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  • Joshua Trees

    Associate Professor of Communication Design

    Email
    treesj@newschool.edu

    Office Location
    L - 2 West 13th Street

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    Joshua Trees

    Profile

    Joshua Trees is an artist reimagining the art school as a platform for collective inquiry and queer futurity. His research blends creative computing, experimental publishing, and social practice, using open-source tools, digital commons, and temporary networks to cultivate collaborative approaches to authorship, ownership and world-building. His design of Emigre #59 is in the collections of MoMA, SFMOMA, and the Stedelijk Museum. Recent honors include a Google Artists + Machine Intelligence Research Award and a typographer-in-residence appointment at the Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography. He is Associate Professor of Communication Design at Parsons and has held faculty positions at the Royal College of Art, University of the Arts London, Pratt Institute, and ArtCenter.


    Degrees Held

    MFA, New Genres, San Francisco Art Institute


    Portfolio

    Public Foundry

    Books From The Future


    Current Courses

    Core 1: Typography Lecture
    PUCD 2026, Fall 2025

    Core 1: Typography Studio
    PUCD 2025, Fall 2025

    Future Courses

    CD Studio: Typeface Design
    PSAM 3010, Spring 2026

    Core 2: Typography
    PUCD 2130, Spring 2026

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