Cassie Hester

 Cassie Hester

Department

  • Art

Discipline

  • Art
  • Graphic Design

Title

  • Graphic Design Coordinator & Associate Professor

Contacts

chester@caad.msstate.edu
205 Howell Hall

Overview

Summary:

Cassie Hester is interested in the manipulation of type and message. You can usually find her painstakingly making — and then methodically breaking — physical type. Hester received her BFA in Graphic Design from the University of Georgia and her MFA in Design/Visual Communications from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her typographic explorations have been featured in publications such as AIGA Eye on Design, Print, Graphis, eg Magazine, Metropolis, and Step Inside Design. She has presented her work at numerous international design exhibitions and conferences reaching from New York to New Zealand.

Education:

  • Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Design, Virginia Commonwealth University, 2012
  • Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Art, University of Georgia, 2008

Areas of Expertise

typography graphic design branding design surface design textile design illustration environmental design experiential design