Mario F. Bocanegra Martinez
Graphic / motion Designer + Educator
︎Born in Coatzacoalcos, Vereracruz • México
︎Auburn, AL • USA
As an educator, I strive to guide my students through the discipline of graphic design as a way to organize complex ideas with visual form, imagery, and textual content. My goal is to properly assist each student, open their minds to be inspired by everything around them, and expand their possibilities to create clear, powerful, and beautiful solutions capable of informing and delighting a specific audience.
My creative research builds on chance operations —“inexactness”—and a combination of experimental digital and analog strategies, which leverage improvisational modes of visual inquiry. Central to my process is the camera, employed as an exploratory tool to engage with found objects and materials.
Publications such as Graphis, Creative Quarterly Journal, GDUSA Magazine, Slanted.de Magazine.
My creative research builds on chance operations —“inexactness”—and a combination of experimental digital and analog strategies, which leverage improvisational modes of visual inquiry. Central to my process is the camera, employed as an exploratory tool to engage with found objects and materials.
FEATURED IN
Publications such as Graphis, Creative Quarterly Journal, GDUSA Magazine, Slanted.de Magazine.
EDUCATION
2016-19
Oklahoma State University / MFA, Graphic Design
2013-16
Oklahoma State University / BFA, Graphic Design
2008-13
Tulsa Community College / AAS, Web Design & AAS, Liberal Arts
2007-08
Tulsa Technology Center / Web Design Certification
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
2022-present
Auburn University / Assistant Professor of Graphic Design
Instructor of Record ::: Graphic Design 1, Image 1 + 2, Photo Communications, Typographics 1.
2019-21
Eastern New Mexico University / Assistant Professor of Graphic Design
Instructor of Record ::: Design 1, Digital Media, Motion Design 1 + 2, Web Design 1 + 2, Graphic Design 1, Typography 1.
2016-19
Oklahoma State University / Graduate Teaching Assistant
Instructor of Record ::: Motion Design 1, Graphic Design 1.
Courses as TA ::: Motion Design Studio, Interaction Design 1.
Full CV upon request.