Two-dimensional design foundation courses guide students to work with abstraction and non-representational imagery. The Alphabet City exercise pushes them beyond typefaces on screen to notice engaging forms in everyday surroundings while reinforcing standard workflows in Adobe CC applications.

Students redesign the cover of a book from a genre that interests them. This could be a book they’ve read or one they plan to read in the future.

Students select one design visionary from a supplied list and develop an informational booklet. The printed “highlight reel” they produce analyzes their chosen designer’s thinking and aesthetic, and translates their creative sensibility into clear visual and typographic communication.