Helga Watkins
graphic design/computer graphics
Associate Professor of Art

Office: GRA 203
702. 895. 4804
helga.watkins@unlv.edu

Classes:	Drawing I (Art 101)
	Design Fundamentals III (Art 109 | Art 156)

Environmental Graphic Design bridges architecture and graphic design; it concerns directing people through spaces, providing information in an accessible and engaging way, and is often expected to create an experience.But that sounds rather sedate to us in here in Vegas. A city couldn't suit me better for designing in. Its visual idiom is crazed and self-contradictory; full of humor and irony. Even after years of designing in the entertainment industry, I am continually surprised at each new permutation; draw a caricature of cultural artifice (which never existed but might be teased from the popular imagination), then pump it up with super-saturated color and an exploding detergent-box composition.

Helga Watkins joined the faculty to provide specialized instruction in computer graphics and graphic design. She has worked as an art director and contract designer in identity and environmental graphic design. Her work in theming and wayfinding design is found internationally in hotels, cruiseliners, and casinos. A few of her local projects have include the interior signage design and custom gaming graphics for Mandalay Bay, Venetian, SunCoast, SouthCoast, and the graphics and wayfinding system for the Orleans Arena.

MFA, University of Notre Dame
BFA, Savannah College of Art and Design

 

Partial list of clients and projects:

The Goldcoast Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, NV
Harrah's Casino, Las Vegas, NV
Harrah's Casino, New Zealand
Luxor Resort Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, NV
Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino, Las Vegas, NV
Monte Carlo Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, NV
The Orleans Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, NV
The Orleans Arena, Las Vegas, NV
Paris Las Vegas Resort Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, NV
Rio Suite Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, NV
Royal Carribean Cruise Lines
Stratosphere Casino Hotel & Tower, Las Vegas, NV
The Suncoast Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, NV
Sunset Station Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas, NV
The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino, Las Vegas, NV

 

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