Professor Philip Loubere teaches applications and advanced classes in the Visual Communication concentration. Prior to joining MTSU, he worked as a visual journalist at three West Coast newspapers—The Seattle Times, the San Jose Mercury News and The Orange County Register—over a period of 12 years from 1996 to 2008. Before that, he taught art and design classes at Pierce College and at the University of Puget Sound, both in Tacoma, Washington.

Prof. Loubere has an M.F.A. degree from the University of Wisconsin Madison, an M.A. from Eastern Illinois University, and a B.F.A. from SUNY College at Buffalo, N.Y. His areas of specialty include information graphics, illustration, print and digital publication design, and front end Web development. He is the author of A History of Communication Technology, published by Routledge in 2021.

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2021: AEJMC Viscom Division, Third Place: Design Competition

2011: AEJMC Viscom Division, Honorable Mention: Creative projects

2007: News Artists Organization, Honorable Mention: First q. quarterly awards

2006: Society for News Design, Award of Excellence: news design/page (with Chuck Burke at SJ Mercury News)

2006: Society for News Design, Award of Excellence: special coverage/single subject (member of graphics team at SJ Mercury News)

2005: Society for News Design, Award of Excellence: special news topics: Reagan Funeral (member of graphics team at SJ Mercury News)

2004: Best of the West, Third Place, informational graphics: California wild fires (member of graphics team at SJ Mercury News)

2004: San Francisco Peninsula Press Club, First and Second Place: graphics team coverage of California wild fires

2002: Society for News Design, World’s Best Designed Daily, 175,000 and over. (member of graphics team at SJ Mercury News)

1995: 67th Annual Juried Exhibition, Art Association of Harrisburg, PA. Second place award

1995: South Sounds Competition, Commencement Gallery, Tacoma, WA. Third place award

1994: 7th Annual Northern National Competition, Nicolet College,  Rhinelander, WI. Patron Award

1994: National Art Merit Competition, Colyer-Weston Art League, Lancaster, PA. Honorable Mention Award

1992: Showcase ’92, Beaverton Arts Commission, Beaverton, OR. Best of Show award

1987: Realism Today 5th Annual Competition, Evansville Museum of Art, Evansville, Indiana. Purchase Award

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2018-2021: MTSyou: Class project with advanced VCOM students to create an online publication on relevant information for MTSU students. mtsyou.net/

2014: Building Green: Website on environmentally responsible home building practices. With student Jordan Kennedy. ploubere.com/greenbuilding/

2012: Tennessee CongressWatch: Website covering Tennessee’s nine congressional district elections. With student Chloe Polivka.
ploubere.com/congresswatch

2011: Covering Islam webinar: Website with conference information and videos of sessions. With student Tala Hobballah.
ploubere.com/coveringislam

2010: Fortress Rosecrans: Interactive online graphic, with student Floris Moriceau, for use by the National Park Service.
ploubere.com/rosecrans/

2010: Good Friday Tornado: Interactive online graphic and print graphic, with student Floris Moriceau and interviews by MTSU Journalism students, published in the Murfreesboro Daily News Journal on April 11, 2010, both in print and online. ploubere.com/tornado/

2009-2017: MTSU School of Journalism website: Design, coding, content management and maintenance. ploubere.com/mtsujournalism

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