Design IV:
Advanced Typography


This course will build on learning objectives and typographic skills. Emphasis will be placed on the complex interplay of visual meaning and form and typographic sensitivity within a historical context.


WEEKLY LETTER


This is an ongoing generative exercise that should spur your process and making skills while allowing you an opportunity to explore and experiment with the form of the letter. The rigor of creating on a regular basis and sticking to one particular form should yield a robust body of work that could become many things: a book; an ongoing website; cards; etc.



INFORMATION KIOSK



For this project, students pair a location of their choice with a researched concept to engage an audience in a visible and public context. The concept should connect in some way to the space you chose, whether it is a awareness campaign, an historical account of an event, or narrative of the space. Consider how you can activate the space; encourage someone to respond to your information; change someone’s relationship with the space; change someone’s point of view; and/or alter someone’s experience in the environment.




COLLECTIONS BOOK



Design an Exhibition Catalogue to accompany a (fictitious) exhibition held at the Design Center at Philadelphia University. The collection on display at this exhibition is of your own concept and curation.