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.
Poster Design
Junior, Senior, Fifth-Year, Graduate Elective – 3 credits
Spring 2009
This course will concentrate on the poster format as a communication vehicle. It will advance your experience with two-dimensional form, your ability to express a strong point of view, and will address relationships between type and image at a large scale. The studio assignments will be supported with lectures about the role of the poster within the history of art and design, international poster design, and future possibilities and contexts for the poster as a form.
Taught by: Nancy Skolos
Course #: GRAPH 3272
Graphic Design majors only