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VCFA meetup at TYPO SF

VCFA at TYPO SF!

April 3, 2015

Join VCFA Co-chair Silas Munro, Director of Recruitment Ann Cardinal, Visual Arts Faculty Sabrina Fadial, and super-student Mike Scaringe at TYPO SF: Focus—the San Francisco edition of the series of amazing global typography conferences in 2015! The conference has an amazing line-up of speakers including VCFA Visiting Critic Ellen Lupton, Jen Bilik of KnockKnock, Nadine Chahine, Tobias Frere-Jones, Chip Kidd, Fontlab‘s Thomas Phinney, Louise Sandhaus (who published the essential book about Californian Graphic Design recently), Mark Simonson, Sumner Stone, Kali Nikitas, Erik Spiekermann, and many others! TYPO SF is a veritable wellspring of typographic excitement, and (*cough*) VCFA is happy to be a top-tier supporter of this event!

Conferences are cool and all, but what about getting your meet-and-greet on??? VCFA is hosting a meet-up on Wednesday, April 29th from 6–8pm at the awesome Fly Trap on Folsom! Just 2 blocks from the Yerba Buena Center, we’ll have appetizers, drinks and a large table to seat 20 to 40 folks. Join us!!!latest jordan Sneakers | Air Jordan

The Master of Fine Arts in Graphic Design is one of the nation’s first low-residency programs in graphic design that is built around a student’s individual interests and goals.

The MFA in Graphic Design is an immersive two-year graduate program that synthesizes five intense, one-week residencies with four six-month semesters of independent study with a range of faculty mentors. We educate students towards the broader context of design in order to investigate and reveal relationships. We see Graphic Design as a social tool and design education as a process of social transformation.

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Our innovative, highly effective pedagogical model has its roots in the progressive educational philosophies of John Dewey. Our student-centered approach allows students to develop individualized study plans, addressing design issues that support their particular interests, values, and goals.

MFA students in our Graphic Design program will develop skills in form, content and craft, deepen and expand critical ability, build fluency in contemporary design discourse, and expand their ability to drive content with their work.

Graduates emerge with new research methods, critical acumen, and a body of design work that is personal and relevant; one which enhances their professional and academic path. They will have learned to continuously rethink design by considering cultural context, relationships between designers and their work, and the nature of education within design.

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