Dylan Fracareta is an American graphic designer, artist and educator. After spending his formative years in The Netherlands (1995–99) he received his MFA from Yale University in 2006. He is the co-founding art director of New York-based architecture magazine PIN–UP (2006–15) and the former design director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, where he was responsible for implementing the MCA’s new graphic identity, exhibition design and catalogues (2015–18). From 2018–19 he worked as the senior director of creative design at the Montreal-based fashion/e-commerce company SSENSE. In 2020 he founded the Rome-based ICCP (International Cultural Commercial Practice), which specializes in publication design, identity systems and digital applications. He has taught as an adjunct professor at RISD, CalArts, UCONN, City College and Fordham University. He is the recipient of the American Academy in Rome 2019 Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Rome Prize in Design.
Courses
Fall 2023 Courses
GRAPH 3210-02 - DESIGN STUDIO 1
LevelUndergraduate
UnitGraphic Design
Subject Graphic Design
Period Fall 2023
Credits 3
FormatStudio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
GRAPH 3210-02
DESIGN STUDIO 1
LevelUndergraduate
UnitGraphic Design
Subject Graphic Design
PeriodFall 2023
Credits3
FormatStudio
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2023-09-06 to 2023-12-13
Times: T | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PMInstructor(s): Dylan FracaretaLocation(s): Design Center, Room 208Enrolled / Capacity: 14Status: Closed
SECTION DESCRIPTION
In the first two semesters of a two-year studio track, students will come into contact with issues and questions that face the contemporary designer. Students will engage with and develop methods to take on these questions: search (formal and intellectual), research, analysis, ideation, and prototyping. Projects will increase in complexity over time, sequenced to evolve from guided inquiry to more open, self-generated methodologies. Some examples of the questions students might work with are: What is graphic? or How are tools shaped by contemporary culture, technology, and convention? or How is a spatial or dimensional experience plotted and communicated? These questions will be accompanied by a mix of precedents, theoretical contexts, readings and presentations, technical and/or formal exercises and working methods.
Please contact the department for permission to register; registration is not available in Workday.
Major Requirement | BFA Graphic Design
GRAPH 3214-03 - TYPOGRAPHY I
LevelUndergraduate
UnitGraphic Design
Subject Graphic Design
Period Fall 2023
Credits 3
FormatStudio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
GRAPH 3214-03
TYPOGRAPHY I
LevelUndergraduate
UnitGraphic Design
Subject Graphic Design
PeriodFall 2023
Credits3
FormatStudio
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2023-09-06 to 2023-12-13
Times: W | 11:20 AM - 4:20 PMInstructor(s): Dylan FracaretaLocation(s): Design Center, Room 704Enrolled / Capacity: 14Status: Closed
SECTION DESCRIPTION
Typography 1 is the first in a three-course sequence that introduces students to the fundamentals of typographic practice, both as a set of technical skills and as an expressive medium. This first semester of typography begins fully zoomed-in -- exploring how and why letterforms are formed. Students will work with various tools and materials to construct letters; with attention paid to meaning, voice and the line between language and abstract form. The second part of the semester concerns itself with setting type. Typesetting is the score for the reading experience. Typesetting conventions and nomenclature will be taught by zooming out from the letter, to the word, to the paragraph and to the page. Students will become comfortable with typographic color and texture in a finite static composition. This is a studio course, so some class time will be used for discussions, most of the time we will be working in class. There is an expectation that students work both individually and in groups and be prepared to speak about their own work and the work of their peers in supportive and respectful ways. A laptop and relevant software are required.
Please contact the department for permission to register; registration is not available in Workday.
