Core Studio: Typography

Level: Undergraduate

Division: Parsons The New School for Design

School: School of Art, Media and Technology

Department: Communication Design

Course Number: PUCD 2025

Course Format: Seminar

Location: NYC campus

Permission Required: No

Topics:

• Typography
• Graphic Design
• Design

Description:
Typography is at once a skill, a practice, and a subject of inquiry. As a skill, every communication design student must master it, regardless of his or her medium. As a practice, typography provides a space to play and experiment with scale, form, composition, proportion, and communication. The study of typography reaches the core of graphic communication, from the difference between two letters to investigating whether or not the form of a text works in concert with its content to create a third meaning. Through lectures, drawing, and research, this class will immerse students in the language of symbols and lead them towards effective mastery of the persuasive power of visual communication.

Course Pre/Co-requisites:
Open to: Bachelors degree in Communication Design and Design & Technology majors, sophomores only; others by permission of Communication Design program. Co-requisite: PUCD 2026 Core Lab: Typography.

Restrictions:

Level

Open to Undergraduate students.

Major

Open to Communication Design students.

Open to Design and Technology students.

Open to Foundation students.

Open to Integrated Design Curriculum students.