Collaborative Letterform Workshop

learning, students, teaching

We were lucky to have design/educator Helen Armstrong visit earlier this semester. She conducted various workshops while she was at UGA including this one on collaborative letterform design with my ARGD 3060 students (+ plus a few random other students thrown in). The students digitized the letterforms after the workshop then did quick poster designs based on…

Redesign of the Mundane

students, teaching

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…