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>>Summer Institute for Graphic Design Studies (SIGDS)
RISD Graduate Courses in Graphic Design
| GRAPH 321G |
Andrew Fuller Sloat |
GRADUATE SEMINAR I |
| This seminar will present a forum for discussion on critical issues in graphic design, including: design's context within culture and experience; theory and its relation to practice; and current practice and its models. The course will combine formats of lecture, discussion, small groups, and collaboration to explore the porous borders of graphic design thought and making. Restricted to Graphic Design Majors, First and Second-year Graduate requirement Course may be repeated for credit |
| Semester: Winter |
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| GRAPH 322G |
Dawn Baker Barrett |
GRADUATE SEMINAR II |
| The objective of this course is to assist students in the development of methodologies for exploration, investigation, and construction of a well-designed proposal of thesis work. This seminar provides students with a variety of discursive and exploratory means to identify, locate, reflect on, and develop areas of interest to pursue in the evolution of individual thesis planning, culminating in the presentation of the thesis proposal. Restricted to Graphic Design Majors, First and Second-year Graduate requirement |
| Semester: Spring |
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| GRAPH 323G |
Nancy A. Skolos |
GRADUATE STUDIO |
| This studio course, as groundwork for the graduate thesis, will emphasize inquiry as a primary means for learning. Through making, reflection, collaboration, and critique, we will explore the underlying principles that design objects require, and synthesize theory and practice as necessary partners in graphic design. We will look at the designer's role in the process of revealing and making meaning?as an objective mediator, and as an author/producer, integrating content and form across projects as visual expressions of the preliminary thesis investigation. Restricted to Graphic Design Majors, First and Second-year Graduate requirement |
| Semester: Winter |
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| GRAPH 324G |
Bethany Sage Johns |
GRADUATE STUDIO |
| This studio course is based on the premise that the narrative shaping of information is fundamental to human communication. As active participants in cultural production, graphic designers naturally collaborate within varied areas of expertise, assuming a documentary role in how society views itself. Narrative methods enable us to speak to (and through) any content with a sense of the story it has to tell - visually representing historical, curatorial, scientific, and abstract ideas and events. Students will explore design as a process of storytelling that includes linear and non-linear relationships, with an emphasis on developing formal strategies for multiple approaches to shaping a narrative experience from given as well as self-generated content. Particular emphasis is on sequence, framing, cause and effect, the relationships between elements, and the synthesis of parts into wholes. With text and image, and across media, we employ narrative methods to make sense of complex content meant to be shared and understood. Restricted to Graphic Design Majors, First and Second-year Graduate requirement |
| Semester: Spring |
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| GRAPH 327G |
Hammett Nurosi |
GRADUATE THESIS I |
| The M.F.A. degree requires completion of a graduate thesis. The thesis, as a major undertaking for advanced study and personal development, also assists the student to direct a program of study for an experience that best serves that individual's interests and needs. The thesis is an inquiry into the process, expression and function of the visual in graphic design. Visual search is the primary means to develop original work which products become the examples b which a thesis argument, critique, or point of view is developed and substantiated. The graduate student is encouraged to go beyond established models and to project his/her unique character in the thesis rather than to evidence vocational training, which is implicit. The productions can involve any medium suitable to need and content. Ultimately the thesis is submitted as a written document supported by visual examples that reveal ideas and insights. Two copies of the document remain with the department. Completion is required before graduation and within the normal two-year period of the program as stipulated by the College. Restricted to and Requirement for MFA GRAPH majors |
| Semester: Winter |
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| GRAPH 328G |
Bethany Sage Johns |
GRADUATE THESIS II |
| The M.F.A. degree requires completion of a graduate thesis. The thesis, as a major undertaking for advanced study and personal development, also assists the student to direct a program of study for an experience that best serves that individual's interests and needs. The thesis is an inquiry into the process, expression and function of the visual in graphic design. Visual search is the primary means to develop original work which products become the examples b which a thesis argument, critique, or point of view is developed and substantiated. The graduate student is encouraged to go beyond established models and to project his/her unique character in the thesis rather than to evidence vocational training, which is implicit. The productions can involve any medium suitable to need and content. Ultimately the thesis is submitted as a written document supported by visual examples that reveal ideas and insights. Two copies of the document remain with the department. Completion is required before graduation and within the normal two-year period of the program as stipulated by the College. Restricted to Graphic Design Majors, Graduate Requirement |
| Semester: Spring |
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| GRAPH 329G |
Bethany Sage Johns |
GRADUATE VISITING DESIGNERS |
| This graduate-only Visiting Designers course is an elective offered for the first time this Spring semester. The 2-credit course enrolls up to 15 students, and provides contact with the visiting designers through an intensive workshop formal. The course covers the 12-week semester period. The course objective is to provide graduates contact and interactions with a range of international designers involved in the professional practice and public discourse of graphic design. While the emphasis is on typography and print, these designers actively explore a range of visual form. Each workshop will consider what provokes, inspires, and informs your working methods, and the role that 'publicatin' plays in the communication of your ideas. Restricted to Graphic Design Majors, Graduate Level |
| Semester: Spring |
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| GRAPH 330G |
TBD |
GRADUATE STUDIO ELECTIVE I |
| This elective will explore the interplay of information across varied interactive structures in the widest sense. We will play along the shifting borders of narrative/database; text/image; public/private; physical/virtual; and most of all author/designer. We will work on and off the computer, investigating the concept of phenomenon, craft, and interactive design. This course will be performative and exploratory, and will encourage you to be active participants in shaping and sharing representation of your work in ways that keep up with your ideas. tWhile the emphasis in this course will be constructing an online component for your work, there will be opportunities to translate your content through a variety of media over a series of projects. Whether you have no interactive experience or feel yourself a master of the craft, this course will ask you to (re)think the basic premise of interactivity, to play freely within its zones, and to invent your own. Restricted to Graphic Design Majors, Graduate Level |
| Semester: Spring |
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| GRAPH 332G |
Lucinda Lee Hitchcock |
GRAD TYPE STUDIO I |
| Grad Typography I through III (GRAPH 332G / 342G / 352G) are a sequence of courses that focus on the subject of typography. This sequence covers the fundamentals of typography, its theory, practice, technology and history. Studies range from introductory through advanced levels. Grad Typography I includes: the study of letterforms, type design, proportion, hierarchy, legibility, and structures for composition of multiple type elements. Aspects of contemporary practice and theory are integrated into research and discussion. Restricted to Graphic Design majors Graduate required Senior, fifth-year by permission of instructor |
| Semester: Fall |
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| GRAPH 352G |
Douglass G. Scott |
GRAD TYPOGRAPHY STUDIO III |
| Grad Typography III is the final of a set of required sequence of courses that focus on the subject of typography. This course explores communication and structural aspects of typography and experiments with expressive means of using type to enhance meaning. Building on basic skills students will work on practical applications of advanced typographic design/systems as well as do a research project that concerns theory. Class discussions and demonstrations will complement the process of solving typographical problems. Restricted to Graphic Design Majors, Graduate requirement. Seniors and Fifth-year with permission of instructor |
| Semester: Fall |
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