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.
TEXTperience/TEXTperiment
Junior, Senior, Fifth-Year, Graduate Elective – 3 credits
Spring 2009
For those interested in the opportunity to play with type and to experiment with the way visible language is experienced this course is for you! The course starts with introductory assignments to open up the possibilities for experiment. Then, according to individual interests, it moves into an open laboratory atmosphere to experience (= experiment) type as content and its poetic potential for visible language (topics for inquiry can include: de/re/con/struct type; type in planar and dimensional space; type in motion; type as/and image; electronic type; type and materiality, light, sound, speed; question what makes good and bad type; type and indeterminacy). To avoid self-indulgent hodgepodge we will not forget that letters serve the purpose of forming words and that words generally serve a pragmatic purpose to express ideas; and will consider how type can serve that purpose in an integrative way to help frame, engage and inspire the reader/viewer into the depth and breadth of such ideas.
Taught by: Thomas Ockerse
Course #: GRAPH 3265
Graphic Design majors only