© Dimitry Tetin, 2025

I am a designer, educator, and publisher living in Austin, Texas. I am a co-founder of Track and Field Publications where I use publications and experimental print to explore how motion, typography, and design systems translate across media. At Texas State University, I work as an Associate Professor of Communication Design and Coordinator of the BFA program.

I have presented and exhibited my work internationally at venues that include Columbia University, MICA, Boston University, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, American University of Sharjah, Pioneer Works, and Knockdown Center. My writing has appeared in publications from Focal Press and MIT Press. Since starting in 2006 as an Art Director at the Chicago Tribune, I have worked as a designer with Whitehouse & Company, Trollbäck+Company, and C&G Partners on projects for Union Station (Washington, DC), Prudential Financial, JPMorgan Chase, Game Show Network, Fuse, and the Nonprofit Finance Fund. 

Previously, I taught at SUNY New Paltz, served as Critic in Illustration at RISD, and taught at Parsons. I hold an MFA from RISD, a BFA from SAIC, and a BA from the University of Chicago.

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03.Stillness/Stillness

Track and Field 
Austin, Texas
2022
Publication

Inket and letteress (handset)4 x 6 in (54 x 6 in)
N/A

Stillness/Stillness translates a video shot from a train window near West Kingston, Rhode Island, while riding the Amtrak Northeast Regional from Penn Station to Providence. The passenger is both still and in motion, and the landscape unfolds as a prolonged scroll.
The accordion structure mirrors the experience through the structure of the publication: it unfolds in time yet can also be viewed in its entirety. Inside the fold is the colophon and a QR code linking to the complete video

A still from the video was printed on newsprint through Newspaper Club, and the text was set in metal type and printed in white ink on a Vandercook 320G Press. The seamlessness of the digitally recorded experience of the video contrasts with the jaggedness of the hybrid printing processes and the folds of the paper.