Claudine Jaenichen
Professor, Life Research Fellow for Communication Research Institute, Wayfinding for Disaster Planning
Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences; Department of Art
Expertise: Graphic Design; Information Design;
Office Location:
Moulton Hall 220
Office Hours: Tuesday & Thursday, 9am – 1pm, by appointment
- Education:
- California Institute of the Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts
University of Reading, Master of Arts
Biography
Professor Jaenichen is an information designer specializing in the relationship between design and cognition. Her recent work in applied design research serves a precise communicative role for, or in, cognitive demanding events. Advocating inclusivity through design is central in pursuing design research for evacuation information and projects that address public information. She prioritizes participatory design methods and the importance of benchmarking as methods to measure the success of a project and how it communicates to its intended audience. She is an Associate Research Fellow for Communication Research Institute, a member of the International Institute of Information Design and American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA). Both her practical design work, as well as her research work, has been included in information design, social sciences, graphic design and psychology national and international publications.
Recent Creative, Scholarly Work and Publications
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Jaenichen, C. (2023). FireClear: Applying visual standards for public-facing wildfire maps. In Saskia van Manen, C. Jaenichen, T. Lin, K. Kremer, R. Ramírez. (Eds.), Design for Emergency Management. Routledge Press.
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Jaenichen, C., S. van Manen, T. Lin, K. Kremer, R. Ramírez. (Eds.). (2023). Design for Emergency Management. Routledge Press.
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TAB: Journal of Poetry & Poetica. Vol 11. Creative Director. Online and print publication for a national (and international) journal of poetry and poetics.
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FireClear, a public-facing evacuation mapping standard for wildfire-prone areas—Sacramento County and seven cities within the county.
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TAB: Journal of Poetry & Poetica. Vol 10. Creative Director. Online and print publication for a national (and international) journal of creative and critical writing.
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Continued work supported by The California Governor's Office of Emergency Services: TsunamiClear, a public-facing evacuation mapping standard for coastal cities in California.
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“TsunamiClear public-facing evacuation maps” featured case study in Information Design Workbook, 2nd edition. Kim Baer. Rockport Publishers (September 2021)
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Redwood National and State Parks. Public-facing tsunami evacuation map standards for California National and State Parks. Endorsed by NOAA, California Geological Survey, National Weather Service, and Design Network for Emergency Management, 2021
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TAB: Journal of Poetry & Poetica. Vol 9. Creative Director. Online and print publication for a national (and international) journal of creative and critical writing.
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Continued work supported by The California Governor's Office of Emergency Services: TsunamiClear, a public-facing evacuation mapping standard for coastal cities in California.
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Worked with Sedona, AZ, Carson, and Ontario on bilingual public-facing Emergency-Ready Guide.
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FireClear, a public-facing evacuation mapping standard for wildfire-prone areas—Nine Cities in South Orange County, CA (Aliso Viejo, Laguna Beach, Irvine, Dana Point, Laguna Hills, Laguna Woods, Laguna Niguel, San Clemente, San Juan Capistrano)
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“Let’s Talk About Animals.” S. van Manen, C. Jaenichen, K Kremer, T Lin, and R. Ramírez. Australian Journal of Emergency Management (July 2021)
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Ross, J. and C. Jaenichen. 2021. Visual Infrastructures of COVID-19 Messaging in Inmaterial. Diseño, Arte y Sociedad, volume 6, issue 12 (2021)
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Continued design work for FEMA with the Argonne National Laboratory US Department of Energy. Argonne Associate.
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Continued work supported by The California Governor's Office of Emergency Services: TsunamiClear, a public-facing evacuation mapping standard for coastal cities in California.
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Continued work supported by CalFire and FireSafe Marin: FireClear, a public-facing evacuation mapping standard for wildfire-prone cities in northern California.
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Worked with the City of Newport Beach and the Department of Emergency Management to publish public-facing Emergency-Ready Guide. Orange County, Ca.
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TAB: Journal of Poetry & Poetica. Vol 8. Creative Director. Online and print publication for a national (and international) journal of creative and critical writing.
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Work supported by The California's Governor's Office of Emergency Services: FireClear evacuation map standards for the City of Novato as well as Marin County.
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Argonne National Laboratory US Department of Energy. Argonne Associate. Design work for FEMA.
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Work supported by The California's Governor's Office of Emergency Services: TsunamiClear evacuation map standards for the City of Newport Beach.
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TAB: Journal of Poetry & Poetica. Vol 7. Creative Director. Online and print publication for a national (and international) journal of creative and critical writing.
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NEA Art Works Grant “Your Body Is a Space That Sees” with Lia Halloran | poetry by Leahy | Design by Jaenichen | plus other collaborators—The project is based on the research and creation of forty works of art and a female-centric astronomical catalog that traces major discoveries of women in astronomy since antiquity. The project culminates with public lectures and a publication pairing artwork with accompanying written pieces from contemporary female authors in literature, poetry, and physics as an interdisciplinary re-visualization in the art and science community. The Catalog will be available at The Norton Simon Museum and LACMA.
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Led and coordinated an international evidence-based study on consumer understanding of credit card statements and credit card debt with the Communication Research Institute.
