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.
Typography III
Junior requirement for majors – 3 credits
Spring 2009
This course will take up advanced problems of typography, such as: various contrasts, structural and proportional systems, hierarchy and sequencing of text as an image, legibility, critical theory, and some elements of the history of typography in relation to technology and contemporary trends in design. All students coming to this class should be familiar with the typographical aspects of the letter, word and line of text, know about the visual arrangement of a printed page, in both single and sequential orders, and have a practical knowledge of computer typesetting.
Taught by: Krzysztof Lenk Hans van Dijk Hammett Nurosi Douglass Scott John Kane
Course #: GRAPH 3223
Graphic Design majors only
Prerequisite: Typography II