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Jordan is a designer, educator, agrarian, and creative director. He develops public programs and installations, facilitates educational projects, and creates meaning through visual design and editorial development. His diverse experience reflects his interests in people’s connection to place, public history, and the role of art and design as vehicles for community engagement.
His recent work explores communities’ relationship to place through wayfinding systems and interpretive signage. Projects include the participatory Momentary Monuments, supported by Portland State University’s Creative Placemaking program, and Designing Public History Experiences, a university course developed in collaboration with Five Oaks Museum.
Jordan has created visual design systems for organizations such as the Center for Law, Energy & the Environment at Berkeley Law and Point Blue Conservation Science. He has also developed digital reading experiences and designed books for publishers including Simon & Schuster, Random House, and Springer.
He teaches in the School of Art + Design at Portland State University, with a focus on socially engaged projects. He holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from Portland State University's Art and Social Practice program.
Forever a New Yorker, he now lives in Portland, Oregon.
Jordan is a designer, educator, agrarian, and creative director. He develops public programs and installations, facilitates educational projects, and creates meaning through visual design and editorial development. His diverse experience reflects his interests in people’s connection to place, public history, and the role of art and design as vehicles for community engagement.
His recent work explores communities’ relationship to place through wayfinding systems and interpretive signage. Projects include the participatory Momentary Monuments, supported by Portland State University’s Creative Placemaking program, and Designing Public History Experiences, a university course developed in collaboration with Five Oaks Museum.
Jordan has created visual design systems for organizations such as the Center for Law, Energy & the Environment at Berkeley Law and Point Blue Conservation Science. He has also developed digital reading experiences and designed books for publishers including Simon & Schuster, Random House, and Springer.
He teaches in the School of Art + Design at Portland State University, with a focus on socially engaged projects. He holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from Portland State University's Art and Social Practice program.
Forever a New Yorker, he now lives in Portland, Oregon.
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