Nathan Matteson

Assistant Professor, School of Cinematic Arts, DePaul University

Computation Institute

Areas of Expertise:

  • Design
  • Interactive Media

Nathan is an Assistant Professor in the School of Design’s Graphic Design department. He received his BFA from the University of Tennessee and his MFA from the University of Chicago. He has been teaching and working in Chicago since 1999. His work pointedly ignores commonly accepted boundaries amongst disciplines. Currently he is obsessed with computational methods of typeface generation and letterform modification. He is also a founding member of the product design collaboration Obstructures, and works with the Computation Institute at the University of Chicago designing and building web application interfaces for datasets and mathematical models.