Writing as Visual Practice

Graduate / Professional

This semester-long course supports first-year MFA graphic design students in developing an interconnected relationship between writing, research and practice. Through a combination of independent inquiry, writing prompts, group exercises, readings, guest lectures, workshops and acts of distribution, ‘Writing as Visual Practice’ approaches writing as a fundamental part of a practice. The course offers a space to actively consider the form of writing and to interrogate its role within a wider design practice, oscillating between the interiority of one’s own work or position, and the exteriority of external audiences and sources. In doing so, the course seeks to set the groundwork for independent thesis writing that follows in the second year of the program, and for an ongoing interrogation of broader modes and possibilities of writing, publishing, editorial and design practices at large. 3 Course cr Th 1:30pm-4:30pm