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Work supported by the California's Governor's Office of Emergency Services: TsunamiClear maps for 4 additional cities including, Seal Beach, Sunset Beach, Laguna Beach, and San Francisco. Two more TsunamiClear kiosks were posted in Marina Del Rey, Los Angeles, and La Jolla, San Diego.
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Work supported by the California's Governor's Office of Emergency Services: FireClear evacuation map standards for Aliso Viejo and Laguna Beach; nuclear safety information for Huntington Beach, Laguna Beach and Aliso Viejo; earthquake safety information for Orange County; and active shooting safety information for San Diego State University, Aliso Viejo, Laguna Beach, and Del Mar.
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TAB: Journal of Poetry & Poetica. Vol 6. Creative Director. Online and print publication for a national (and international) journal of creative and critical writing.
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TAB: Journal of Poetry & Poetica. Vol 5. Creative Director. Online and print publication for a national (and international) journal of creative and critical writing.
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Jaenichen, C. (2017). Leisure, Direct, Urgent, and Emergency: The role of visual communication and cognition in everyday decision-making. "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Graphics and Applications" (IEEE CG&A), 37(6), 10-18. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8103316/
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Jaenichen, C. (2017). Teaching advocacy, participatory, and evidence based design to undergraduate graphic design students. "Information Design Journal," 23(3), 334–356. https://benjamins.com/catalog/idj.23.3.06jae
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Jaenichen, C. and Dr. Steven Schandler (2017). “Visual Standards for Southern California Tsunami Evacuation Information: Applications of Information Design in Disaster Risk Management” was published in Design, User Experience, and Usability: Understanding Users and Contexts, pp.645-663
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Leahy, Anna, Lia Halloran, Claudine Jaenichen. Text(ure), Modeling, Collage: Creative Writing and the Visual Arts. What We Talk About When We Talk About Creative Writing by Anna Leahy. Multilingual Matters
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TAB: Journal of Poetry & Poetica. Vol 4. Creative Director. Online and print publication for a national (and international) journal of creative and critical writing.
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Applied Research and Design Work: Coronado School District (K–12) Visual Standards for Emergency Preparedness
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I serve as an advisor to the Guemil project, an open source pictogram initiative oriented to risk and emergency situations. Guemil developed a methodology for an international study on the success of necessary performance tasks of these icons. Its first round of testing was completed this year.
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“Deep Sky Companion” Exhibition Catalog for Los Angeles artist, Lia Halloran. Folded size 11×17, printed 4-color with glow ink.
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Aperture (Shearsman Books) | Poetry by Leahy | Book Design by Jaenichen | Cover Art by Halloran—As the title suggests, Aperture opens gaps through which to see and hear the lives of imagined and actual women. This collection becomes a stage on which these women perform, and the poems play with notions of staging, with how we present ourselves and how we are perceived and represented by others. The stories and voices in Aperture “bend and come back again,” telling the truth slant.
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Editor. Chapman University Design Symposium Journal. Vol. 3
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Health Design Network (2016). Jaenichen, C., Schandler, S., Wells, M., Danielsen, T., & Wilcox, M. California Tsunami Evacuation Information. pdf
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TAB: Journal of Poetry & Poetica. Vol 3. Creative Director. Online and print publication for a national (and international) journal of creative and critical writing.
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Applied Research and Design Work: Tsunami Evacuation Information. Information evacuation campaign applied to the Los Angeles county,
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Editor. Chapman University Design Symposium Journal. Vol. 2.
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Creative work published. Jaenichen, C., Dr. Steven Schandler, Wilcox, M.. 2014. Tsunami evacuation Information: Creating Continuity and Visual Standards for Southern California. 2+3d Grafika Plus Produkt (Polish Design Quarterly) nr15 (11/2014): 13 issn 1642-7602
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TAB: Journal of Poetry & Poetica. Vol 2. Creative Director. Online and print publication for a national (and international) journal of creative and critical writing.
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Leahy, Anna, Lia Halloran, Claudine Jaenichen. 2014. “Text(ure), Modeling, Collage: Creative Writing and the Visual Arts” New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing 11:14
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Editor. Chapman University Design Symposium Journal. Vol. 1. Issue 1.
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TAB: Journal of Poetry & Poetica. Vol 1.2–1.12. Creative Director. Online and print publication for a national (and international) journal of creative and critical writing. TAB publishes the finest contemporary poetry and criticism about poetry; provides a forum in which the poetic tradition is practiced, extended, challenged, and discussed by emerging and established voices; encourages wide appreciation of poetry and expand the audience for poetry and criticism. Executive Editor is Anna Leahy.
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Applied Research and Design Work: Tsunami Evacuation Information. Recall studies and a design campaign is being applied to the San Diego county, including City of San Diego, Coronado, Imperial Beach, Carlsbad, Solano Beach, National City, Oceanside, Encinitas, Del Mar, and Camp Pendleton.
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Creative work published. Mollerup, Per. 2013. Wayshowing > Wayfinding: Basics and Interactive. BIS Publishers, UK
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Applied Research and Design Work: Tsunami Evacuation Information. Recall studies and a design campaign was applied to the cities of Huntington Beach and San Clemente.
