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.
Printing Words
Junior, Senior, Fifth-Year, Graduate Elective – 3 credits
Spring 2009
The relationship between language and art will be explored. Early pattern poems, Italian Futurism, Dada, Constructivism, Fluxus and concrete poetry are studied and incorporated as inspiration for your own experimental works. We will continue investigating words as images, discussing perimeters of composition, texture, rhythm, meaning and message. Utilizing large wood type, students hand-set typographic compositions that will be printed in limited editions on the letterpress. Visual poems, broadsides, manifestos, posters, ransom notes, mail art and collages will be created. The final project develops into a hand-bound specimen book of these printed words.
Taught by: Jan Baker
Course #: GRAPH 3249
Graphic Design majors only
Fee:$75.00