHTML,” at Typecon 2011 Conference, New Orleans, LA
July 5th–12th, 2011
“Typography Using Processing and Illustrator,” at Typecon 2011 Conference, New Orleans, LA, July 5th–12th, 2011
“Algorithmic Design,” at “Massaging Media 2: Graphic Design Education in the Age of Dynamic Media” Conference, AIGA Design Educators, Boston, MA, Ahn and Cordova April 4th–6th, 2008
“Branding.” at Unicen 2012: Emprendedurismo “Como Diseñar un Exitoso Plan de Negocios”, National Commercial Engineering Conference Universidad Central, Cochabamba, Bolivia May 18th–19th, 2012
Presentation non–juried
“Branding” at Unicen 2012 Universidad Central, Bolivia, La Paz
March 22nd, 2012
Lectures non–juried
—Colloquia
“Designing and Developing Effective Mobile Applications” (Hrabowski Fund for Innovation) Provost’s
Teaching and Learning, Symposium, UMBC
September 30th, 2016.
—Artist’s talk and workshop
“Research and Design Personal Portfolio,” at Open Book, 2012 Eastern Michigan University, Parsons Center. Lake Ann, MI, July 26th–Aug 5th, 2012
—Seminar
Ushyee Latino/Black Student Leadership Summit “Our Legends,” UMBC
July 13th, 2012
—Workshop
“Graphic Design using Processing,” at the Universidad Católica Boliviana, La Paz, Bolivia
March 21st–22nd, 2012
—Lecture
“Spectrum: 2013 UMBC Visual Arts Faculty Exhibition,” Viviana Cordova
September 23rd, 2013
Exhibitions Juried
Type And Code Processing For Designers, Yeohyun Ahn and Viviana Cordova curated by Jimmy Luu and Ryan Molloy, exhibited in Dimension and Typography a survey of letterforms in Space and Time University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, I Space Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Jan 9th–Feb 7th, 2009
Autobiographical Typography curated by Christopher P. Mona in faculty exhibition at the Cade Fine Arts Center Gallery, Anne Arundel Community College, Arnold, Maryland;
October 8th-November 12th, 2008
Exhibitions Non–Juried
2023 Faculty Exhibition curated by Andrea Dixon at the Decker Gallery & Meyerhoff Gallery, Fox Building, MICA, Baltimore, Maryland
Spectrum: 2013 UMBC Visual Arts Faculty Exhibition curated by Symmes Gardner At The Center For Art, Design And Visual Culture, CADVC, Baltimore, Maryland
Sept 5th–Oct 5th, 2013
Graphic Design Work
Designing And Developing Effective Mobile Applications Demo Presentation Poster, Baltimore. Promote Your Portfolio Lecture, Poster
May 2016
Tikay Identity, website www.tikay.info, unavailable online, Virginia
December 2014
Come And Play, Identity, Bolivia
July, 2013
Out Of My Hands: Baltimore Alphabet, Participatory Project, 24 designers Maryland Institute College of Art; Baltimore, Maryland
July, 2013
David Wood Lecture At UMBC poster Baltimore October, 2012
Web Typography: A Handbook For Graphic Designers book design for hard and soft cover and content September, 2012
Screen Interfaces As Books Artist Book, Michigan. Open Book, Library Database As A Book Artist Book Michigan, July 2014
Web Typography Identity and Tutorial Website, www.webtypography.org, 2012
EDSG, Educational Development Solutions Group, website www.edsgllc.biz. EDSG, Washington DC, December 2011
Rina Hair Salon Identity, website www.rinasalon.com, currently unavailable, Manassas, Virginia, July 2011
UVAS, Identity, Virginia, June 2011
DNA to Protein, website www.dnatoprotein.com, currently unavailable, Baltimore
June 2011
Service and Membership
MICA Day of Service: Thursday, March 14th, 2024
LMCC Committee, MICA, 2023–present
UK Education and Research Community, 2020–present
Member, Design Studies Forum, ACM, 2018–present
Search Committee Member, Animation UMBC 2017–2018
Member of The Advisory Council at Patterson High School, 2012–2020
Member of USHYEE Latino/Black Association profession, 2012–2020
Portfolio Reviewer, Graphic Design Student Conference, Baltimore, The Professional
Association for Design, AIGA, 2016
Portfolio Reviewer, Graphic Design Student Conference, Baltimore, AIGA, 2015
Portfolio Reviewer, Graphic Design Student Conference, Baltimore, The Professional
Association for Design, AIGA, 2015
Portfolio Reviewer, Graphic Design Student Conference, Baltimore, AIGA, 2014
Portfolio Reviewer, Graphic Design Student Conference, Baltimore, AIGA, 2013
Volunteer, National Education Committee, AIGA Board, Student, 2004
AIGA Board, Student, President, 2003–2005
2010–2011
Member, Interaction Design Association, IXDA, 2010–present
Member, The Society of Typographic Aficionados, SOTA, 2012–2020
Education Chair, Baltimore AIGA Board, 2008–2010
Coordinator, Create! Don’t Hate program Baltimore, AIGA Board, 2009–2010
Educational Events Chair, Baltimore AIGA Board, 2010
Chair, Student Portfolio Review, Baltimore AIGA Board, 2010
Chair, Student Portfolio Review, Stevenson University. Speakers Ronald Cala and Carlos
Florez, Baltimore, AIGA Board, 2009
Co–Chair, Student Portfolio Review Committee, Towson University: Speaker Post
Typography, Baltimore, AIGA Board, 2009
Co–Chair, Education. University of Maryland Baltimore County: Speaker Marc English,
Baltimore AIGA Board, 2008
Member, College Art Association, CAA, 2007–2020
Pedagogy Presentations
Lilly Conference: Designing Effective Teaching, Hyatt Regency, Bethesda, Maryland,
USA, June 1st–4th, 2017
Practice, Knowledge, Vision, Doctoral Education in Design Conference, Hong Kong
Polytechnic University of Technology, Hong Kong, China, 22nd–May25th, 2011
Diversity and Unity, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands, October 31st–
November 4th, 2011
Conference Attendee
VDEF23–5th Virtual Design Education Forum, Hosted by The New Art School, Virtual. May 11th–12th, 2023.
