Teaching Graphic Design: Course Offerings and Class Projects from the Leading Graduate and Undergraduate Programs

More Than Sixty Course Syllabi That Bring the New Complexity of Graphic Design to Light
All graphic designers teach, yet not all graphic designers are teachers. Teaching is a special skill requiring talent, instinct, passion, and organization. But while talent, instinct, and passion are inherent, organization must be acquired and can usually be found in a syllabus. Teaching Graphic Design, Second Edition, contains syllabi that are for all practicing designers and design educators who want to enhance their teaching skills and learn how experienced instructors and professors teach varied tools and impart the knowledge needed to be a designer in the current environment.

This second edition is newly revised to include more than thirty new syllabi by a wide range of professional teachers and teaching professionals who address the most current concerns of the graphic design industry, including product, strategic, entrepreneurial, and data design as well as the classic image, type, and layout disciplines. Some of the new syllabi included are:

Expressive Typography

Designer as Image Maker

Emerging Media Production

Branding

Corporate Design

Graphic Design and Visual Culture

Impact! Design for Social Change

And many more

Beginning with first through fourth year of undergraduate courses and ending with a sampling of graduate school course options, Teaching Graphic Design, Second Edition, is the most comprehensive collection of courses for graphic designers of all levels.

Steven Heller is cochair and cofounder of the School of Visual Arts MFA Design / Designer as Author + Entrepreneur Program. The author or editor of more than 170 books on design, culture, and satiric art, he writes the Daily Heller (www.printmag.com/daily-heller) for Print magazine and contributes to Design Observer, Eye, Wired, and the Atlantic. He is the recipient of the AIGA Medal for Lifetime Achievement and the Smithsonian National Design Award for “Design Mind.”