Dr. Wayne Carlson is currently the Chair of the Department of Design at the Ohio State University. He has been on the faculty at OSU since 1988, and has joint appointments in the Departments of Art, Art Education, and Computer Science. He has a PhD in Computer Graphics from Ohio State and a M.S. in Mathematics from Idaho State University. He is widely published in the computer graphics literature, and is often invited to give presentations in the area of visual effects. Dr. Carlson is active in his community of Grandview Heights and serves on the Board of the local Historical Society.