Teaching Graphic Design by Steven Heller

Teaching Graphic Design

Course Offerings and Class Projects From the Leading Graduate and Undergraduate Programs

Steven Heller

Allworth · Print & ebook · September 26, 2017

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.

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Who it’s for
Course syllabi span undergraduate years through graduate options, across established and emerging design disciplines.
Themes
Graphic design education, Teaching methods and course syllabi, Contemporary graphic design disciplines
Genres
Arts & Humanities Teaching, Graphic Design, Art Teaching & Study

About this book

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.

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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.

Graphic Design Syllabi

Course syllabi span undergraduate years through graduate options, across established and emerging design disciplines.

Come here for

  • Syllabi addressing product design
  • Course options from first-year undergraduate through graduate study

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  • Topics include strategic design
  • Classic disciplines include image, type, and layout

Where it sits

Arts & Humanities Teaching35%
Graphic Design28%
Art Teaching & Study24%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Design Writing
  • Advertising Design
  • Branding & Logo Design
  • Commercial Graphic Design
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  • Typography
  • Design History
  • Industrial Design
  • Arts & Humanities Teaching
Authors
Steven Heller
Publisher
Allworth
Published
September 26, 2017
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Graphic design education · Teaching methods and course syllabi · Contemporary graphic design disciplines
Reading lane
Design Writing