Tiffany Joy Prater, M.F.A.

Tiffany Joy Prater

Associate Professor

Phone678-696-2629

https://linktr.ee/tjciprater

Office locationArt & Technology Building, 2303, Gainesville

Area(s) of Expertise: Visual Communication, Experiential Graphic Design, Typography, Type Design, Motion Graphics, Branding, Editorial Design, User Interface, letterpress, hand-lettering, Design Practices.

Overview

Tiffany Joy I. Prater is an educator at the University of North Georgia, where she guides her students to understand their power of communicating ideas to influence change. Initially from Bahrain, she pursued her B.F.A. from Eastern Illinois University, and earned her M.F.A. from Indiana University, before relocating to Georgia.

Tiffany has served in several communities within the university and has been a mentor to the BFA and BA graphic design majors. She's also a member of several professional organizations, such as the AIGA Atlanta, Femmetype, and the Society of Typographic Arts.

She has worked both in-house and freelance as a designer and illustrator, finding ways to problem-solve creatively and bring ideas to life. Along with exhibiting her work, Tiffany always seeks new ways to collaborate with art and design projects.

Courses Taught

  • Computer Graphics
  • Graphic Design
  • Typography
  • Web Design
  • Experiential Graphic Design
  • Designed Systems
  • Motion Graphics
  • Advanced Typography

Education

  • M.F.A., Graphic Design, Indiana University, 2017
  • B.F.A., Graphic Design, Eastern Illinois University, 2013

Noteworthy

Selected Awards

  • Poster Awards 2024 - Silver Award & Honorable Mention. Graphis NY, 2024
  • Poster Awards 2023 - Honorable Mention. Graphis NY, 2023
  • STA'100 - Top 100 Award. Society of Typographic Arts, 2022