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Hire Dr. Elzbieta Kazmierczak
United States
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Infographics Designer & Technical Illustrator | 20+ years of experience in visualization & academic publishing

Profile Summary
Subject Matter Expertise
Services
Academic research Secondary data compilation
Work Experience

Adjunct Assistant Professor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

October 2015 - Present

Researcher & Scholarly Consultant

Self-Employed

2015 - Present

Infographics, Graphic Designer, Illustrator

Self-Employed

1985 - Present

Managing Editorial Assistant

University of Illinois Press

October 2016 - October 2018

Art for Empowerment Educator

Self-emloyed

August 2003 - August 2017

Graduate Teaching Assistant

University of Illinois

2008 - 2011

Visiting Assistant Professor

Southern Illinois University Carbondale

2006 - 2008

Assistant Professor; Illustration Program Head

State University of New York

1996 - 2003

Instructor

Capilano University

1995 - 1996

Education

Master of Arts (Art Education)

University of Illinois

1993 - 1995

Master of Fine Arts (Graphic Design)

University of Illinois

1990 - 1993

no degree, study in Philosophy (Philosopy)

University of Łódź

1982 - 1985

Bachelor of Fine Arts (Graphic Design & Textile Design)

Academy of Fine Arts

1979 - 1984

Certifications
  • Certification details not provided.
Publications
BOOK CHAPTER
Kazmierczak, E., & Storkerson, P. (in press). Understanding and making visualizations: Adventures in tacit knowledge. In M.-T. Cheng and Y. Cooper (Eds.), New Visions in Art Education Research and Practices. Shanghai, China: Shanghai Education Press.
Kazmierczak, E. (2016). Engaging communities through an art program at a domestic violence shelter. In L. N. Hersey and B. Bobick (Eds.), Handbook of research on the facilitation of civic engagement through community art (339–366). Hershey, PA: IGI Global .
Kazmierczak, E. (2004). Embodiment and image making. In W. Nöth and G. Ipsen (Eds.), Body, embodiment, disembodiment. International Congress of the German Association for Semiotic Studies. Kassel, Germany: Kassel University Press, ISBN 3-89958-045-1, cd-rom.
Kazmierczak, E. (2000). In the beginning was the circle: Longing for perfection as a semiotic paradigm. In A. Gimate-Welsh (Ed.), Selected Papers–6th Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies (629–640). Mexico City, Mexico: Grupo Editorial Miguel Angel Porrua.
Kazmierczak, E. (2001). Why do we want Tricksters? In C. W. Spinks (Ed.), Trickster an ambivalence: The dance of differentiation (143–151). Madison, WI: Atwood Publishing.
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Stephen J. Dollinger, Elzbieta (Elka) Kazmierczak & Peter K. Storkerson (2011): Creativity and Self-Exploration in Projective Drawings of Abused Women: Evaluating the Inside Me–Outside Me Workshop, Journal of Creativity in Mental Health, 6:3, 202-219 .
Kazmierczak, E. (2003). Design as meaning making: From making things to design of thinking. Design Issues: History, Theory, Criticism, 19(2), 45–59,
 https://doi.org/10.1162/074793603765201406 .
Kazmierczak, E. (2000). A semiotic perspective on visual literacy, aesthetic preferences, and information design. Information Design Journal, 10(2), 176–187, 
 https://doi.org/10.1075/idj.10.2.15kaz .
Elzbieta T. Kazmierczak (2001) Iconicity, diagrammatics, and aesthetic preferences, Visual Sociology, 16:1, 89-99, DOI: 10.1080/14725860108583828d .
Kazmierczak, E. (2000). Shortcuts to meaning, or diagrams and making sense out of image-text de-signs. Semiotics 2000, 142–159, New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 
DOI: 10.5840/cpsem200035 .
Kazmierczak, E. (1999). Portrait of a woman or diagrammatic modeling in art. Semiotics 1999, 360–373. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, DOI: 10.5840/cpsem199934 .
Kazmierczak, E. (1998). Triangle as the Trickster redeemer of human sensitivity, imagination, and improvisation: The tao of J.J. The American Journal of Semiotics, 14(1–4), 190–207, DOI: 10.5840/ajs1998141/414 .
Kazmierczak, E. (1995). Introduction to semiography or approaching the visual language. Semiotics 1995, 198-207, DOI: 10.5840/cpsem199529 .
Kazmierczak, E. (1995). Universals in visual codification. Semiotische Berichte, 19(1–4), 131–152. Vienna, Austria: Institute for Socio-Semiotic Studies.
Kazmierczak, E. (1994). Philosophy and aesthetic preferences: Symmetry versus asymmetry. Semiotics 1994, 370–379. New York: Peter Lang Publishing .
CONFERENCE PAPER
Kazmierczak, E. (2001). On Diagrammatic Nature of Representation: Art, Design, and Information as Modeling Forms of Thinking. Proceedings of The 6th World Congress of the International Association for Visual Semiotics: The Visual in the Age of Post-Visual, Laval University, Quebec City, Canada.
MAGAZINE ARTICLE
Kazmierczak, E. (1989). Semiographic analysis of primeval symbols: Part 1 and 2. Poligrafika, 7, 160–168, and Poligrafika, 10, 239–242. Warsaw, Poland .
BOOK
Kazmierczak, E. (1986 & 1990 fully revised). Principal choremes in semiography: Circle, square, and triangle. A historical outline. Warsaw, Poland: Institute for Industrial Design.