JOB: Summer Instructor Wanted / City College, topic is History of Graphic Design

This course covers a chronological history of graphic design beginning with the Victorian Era in England and America, from the Industrial Revolution to the advent of digital design in the 1980s. Included is an overview of the innovations and developments in the United States and Europe in major areas of graphic design, such as advertising, publication design, corporate, packaging, and animation, as well as the contributions made by outstanding designers. Developing visual literacy through reading, written assignments and slide lecture, along with understanding how technology, social and political climates, individuals and trends inform and transform design concepts is central to this course.

Learning Outcomes: 

• This course will provide students with a solid understanding of graphic design history as it has informed and shaped contemporary design practices.

• The course further aids the student in recognizing the standards that go to creating ‘good’ design as established by the various movements and schools throughout this history—the same practices and standards that are concurrently being taught in the EDM and STUDIO ART areas of study. 

• Students arrive at ‘visual literacy’—the knowledge, along with a descriptive vocabulary of design—that will afford them the ability to astutely discuss and write about a graphic work, not least their own work, in the school setting, for an audience of their peers, or in the workplace.

Applicants can contact Professor Weintraub by email. Include a CV and proposed course outline.

Professor Annette Weintraub