Lita Talarico

Make a Chair: Portfolio Center, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Class: Modernism: History, Criticism and Theory Level: Third to Seventh Quarter Faculty: Hank Richardson Duration of Project: Nine Weeks Project Brief "The primary focus of a chair is you can sit in it, while its secondary function is to embody a set of aesthetics or values, or to communicate a message or opinion.

Topic: Profiles

Deborah Buck: Buck House

Deborah Buck, proprietor of Buck House in New York, is an artist and designer.

Topic: Profiles

Constantin Boym: Souvenirs at the End of the Century

Constantin Boym was born in Moscow, studied design in Italy, and in 1986, founded Boym Partners Inc.

Topic: Profiles

The Urban Studio: Anatomy of a Successful Project

James Victore, Advertising and Design, School of Visual Arts, New York, New York, USA Briefly describe your class project.

Topic: Profiles

Major Design Project: University of Wollongong, Faculty of Creative Arts, School of Art and Design

Class: Advanced Design Project Level: Third Year Faculty: Grant Ellmers Duration of Project: One Semester Project Brief This subject is likely to be your final undergraduate design studio and represents the opportunity to develop a design project that encapsulates the best of your graphic design knowledge and abilities.

Topic: Profiles

Color y Carnaval: University of Bogot�¡ Jorge Tadeo Lozano

Class: Basic Design Level: First year Faculty: Diego Giovanni Bermúdez Aguirre Duration of Project: Six Weeks Project Brief This project is based on an analytical reading of the Carnival of the city of Barranquilla (a Cultural Patrimony of Humanity, according to UNESCO) from the point of view of its overall design and its fundamental components.

Topic: Profiles

Jesse Willmon: commix (www.com-mix.org)

Purpose: Commix is an online tool for creating your own comics.

Topic: Profiles

The One: Hongik University, Department of Visual Communication Design

Class: Design Management Level: Senior Faculty: Don Ryun Chang Duration of Project: One Semester Project Brief The design management class at Hongik University is composed of sixty senior students who were asked to form ten teams of six members and create separate design business models based on emerging business, lifestyles, and cultural trends within the local society.

Topic: Profiles

Undaunted Courage: School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Class: Advanced Typography Faculty: Don Pollack Level: Senior or Graduate Duration of Project: One Semester Project Brief Assuming the role of curator, the student will assemble (and create) a series of historic artifacts.

Topic: Type

Jeffrey Everett: el jefe design (www.eljefedesign.com)

Purpose: I believe that the T-shirt is the best way to express one's individuality and that if I can convince one person to buy a shirt I have done something right.

Topic: Profiles

New Identity for the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna: Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna

Class: Graphic Design and Computer Graphics Level: Second Year Faculty: Maurizio Osti and Danilo Danisi Duration of Project: Two Semesters Project Brief Students are charged with developing a new identity system for the academy to reflect changes in the organizational structure and enhanced communication courses initiated in 2004, according to the reforms proposed by the Italian Ministry of Education.

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Medical Information Design: University IUAV of Venice / Department of Art and Industrial Design

Class: Master in Medical Design/Information Design Level: Masters Faculty: Medardo Chiapponi Duration of Project: One Semester plus Thesis Project Brief This project is connected to the activities of a research unit in medical design, located inside the Venice hospital.

Topics: Interactive Design, Professional Development, Random

Irina Lee, School of Visual Arts, New York, New York, USA: Anatomy of a Successful Project

What was your most interesting class project? Street Signs for an Urban Design class.

Topics: Design Reference, Professional Development, Random

Human Rights, Human Wrongs: Massachusetts College of Art and Design

Class: Poster Design Level: Junior and Senior Elective Faculty: Chaz Maviyane-Davies Duration of Project: Two Weeks Project Brief The world is in precarious shape and what we manage to do to each other, even worse.

Topics: Design Reference, Layouts, Managing Design, Professional Development

Reading the Urban Landscape: University of Hawaii at Manoa, Graphic Design Program

Class: Typography III Level: Fourth Year Faculty: Anne Bush Duration of Project: Sixteen weeks Project Brief Senior students are assigned sites to research in the Honolulu area.

Topics: Branding Identity, Environmental Design, Interactive Design, Layouts, Professional Development

Rick Landers: Wink: Work at Play

Purpose: Wink is a line of office and desktop products intended to bring a little light-hearted joy into the office/work environment, reminding its viewer that life should not be "all work and no play.

Topics: Branding Identity, Pattern & Palette, Product Design, Professional Development

Maira Kalman: Various

Maira Kalman is an illustrator, author, and designer whose artwork is featured in a new edition of Strunk and White's The Elements of Style.

Topics: Branding Identity, Fashion, Product Design, Professional Development, Profiles

Carlos Segura: T26, Digital Type Foundry

Carlos Segura is the founder of T26 Digital Type Foundry.

Topics: Interactive Design, Professional Development, Profiles, Studio Secrets, Type

Type as Metaphor: State University of New York, Purchase College, School of Art and Design

Class: Advanced Typography Level: Junior Faculty: Warren Lehrer and Robin Lynch Duration of Project: Four Weeks Project Brief Each student is asked to research a subject of their choosing.

Topics: Design Reference, Professional Development, Studio Secrets, Type

Sam Potts: Brooklyn Superhero Supply Co.

Sam Potts runs a generalist graphic design practice in New York City.

Topics: Branding Identity, Managing Design, Packaging, Product Design, Profiles

Amanda Spielman: Bookfool

Purpose: Bookfool is an online resource for fiction recommendations that matches people to books based on factors such as mood, personal circumstances, and geographical locations of interest.

