Yoshiko Burke
- 513 556 0164
- 4422 Aronoff
- yoshiko.burke@uc.edu
BFA, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
BA, International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan
Autumn Quarter 2009 Courses
- 23DGTL321 Motion Design I
- 23DGTL371 Digital Design Seminar IV
- 23DGTL401 Digital Design III
- 23DGTL488 Independent Studies
- 23FDST731 Design Graduate Studies
- 23FDST831 Design Graduate Studies
Topics of research and/or creative and professional work
Interactive Communication Design
During the past few years, Yoshiko Burke has had several papers published about digital narrative design and digital media education. She has also produced interactive projects that have garnered national awards including the Telly Awards (Award of Distinction: Documentary - Web Video Category), the Broadcast Education Association Media Arts Festival (First Place: Interactive Multimedia Category), and the Broadcast Education Association Media Arts Festival (Best of Festival: King Foundation Award for Interactive Multimedia).
Prior to her tenure with the University of Cincinnati, Professor Burke has worked professionally over the past decade in the area of Digital Design. She has produced web/multimedia content for a number of Fortune 500 clients, including NCR, RCA, Procter & Gamble, Shockwave.com, New Line Productions, Inc. and Egreetings.com. Yoshiko also served as a Professor at the Savannah College of Art & Design from 1994-96, and worked as an in-house designer for Sanrio Co, Ltd. in Tokyo and as a free-lance illustrator during the late 1980s and the early 1990s. Her work has been featured in Fiberarts Design Book Five and Cosmopolitan Japan. Her artwork has also been exhibited both nationally and internationally.
Her current digital media projects include: Wade in the Water, an educational website about Underground Railroad in the Ohio River Valley, Apparel Making in Fashion Design: An Interactive CD-ROM, contracted by Kyohaku Yeonuk Publishers in Korea, and an interactive web documentary, The New Issei, winner of a 2006 Ohio Arts Council grant, which examines the sense of cultural identity and process of transformation experienced by a group of contemporary first-generation Japanese immigrants.