New Contexts / New Practices, North Carolina State University, North Carolina, USA
December 8th–10th, 2010
Gain: AIGA Design and Business Conference, New York City, USA
October 14th–16th, 2010
WWW2010, Raleigh Convention Center, North Carolina, USA
April 26th–30th, 2010
AIGA, Social Studies Educating Designers in a Connected World, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, USA October 17th–19th, 2008
AIGA, Massaging Media 2: Graphic Design Education in the Age of Dynamic Media, Seaport Hotel & World Trade Center, Boston, MA, April 4th–6th, 2008
Service to the Community of Baltimore through AIGA
Create! Don’t Hate: Tolerance In Baltimore Billboards, Project Coordinator Viviana
Cordova, Baltimore, Maryland. Seven out of Thirty Billboards bulletin size, 48’ by 14’,
were placed throughout the City of Baltimore designed by high school students and
professional graphic designers. this project was supported by clear channel.
Summer and Fall 2010
Create! Don’t Hate: Tolerance In Baltimore Exhibition is collaboration curated by Viviana
Cordova and Bernadine Zienkiewic, Patapsco High School and Center for the Arts
Baltimore, Maryland. Over 30 Billboards were displayed in this exhibition. This
collaboration was between 30 graphic designers and 55 high school students supported
by AIGA, Adobe, and Design Ignites Change Part of Worldstudio
January 14th–February 10th, 2010
Graphic Design Work
Graphic Design The New Basics, www.gdbasics.com, currently unavailable
Spring 2008
Robert Bringhurst, Lecture At UMBC Poster Baltimore
November 2008
webtypography.org tutorial website, Space Time Interactive ACM Siggraph, Curated by Scott Paul Dunham; Los Angeles, California, Summer 2008
Web Typography Poster Inline Box Word, Space Time Print ACM Siggraph, curated by Scott Paul Dunham Los Angeles, California, Summer 2008
webtypography.org tutorial website, Space Time Interactive ACM Siggraph Curated by Scott Paul Dunham; Los Angeles, California, September 2008
A Way Of Going by Nicholas Fredrick Brady, Secretary of Treasury of USA, 1981–1989 And 1989–1993, Book Content Design, 270 Pages, Washington DC, Published by Fredrick Brady, July 2008
Poster, The Urban Forest Project: Where Are The Trees? curated by Rachael Baird streets of Baltimore City, Baltimore, Maryland, Fall 2007
Autobiographical Typography And Women Diagram, Posters First Year Thesis Show
Curated by Ellen Lupton, Pinkard Gallery at MICA, Baltimore Maryland, Fall 2007
Seven Vices Curated By George Ciscle installation, Courtyard Ssamzie, And Gallery 175, MICA Korea, with The Korean National University of Arts, KNUA, and Exhibition at MICA, Brown Center. Seoul, Korea and Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Piece Selected For Permanent Collection By Ssamzie Museum, Seoul, South Korea Summer 2007
Self–Promotion And Portfolio Curated by the Graphic Design Department Brown Center, MICA, Maryland Fall 2006
UMBC, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Service University
Committee Member, Undergraduate Research Awards, URA, 2013–2020
Fine Arts Building Renovation, Committee Member, 2012
Committee Member, LHFA Hispanic Latino Faculty Association, 2012–2020
Committee Member, Awards & Linehan Scholars, 2010–2015
Committee Member, New Media Studio Advisory Board community, 2010–2012
Department Visual Arts
Senior Thesis Show Coordinator, Spring 2017
Graphic Design Area Coordinator, 2016–2019
Curriculum Committee Member, 2016–2019
Committee Member, Executive Committee/Visual Arts, Spring 2015
Web Committee Member, 2014–2015
Chair, Executive Committee, Fall 2014
Awards Committee Member, 2013
Committee Member, Executive Committee, 2011–2012
Search Committee, Member, Animation, 2011–2012
Senior Show Coordinator, Graphic Design Area, Spring 2012
IMDA Graduate Student, UMBC
May 2014 Carrie Rennolds, M.F.A, Committee Member Leader
Seeing Science Advisor to UMBC, Undergraduate Students
Spring 2016
Hao Wang, “Illustrating the Unseen Poster”, Seeing Science Fellow,
Interdisciplinary Studies major, Spring 2016, Stephen Freeland,
Advisor, Viviana Cordova, Mentor
Fan Zhang, “Synthesis of CdSe and Au Nanoparticles Assemblies to
Study the Optical Properties of New Hybrid Nanomaterials Poster”,
Seeing Science Fellow, Sole Advisor
Matia Wills, “Skeletal Muscle Atrophy Integrating Insulin into the Foxo–
1 Model Poster”, Seeing Science Fellow, Spring 2016, BFA, Advisor
Oluwasola Awojoodu, “A Flexible Approach to treating the Ebola Virus
Poster”, Seeing Science Fellow, Spring 2016, BFA, Advisor
Spring 2014
Laura Guzman Aguilar, “Branding of a Campaign of Awareness of Hearing Impairment in Cochabamba, Bolivia”, Design Ignites Change Fellow, Spring 2014, BFA