TDS-365: TDS: Type + Authorship

On day one students conjure, discuss, and immediately write their way into a book of collective thematic interest. Every week they write their way deeper into a specific project and fine tune it through the course of the first month. Then the drawing begins. The class functions as a multi-disciplinary studio environment to draw, photograph, illustrate, and graphically impregnate a ripe topic (like hair, animals, the encyclopedia). It's about moving quickly. No running in place. It's about speed and follow-through, dedication to an idea. Writing in class, writing at home,rewriting, editing, analyzing. Developing new collaborative skills and trust, finding a stronger textual and image voice. The class offers connections between design and literature by shaping new associations of word and image through the intersection of writing and its translation into print. We spend the term emphasizing iterative designing and image-making around original content. Weeks 9-11 are spent in an in-class editorial workshop environment where students operate both independently and by sharing workloads and responsibilities to produce a literary arts publication. Students are given job titles such as editor, art director and image editor to stress the importance of leadership within a collaboration. Weeks 12-14 are spent in production and working with a printer. Students write, design, art a 90-100 page publication / refining typographic skills to express hierarchies between titling, running texts, marginal texts / hone image-making and image editing skills / production skills / working with a budget and deadline.