Topics: Branding Identity, Interactive Design, Profiles

The Formal Language of a Display Typeface: Iceland Academy of the Arts

Class: Forms and Ideas 1 Level: Third (Final) Year Faculty: Goddur Duration of Project: Eight Weeks Project Brief Design a new display typeface based on an existing typeface.

Topics: Design Reference, Professional Development, Random, Type

Development of Type Families for Magazines: Senac University Center, Santo Amaro Campus, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Class: Project: Design & Visual Communication Level: Second Semester Faculty: Priscila Lena Farias with Delfim Cesário Jr.

Topics: Branding Identity, Design Reference, Professional Development, Type

Collage Poster Workshop: Rhode Island School of Design

Class: Poster Design Level: Junior, Senior, and Graduate Elective Faculty: Nancy Skolos Duration of Project: Three Weeks Project Brief The creative act of collage can provide endless inspiration for graphic design students.

Topics: Professional Development, Random, Type

Breaking the Rules in Interactive Media Design: Yildiz Technical University, Department of Communication Design

Class: Multimedia Design Studio 3 Level: Fourth Year Faculty: Oguzhan Ozcan and Asim Evren Yantac Duration of Project: One Semester Project Brief In this advance design practice class, the students study how to break the rules in interaction design that they learned in their second-year course "Basics in Interaction Design.

Topics: Interactive Design, Professional Development, Random

My First Political Poster Design: Chile, the Other September 11th: Maryse Eloy School of Art/University of Art and Design Helsinki

Class: Visual Communication: Semiology Level: Third Year Faculty: François Caspar Duration of Project: Four Weeks Class: International Workshop Level: Fifth Year Faculty: François Caspar Duration of Project: One Week Project Brief Students should research and collect images that represent and memorialize the events of September 11, 2001, from the point of view both of Chile and New York City.

Topics: Design Reference, Layouts, Professional Development, Random

Beatrice Warde and You: School of Visual Arts New York, USA

Class: Designing with Type Level: Junior Faculty: Paul Sahre Duration of Project: Four Weeks Project Brief Part 1: Read The Crystal Goblet or Printing Should Be Invisible by Beatrice Warde.

Topics: Branding Identity, Packaging, Professional Development, Type

The Transparent Cover: Autonomous Metropolitan University, Azcapotzako Campus

Class: Design of Messages III Level: Second Year Faculty: Felix Beltran Duration of Project: One Month Project Brief Redesign the cover of the popular book El Llano en llamas (The Burning Plain) by Juan Rulfo, one of the most internationally renowned of Mexican writers.

Topics: Layouts, Packaging, Pattern & Palette, Professional Development, Type

Dave Eggers: McSweeney's Publishing

Dave Eggers, founder of McSweeney's Publishing, is a writer and designer.

Topics: Branding Identity, Layouts, Product Design, Professional Development, Profiles

Ways of Seeing (Sequential Image Making): University of Nicosia, Cyprus

Class: Rethinking the Image Level: Second Year Faculty: Andreas Tomblin Duration of Project: Four Weeks Project Brief Students must choose something from the list below and produce a series of final compositions and a three-hundred-word explanation in support of the work.

Topics: Branding Identity, Professional Development, Random

Visual Storytelling and Narrative Form: Anatomy of a Successful Project

Richard Poulin, Advertising and Design, School of Visual Arts, New York, New York, USA Briefly describe your class project.

Topics: Branding Identity, Professional Development, Studio Secrets

Richard Kegler: P22 Type Foundry

Richard Kegler, founder of P22 Type Foundry in Buffalo, New York, is interested in the history of art and design.

Topics: Branding Identity, Professional Development, Profiles, Type

James Victore: Victore Plates

James Victore is a designer who claims his studio is hell-bent on world domination.

Topics: Branding Identity, Product Design, Profiles

Pattern Magazine: University of New South Wales, College of Fine Arts

Class: Advance Typography and Publication Design Level: Third Year Faculty: Ian McArthur Duration of Project: Seven Weeks Project Brief Publications are increasingly published for online access and distribution.

Topics: Layouts, Pattern & Palette, Professional Development, Type

Sierra Krause: Vega

Purpose: Vega is a line of interior lights that fuse functional lighting and art into one object.

Topics: Branding Identity, Color, Product Design, Profiles

Graphic Design with Any Media: Berlin University of the Arts/ University of Applied Arts, Institute of Design

Class: Graphic Design Level: Third Semester Faculty: Fons Hickmann Duration of Project: Spans Several Years Project Brief The projects assigned to the students explore the transgression of design limits in all respects, the critical discussion of up-to-date topics from different perspectives, the calling into question of medial and social conventions, and the development of new visual codes.

Topics: Design Reference, Professional Development, Random

South African Stories: Red and Yellow School of Logic and Magic/ Stellenbosch University

Class: Graphic Design Level: Second Year Faculty: Gabby Raaf Project Brief "South African Stories" was the theme of Orange Juice Design's experimental graphics magazine i-Jusi (issue 24) in late 2007.

Topics: Branding Identity, Layouts, Professional Development

Illustrating a Fiction Spread: Missouri State University, Department of Art and Design

Class: Image Design Level: Junior Faculty: Cedomir Kostovic Duration of Project: Three Weeks Project Brief Your task is to produce an illustration for a short story to be published in a fictional magazine and come up with design solution for a spread.

Topics: Design Reference, Layouts, Professional Development

Dragan Mileusnic & Zeljko Serdarevic: Potscriptum Publishing

Dragan Mileusnic and Zeljko Serdarevic formed a creative partnership in 2003 in Zagreb, Croatia, and together have created award-winning websites, edited and published a bestselling monograph on former Yugoslavia, and designed visual identities, and books.

Topics: Layouts, Profiles, Type