The Department of Graphic Design offers a four-year Bachelor of Fine Arts program, with the opportunity to pursue a fifth year of study leading to the Bachelor of Graphic Design degree. It also offers a Master of Fine Arts in Graphic Design. Additionally, RISD Graphic Design offers workshops and credit-bearing courses during the summer.
Making Meaning
Junior requirement for majors – 6 credits
Fall 2008
This course introduces techniques of image making in relation to ways of analyzing and creating meaning in graphic and typographic messages. Aspects of image making, information design, visual narrative and semiotics will be explored in the context of practice and theory.
Taught by: Lucinda Hitchcock Hans van Dijk Hammett Nurosi Thomas Wedell Jacek Mrowczyk
Course #: GRAPH 3226
Graphic Design majors only
Prerequisite: Typography I
Prerequisite: Form + Communication
Prerequisite: Typography II
Prerequisite: History of Graphic Design