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

Tu 8:30AM–2:00PM
230 Fenway: Room B211A

When contacting me, copy both emails 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

Calendar

Briefs01 Alphabet Book
02 Studio Experiments
03 Poster
04 Sequence

Readings

Tutorials (including how to print!)

Resources

Review Boards: Advice

Talks

Google Drive

Index

Type as Image

Readings (and other cool stuff)

Feb. 11, 2025

Archives: “Black History is Design History”

Write a little about why you chose the object to add to the archive “For Black History Month I chose to add this object to the archive because_____”

Title
Author
Year
Format (what is it?)

Include the source link and a little bit of copy from the website where you found it

For tags — including more is better

Questions for discussion:
—Why does source matter?
—Who gets to be in archives?
—How can dominate narratives shape society?
—What is an example of a dominant narrative, something you maybe learned growing up that turned out to not be true later?
—What is something you have found to be important that you emotinoally really connect to, why? Can you imagine that thing in a library or archive? Why or why not?
—Why does a flat, crowd-sourced model of visual culture matter? How can it help remedy problems of access and representation?
—Reality is complex—simplicity and reduction are convenient but can sometimes result in erasure of certain stories—can you think of an exmple of this from history, culture or your personal experience?

Smithsonian American Museum of African American History
Stanford
AIGA
Black Experience in Design
Print Magazine
Adobe
As Not For by Jerome Harris

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”

Recommended blogs / websites:

The Creative Independent
https://thecreativeindependent.com

It’s Nice That
https://www.itsnicethat.com

AIGA Eye on Design (not posting new articles, but has an archive)
https://eyeondesign.aiga.org

Design Observer
https://designobserver.com

Podcasts:

99% Invisible

The Design of Business | The Business of Design

Design Matters with Debbie Millman

Scratching the Surface with Jarrett Fuller

PLACES IN BOSTON

https://ksmallgallery.com/

School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University

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