Art 101-B: Special Project - Foundations: Typography in the Expanded Field

This class will explore typography as a bridge between the creative fields of visual art, design, and writing. Lectures and readings will include the critical exploration of artists who use text to disrupt, poets who use it as material, and designers who use it to persuade Assignments will incorporate printmaking, graphic design, animation, writing, and drawing. Students will be challenged to de-familiarize the ubiquitous world of typography to better understand the logic of how it operates and its influence over how we make sense of the world. Applies to the Foundations requirement.