How and why have businesses developed common structures such as departments of production, marketing, finance, and human resources? How do the various functions and departments of a company interact and support each other to attain the goals of the company?…Continue Reading Basic Business Structure
This practical course provides students with basic communication and presentation skills specifically targeted to the business environment. Forms that are explored include on-line and traditional research techniques, professional writing, marketing, and presentations. Students will learn the essentials of accurate, clear, and effective communication……Continue Reading Business & Professional Communication
In this critical studio course, we will investigate the significance of everyday objects through reading, writing and making visual works. In this way, we will examine the multiple and sometimes conflicting meanings hidden in objects and how the ways we collect, select, and curate our “stuff” is a reflection of selves, cultures, and the times we live in……Continue Reading Critical Studio: Everyday Objects
In this course a range of visual narrative techniques will be introduced that can be used to communicate through the educated use of typography, illustration, photographs, sound, and video. Solid research, strategy, and ideas are amplified by great design! Through foundational graphic design methodologies, students will learn to articulate concepts and communicate their ideas……Continue Reading Design for Presentations
This course brings together hands-on studio projects and seminars to provide an overview of design management; the industry’s scope, research methods and strategy, design process, and implementation. It introduces students to the intersecting domains of design, marketing, management, and social sciences…….Continue Reading Design, Strategy, and Industry
This course offers an opportunity for deepened exploration of the practices and tools of digital layout. Students work across multiple software applications to create projects that communicate their content and point of view through a variety of forms both digital and in print….Continue Reading Digital Tools for Layout and Design
In this course students will learn how to use the basic elements of design – line, shape, value and color on a variety of surfaces as communication tools to explain complex systems. The design activities will explore how to focus the contents of the message on an audience through a variety of forms. This would include service images, icons, mind maps, mood boards……Continue Reading Dynamic Drawing
This elective will expose students to a variety of design studios that focus on self-sufficient, in-house batch manufacturing and their models of self-production. Students will take on the design, development and limited production of a very simple, low-cost but provocative product that could be manufactured in an in-house studio setting. Topics covered will include market research, issues of efficiency in product, and basic issues of intellectual property….Continue Reading Entrepreneurial Making
Typography is an essential part of our everyday lives: in print, on screen, and in the built environment. This class explores the function and meaning of typography through an introduction to its history, theory, and practice in art and design contexts, including but not limited to graphic design, product design, illustration, architecture, and fine arts. Through short, conceptual exercises in collection, interpretation, type making……Continue Reading Explorations in Typography
While graduation may seem far away, it is never too early to begin developing your professional goals, skills, and materials. This course will prepare you to do so while demystifying the process of applying to internships, job positions, and award opportunities. You will simulate the search and application process by identifying a real-life opportunity as a model……Continue Reading Goal Setting and Professional Skills
In this course students are introduced to the variety of building and manufacturing industries in and around the city through behind-the-scene tours. Students are exposed to a range of volumes of production including one-off, custom, artisanal craft, batch, and mass production. The physical scale of production is explored as well, from small parts up to the creation of architecture and urban infrastructure…….Continue Reading Make it in NYC
“Utopia is a world I made up by combining utopia and dystopia – the imagined perfect society and its opposite – because, in my view, each contains a latent version of the other.”-Margaret Atwood. In this class, we will interrogate the implications of design and technology on society through the reading and watching of science fiction. As we dabble in these emblematic science fiction universes……Continue Reading Science Fiction, Utopia & Speculative Design