{"id":184,"date":"2011-04-18T14:37:43","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T00:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/john.devylder.com\/?page_id=184"},"modified":"2011-04-18T14:39:25","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T00:39:25","slug":"biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/john.devylder.com\/?page_id=184","title":{"rendered":"Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong>John DeVylder began working as a graphic designer 1996. He developed  his craft designing print and interactive media\u2014creating identities,  marketing material and web sites for Fortune 500 companies, non-profit  organizations and other institutions across a wide spectrum of  industries. John&#8217;s talents have been employed by Mark Oldach Design Ltd,  <a href=\"http:\/\/liska.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Liska + Associates Inc.<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/arcww.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Arc Worldwide<\/a> (a Leo Burnett company, formerly Semaphore Partners and Giant Step).  Since 2005 John has maintained a freelance design practice working as a  free agent developing user-friendly brand experiences online.<\/p>\n<p>From 2008 to 2010, John held the title of full-time Professor of Graphic Design at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scad.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Savannah College of Art and Design<\/a> (SCAD) in Savannah, GA. There he taught courses primarily focused on  web design, but also typography, digital illustration and design  methodologies. Prior to this position, John taught courses and assisted  professors at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saic.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">The School of the Art Institute of Chicago<\/a> (SAIC) while earning his MFA in Visual Communication. John received his undergraduate degree, a BFA in Graphic Design, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.risd.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rhode Island School of Design<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Late in 2003, looking for a reprieve from pushing pixels, John enrolled in a letterpress course at <a href=\"http:\/\/bookandpaper.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Center for Book and Paper Arts<\/a> at Columbia College in Chicago, IL. Within months he had  serendipitously acquired three letterpresses (one quite small, the  others quite large) and began developing his skills as a printer. Now  located in Sydney, Australia, only one press (a Sigwalt Nonpareil No.  25) made the journey across the Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John DeVylder began working as a graphic designer 1996. He developed his craft designing print and interactive media\u2014creating identities, marketing material and web sites for Fortune 500 companies, non-profit organizations and other institutions across a wide spectrum of industries. John&#8217;s talents have been employed by Mark Oldach Design Ltd, Liska + Associates Inc., and Arc [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/john.devylder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/184"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/john.devylder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/john.devylder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/john.devylder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/john.devylder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/john.devylder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188,"href":"http:\/\/john.devylder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/184\/revisions\/188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/john.devylder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}