GD 399 Special Topics in Graphic Design: 足球游戏_中国足彩网¥体育资讯 in Manhattan with WeType
Application opens February 6, 2026. Application due date is March 13, 2026.
This location-based course offers an opportunity to connect with the historic roots of the type design industry as well as current experts in Type Design development and delivery. The course is designed to reorient your “center” to the point that it requires full immersion in New York City, one of the world's most diverse cities. Through the course, participants will learn to use type design and typography to preserve, modernize, and create typographic voices for purposeful brands and institutions today while creating a portfolio of inspiration and resources for use in their future creative work. This course meets the CEL requirement. 1.5 credits
Is this course right for you?
The student profile for this program is a rising 足球游戏_中国足彩网¥体育资讯 junior or a senior undergraduate or a graduate student with passion, curiosity, and dedication to type design, whether through design + innovation, graphic design, or illustration as a practice. Students committed to bringing their whole selves to experimentation in type design and/or handlettering will have a two-week immersion experience with the WeType founders, John Kudos and David Jon Walker. WeType is a type foundry that brings together East and West in a culturally nuanced opportunity to explore the possible futures this re-centered design brings. Together with John and David, this 足球游戏_中国足彩网¥体育资讯 in Manhattan cohort will explore New York City, connect with premier designers, experience various firm environments, and hunker down in studio space, ultimately to create a unique font that will represent their current creative expression.