Sheri Flournoy Selph
Associate Professor
Departments / Programs
- Department of Art and Design
- Art, Graphic Design
- Art, Visual Arts
- Video Production (Motion Design Concentration Only)
Degree Information
- MFA, University of Tennessee, Knoxville (2001)
- BFA, Louisiana Tech University (1998)
Areas of Expertise
Graphic Design, Print & Email Marketing, Interactive Design, Photography, Illustration, Typography, and Motion Graphics
Biography
Sheri Flournoy Selph is Creative Director and Assistant Professor of graphic design at Middle Tennessee State University. Sheri has 20+ years experience in the professional creative industry where her area of expertise is creative direction for marketing and advertising and its auxiliary fields of branding, photography, website and social media promotional design, direct marketing, and motion graphics.
Sheri's professional work includes pri...
Read More »Sheri Flournoy Selph is Creative Director and Assistant Professor of graphic design at Middle Tennessee State University. Sheri has 20+ years experience in the professional creative industry where her area of expertise is creative direction for marketing and advertising and its auxiliary fields of branding, photography, website and social media promotional design, direct marketing, and motion graphics.
Sheri's professional work includes print and online design for Wyndham Hotel Group, MGM Resorts International, Caesar's Entertainment, Wells Fargo, BBVA Compass Bank, Disney, Ferrari, Hyundai Motor Company and the Kroger Corporation just to name a few.
Sheri has recently led creative initiatives on projects funded by grant contracts with the State of Tennessee, Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services and supported marketing efforts through design for the national nonprofit Down Syndrome Diagnosis Network (dsdn.org). Her courses taught at MTSU include Word and Image, Interactive Design I, Typography in Motion, and Graphic Design Senior Capstone.
Presentations
A Novel Idea: Students Utilize the Literary Experience to Conceptualize Political Campaign Branding and Design in an Exhibition Called In the Books
Co-presented with Assistant Professor Stefanie Cobb
SECAC 2020 - Hosted by Virginia Commonwealth University
Awards
Peoples Choice Award
(Co-presented with student researcher Bethani Walton)
Adobe Creative Jam 2018
Nashville, Tennessee
Research / Scholarly Activity
Failure is the Mother of Success: A case for AR experimentation in the graphic design classroom. (Poster)
UCDA Design Education Summit: Collaborate Poster Presentation 2023
Visualizing Success: Strategies for How to Effectively Merge Creative Design with Program Evaluation (Poster)
Evaluation 2020 Accepted Speaker, AEA Eval20 Reimagined, A...
Failure is the Mother of Success: A case for AR experimentation in the graphic design classroom. (Poster)
UCDA Design Education Summit: Collaborate Poster Presentation 2023
Visualizing Success: Strategies for How to Effectively Merge Creative Design with Program Evaluation (Poster)
Evaluation 2020 Accepted Speaker, AEA Eval20 Reimagined, American Evaluation Association 2020
Find Your People: Students Create New Communities as a Way to Bring Together Outliers in an Exhibition Called "Belong". (Poster)
UCDA Design Education Summit: Collaborate Poster Presentation 2019
Courses
Graphic Design Senior Capstone
Emerging Methods in Interaction Design
Graphic Design Agency
Introduction to Interaction Design
Integrated Brand Design
