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Not Your Typical Graphic Design History: Part 2
June 2, 2015 @ 6:30 pm - June 30, 2015 @ 8:30 pm
5 Tuesday evenings 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
This is not meant to be a typical survey history of design course. Dive deeper into design history by handling real ephemera and learning the context and the stories behind the work. Think of this as a rare chance to see and touch all those famous pieces of design you once saw in books or online. All of the materials will come from the vast collection of design ephemera at the Herb Lubalin Study Center.
The course will consist of five consecutive Tuesday evening classes, each lasting two hours. The topics covered will be: The Forgotten History of Pharmaceutical Design; The Changing Role of the Book Jacket; Type Specimen and Typesetting; American vs. European Design; The “NY School” of Design.
Alexander Tochilovsky received his BFA from the Cooper Union and his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He is the owner/operator, together with Mike Essl, of The Studio of ME/AT, a graphic design studio in New York City, focusing on print design. He is also an adjunct instructor at the Cooper Union, and the Curator of the Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography. In 2009 he co-curated the exhibition Lubalin Now , and since 2010 he has curated three other exhibitions: Appetite (2010), Pharma (2011) & Type@Cooper (2012), all at the Cooper Union. Alexander teaches the history and theory component of typeface design at Type@Cooper, the postgraduate certificate program he co-founded in 2010.