TYPE AS IMAGE: SP 25
Prof. Mary Banas
School of the Museum of Fine Arts at
Tufts University


When contacting me, use my tufts email and copy my personal email for best results:
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Syllabus
01 Description
02 Learning Outcomes
03 Assignments
04 How We Work
05 Studio Culture
Tufts University Policies

CalendarBriefs
01 Weekly Images02 Alphabet Book
03 Studio Experiments
04 Poster
05 Sequence
Readings

Tutorials (including how to print!)

Review Boards: Advice
Drive
Index

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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