Caren Watkins
Sessional Lecturer at OCAD University
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolCaren Watkins is an award-winning creative director and educator with nine years of focused experience in inclusive design, typography and communications, and a lifelong career spanning editorial, print and digital projects. As a sessional lecturer at OCAD University and a designer/researcher at its Inclusive Design Research Centre, she blends academic rigour with applied design research to make information accessible and usable. She founded Watkins Communication and Design to deliver inclusive communication strategies for clients from the Canadian Women’s Foundation to major sports and cultural organizations, and helped establish the Canadian Typography Archives as a founding board member. Her background includes leading creative teams at major magazines and custom publishing projects, where she drove redesigns and digital strategy that measurably increased readership and revenue. Known for marrying typographic craft with user-centred methods, she brings a rare combination of editorial storytelling, event and publication stewardship, and archival-minded preservation to design practice. Based in Old Toronto, she quietly bridges the worlds of commercial creative leadership and academic inclusive-design research.
9 years of coding experience
BFA honours, communication design, BFA honours, communication design at York UniversityMaster of Design, Inclusive Design, Master of Design, Inclusive Design at OCAD University
Github Skills (3)
css8
eleventy4
netlify-cms3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
carenwatkins/docs-inclusive-learning
Jun 2020 - Feb 2022
Documentation website for the Inclusive Learning Design Handbook - handbook.floeproject.org
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 8 months
documentation-websitedatamininghandbookinclusiveedtech
carenwatkins/guide.inclusivedesign.ca
Feb 2018 - Jul 2020
Contributions:2 pushes in 2 years 4 months
inclusive-designdesign-guidedesign-systemsource-filesinclusive
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