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Bracken, Kaitlyn. "H.B. Reworks Tsunami Evacuation Map" The OC Register (Orange County) 13 Nov. 2013: L7
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Santa Barbara Emergency Management Department. Design guidelines developed from my research in evacuation communication is being implemented by Santa Barbara, CA towards a county-wide public education information campaign. 2011-2012
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Understanding of Cognitive Recall in Informational and Instructional Evacuation Information. Acting as principal investigator in collaboration with co-principal investigator, Dr. Stephen Schandler—the Director of Cognitive Psycho-physiology Laboratories, Professor of Psychology—and students from the graphic design and psychology program. This study addresses cognitive studies in visual and information recall performance of evacuation material and currently applied in Santa Barbara, followed by Huntington Beach.
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Tabula Poetica / TAB: Journal of Poetry & Poetica. Creative Director. Online and print publication for a national (and international) journal of creative and critical writing. TAB publishes the finest contemporary poetry and criticism about poetry; provides a forum in which the poetic tradition is practiced, extended, challenged, and discussed by emerging and established voices; encourages wide appreciation of poetry and expand the audience for poetry and criticism. Executive Editor is Anna Leahy.
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“Medicine information and packaging design initiated in an undergraduate graphic design curriculum” published in the Information Design Journal. 2011
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"Taxonomy of semiotics and visualization in evacuation material: improving city evacuation instructions" published in Parsons Institute for Information Mapping. 2011
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Nominated and promoted by the Board of Governors from Associate Research Fellow to Life Research Fellow for Communication Research Institute. 2011
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Chair of the International IIID Awards in Healthcare and Design. 2011
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Jaenichen, C. 2011. Santa Barbara Tsunami Evacuation Information Project, shortlisted for the International Institute of Information Design (IIID) Awards. Published in IIID Award Book, Axis Magazine (Japan) and the Information Design Journal (UK)
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“Failure, Empathy and Information Design.” Lofty Ambitions: Aviation, Science, and Writing. Posted December 6, 2010 (retrieved on June 29, 2011) at http://loftyambitions.wordpress.com
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Exhibit committee for "A Class Action: Mendez V. Westminister and the Grassroots Struggle for School Desegregation" at the Museum of Tolerance, Los Angeles. 2010
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"From evacuation orders to evacuation instructions: Assessing public evacuation documents." Published in Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal. 2010
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Creative work published in Visual Language for Designers: Principles for Creating Graphics That People Understand by Ina Connie Malamed, Rockport. 2009
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Curator for VISUAL URGENCY: VISIBLE PERSPECTIVES OF SOCIETAL CRISIS at Chapman University's Guggenheim Gallery. Visual Urgency explores an unexpected aesthetic, considers multiple uses of materials and examines a visual taxonomy derived from an emotive response initiated by some level of environmental, cultural or societal crisis. Converging a diversity of disciplines and body of work that would not otherwise be seen together, Visual Urgency attempts to connect commonalities rather than differences in the work of designers, photographers, artists, architects, physicians and engineers. 2009
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Key administrator for DD4ME—DATA DESIGNED FOR DECISIONS: ENHANCING SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRESS. KEY ADMINISTRATOR FOR DEVELOPING, COORDINATING AND WRITING INTERNATIONAL STUDENT PROJECT INITIATIVE. The project was sponsored by the International Institute of Information Design (IIID) and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Universities, including Carnegie Mellon, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, submitted design explorations questioning how statistical data enters our lives. The discussion and outcomes will be published and provided at the third World Forum on “Charting Progress, Building Visions, Improving Life” to be held in Busan, Korea on 27-30 October 2009. The European Commission, the World Bank and the United Nations development program are just some of the organizations who are collaborating with the OECD on this truly global work. 2009
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Paper published in The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences. 2009
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“The Taxonomy of Urgent Wayfinding: Assessing Graphic Variables, Components and Rules of Legibility in City Evacuation Maps” published in Journal of Applied Global Research. 2009
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Associate editor for Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal. 2009
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"Chino Creek Wetlands Educational Park Project", creative work published in Graphic Design USA Design Annual. Client: Inland Empire Utilities Agency. In collaboration with public artist, Richard Turner, architectural elements and signage for a 22-acre park were designed, produced and installed. Water quality, flood control, environmental restoration, urban development, recreation and water conservation were some of the park’s locational themes. The art/architecture program for the park was an expression of the agency’s desire to employ recycled materials in an educational, engaging and imaginative campaign. 2008
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“The Taxonomy of Urgent Wayfinding: Assessing Graphic Variables, Components and Rules of Legibility in City Evacuation Maps” published in Applications of Information Design, Sweden. 2008
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Associate Research Fellow for the Communication Research Institute (CRI). Perform research and benchmarking activities in assessing or creating performance-based documents within regulatory guidelines. Includes investigating organizational and social practices which affect communication quality. As an independent research team, Institute Fellows undertake the final decisions on the conduct of studies and the analysis of the results. These are member-commissioned reports which analyze data from the reports and provide specialist advice on how to improve areas of design and communication. 2006-2011