Week 10

In Class

• We meet at the Design Lab in 2 West 13th Street, Tenth Floor

Homework

• The deliverables for the final project are: Wordmark for exhibition, Typographic system to be applied on interior labels and marketing communications, Image/Illustration lock ups, OOH poster series, Social assets: Email, Instagram post, Instagram story, Homepage mockup. Continue researching your project. Develop a visual research board and begin working on three options for the wordmark and type system.
• Next week we’re meeting at The New York Historical Society at 4pm at 170 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024. Please make a priority to be on time as we only have an hour for the tour.

Week 9

In Class

• Today’s Notes
• Protest and Ownership slides and discussion
• Review Typographic Compositions
• Introduce Final Project
• Design systems

Homework

• Begin researching your designer/movement/group and hometown for the final project. Gather several visual examples of options and have specific reasons on conceptually why that designer/movement/group would be an appropriate choice for the design of your exhibition.
• From your research, sketch out three posters in InDesign or Illustrator. One should introduce your hometown, one should introduce a potential designer/movement/group, and one should highlight both together. We will refine and print one of these next week in the Riso Lab.
• Next week we are going to the Riso lab. Please meet at 2 West 13th, 10th Floor.

Week 8

In Class

• Midterm meeting order
• Individual midterm meetings

Homework

• Complete Typographic Compositions project and submit on Canvas.
• Read GDH, Ch. 10 Culture of Consumption (1920s to 1930s) and Ripping Off the Resistance by the editors at Eye on Design Update your reference journal. For this entry, it can be more of a short reading response.

Week 7

In Class

• Today’s Notes
• The Medium is the Message, Pop and Protest
• Typographic Compositions
• Bauhaus Feed
• Sign up for midterm meeting

Homework

• Complete Bauhaus feed project and submit on Canvas.
• Read Figuring a Women’s Revolution: Bodies Interacting with their Images – L, translated by Alireza Doostdar. Update your reference journal. For this entry, it can be more of a short reading response.
• Make sure your reference journal is up to date and all work uploaded on Canvas.

Week 6

In Class

• Today’s Notes
• Finish critique, Website Sketches
• International Style
• Introduce Bauhaus Feed
• Revisit form Gif activity

Homework

• Complete Bauhaus feed project and submit on Canvas.
• Read GDH, Ch. 13 Pop and Protest and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Secondwave Feminism — Meg Miller on The New York Times Update your reference journal.
• Make sure your reference journal is up to date! I will be doing midterm reviews soon.

Week 5

In Class

• Today’s Notes
• Visit from Jenny Swadosh, The New School Archives
• Critique, Website Sketches
• Revisit form Gif activity

Homework

• Complete Form Gif activity and submit on Canvas
• Review last week’s readings GDH, Ch. 12 Corporate Identities and International Style (1950s to 1970s) and This Just In: Emory Douglas & The Black Panther on The Letterform Archive. Update your reference journal.

Week 4

In Class

• Today’s Notes
• Something New, Something Old discussion on intentionality
• Design ideas
• Ornamentation, Abstraction, Power in early 20th century introduction
• Timeline of web design
• Small group reviews of wireframes

Homework

• Develop a design idea that will inform all three of your website design sketches. In Figma, have one slide that articulates your concept in 1-2 sentences.
  Include an additional slide that is a mood board. This should visually communicate some of your references that you’re exploring.
  Design your three homepage sketches. They should all focus on the same concept but visually communicate them in new ways, accommodating for the limitations of each time period.
• Read GDH, Ch. 12 Corporate Identities and International Style (1950s to 1970s) and This Just In: Emory Douglas & The Black Panther on The Letterform Archive. Update your reference journal.