Type as Image
SPRING 2026
Professor Mary Banas
SMFA at Tufts
Email: When contacting me, use both my Tufts email and
my Gmail
Office Hours: Fridays from 12–1pm, on zoom, or by appointment
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04 How We Work
05 Studio Culture
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Readings
Most of the readings live here:
https://www.are.na/mary-banas/type-as-image-readings
The Politics of Design: A (Not So) Global Manual for Visual Communication (PDF)
Reading this whole book is great! Here is the recommended reading for the “STUDIO EXPERIMENTS: IMAGE” work:
Pages 66-76 in the PDF (it is set up as spreads, that’s why)
Page numbers in the book are 129-149
Chapter “SYMBOLS AND ICONS”
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