Typographic Joinery: Form, History, and Abstraction As an intro­ductory explo­ration of typographic form, students were challenged to create original visual config­u­ra­tions by combining letter­forms from the Latin alphabet. Through this typographic joinery, they inves­ti­gated proportion, weight, counterform, and spatial relation­ships — gaining a deeper under­standing of letter­forms not just as carriers of content, but as […]

Students created book jacket designs for a publi­cation of their choice. Sketching and the overall process included what imagery or visual language is appro­priate for the story. Discus­sions also included the difference between stories told on printed pages and stories told on film. Filmog­raphy imagery was avoided on purpose. Students inves­ti­gated imagery for their book […]

Expressing Visual Solutions Through Typog­raphy In this project, students designed exhibition posters using expressive typog­raphy as the central visual language. Each student selected an artist, scientist, or art movement to research and interpret — visually capturing its energy, mood, and conceptual essence through abstracted letter­forms and original typographic compo­sition. Impor­tantly, students were not allowed to […]

Students designed a multi-format poster campaign promoting a documentary series, exhibition, organi­zation, or media platform. Rather than centering a logo or singular image, the project focused on systems thinking—asking students to develop a flexible visual vocab­ulary capable of functioning consis­tently across multiple outputs. Through research, sketching, and iteration, students estab­lished relation­ships between form, color, typography, […]

In this project, students were asked to create a graphic trans­lation of an animal, bird, or insect — beginning with simplified, black-and-white visual forms. The objective was to explore how abstraction, reduction, and stylization could be used to commu­nicate the essence of a subject without relying on photo­graphic realism. The process began with obser­va­tional drawing, […]

This assignment intro­duces students to typog­raphy as a visual language — one that can express emotion, meaning, and identity beyond the literal defin­ition of a word. It also initiates students into the founda­tional question of typographic design: Can type speak louder than words? Students were asked to select a single word and visually interpret its meaning […]