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Prof. Mary Banas
School of the Museum of Fine Arts at
Tufts University

Tu 8:30AM–2:00PM
230 Fenway: B211A

When contacting me, copy my personal email for best results:
mbanas01(at)tufts.edu
mary.banas(at)gmail.com

Office Hours: 
Fridays from 12–1pm, on zoom
203.641.5386

How to make an appointment:
https://calendly.com/mary-banas/office-hours
please book this by 9am on Fridays, email me to give me a heads up that you have booked it.

Graphic Arts Area Instagram
Permissions doc for GRA IG is here  Syllabus
01 Description
02 Learning Outcomes
03 Assignments
04 How We Work
05 Studio Culture

Tufts University Policies
CalendarBriefs01 Alphabet Book
02 Studio Experiments
03 Poster
04 Sequence Readings

Tutorials (including how to print!)

Resources

Review Boards: Advice

Talks Drive
Index

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03

Poster–week 1
October 1


• TARC
• PGDA
• Stuff We’re Not Talking About exercise
• Kick-off poster brief

Poster–week 2
October 8


• Poster slides
• Review mood boards, discuss ideas in small groups
• Look at references, build your file, make sketches
• Prep for next week! We need a cover for our book...

RISO week!
October 15


We are printing RISO all class — please bring your pages as a PDF in Drive as well as printed out on 11x17”

Meet in the RISO room

Connect/email Louis in advance for training (you can get in the room with us, but need access to use it the rest of the semester, and need to be trained by Louis for access)

💥 RISO Handout by Vin


Poster–week 4
October 22


• Book party; make books
• Social media permissions
• Review sketches
• Learn how to tile
• Review student slides for inspo
• Tech Q+A demos

Poster–week 5
October 29


• Distribute books to library + gallery, sleeves
•  Review courses for next semester
• Visit printshop, touch papers?
• Tiled poster crit
• Intro sequence project

November 5 — no class (vote!)



November 12 — no class Veteran’s Day is Nov. 11 (sub Monday’s schedule)



November  19


• Poster is finished
• Send poster files to printshop
• Review Sequence proposals and paper prototypes

Poster–final week
November  26


Nov. 26 = final poster crit <3 Your studio experiments will inform a speculative topic-based poster or series of posters. This is the largest project of the semester. This project will explore typographic and formal hierarchy as well as making meaning.

This is a 5-working weeks project over 6 total weeks
We will be printing on the  RISO on Oct. 15th, all day. Make sure you get trained to use the room before that date, email Louis to make an appointment: louis.meola@tufts.edu

With this project we will explore:
—grids
—typographic hierarchy
—call to action
—speculative content
—making meaning
—composition
—dynamic tension
—iterative processes to design
—analog and digital processes
—mood boards
—making reference
—print production
—bleeds + crops
—tiling
© Mary Banas,  Fall 2024School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts Universitysmfa.tufts.edu