Last spring my colleague Moon Jang and I co-taught ARGD 4030, Advanced Typography, each designing a complementary half of the course. Moon’s portion focused on letterforms (micro) through the design of a partial custom typeface while my part focused on typesetting and design of larger bodies of text (macro).
I was fortunate this semester to co-teach a large class of Advanced Typography with my colleague, Eileen Wallace, who specializes in book arts and letterpress. The term culminated in the printing of a collaborative broadside that contained a custom designed letterform or numeral from each student (plus one from each of us to cover A–Z…
Second-semester students in my ARGD 3060 class were divided into four groups with each group given one of four real forms/business papers (two invoices, a health insurance EOB and a bank statement). They were asked to review them critically in terms of information hierarchy, typography, readability and general usability. They then quickly attempted their own redesign(s) by…