June 28, 2015
An interview with Louise Sandhaus, designer, design educator and author of Earthquakes, Mudslides, Fires & Riots: California and Graphic Design, 1936-1986, one of the absolute best books about graphic design lately.
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June 25, 2015
This past May, VCFA faculty member Tasheka Arceneaux-Sutton finished designing the third volume of Krewe magazine, which includes articles written by students from a journalism class at Tulane University and high school students from Sci High. All articles are about New Orleans, with a range of topics from female DJs, to gentrification, to kids maintaining a farm to the history of Voodoo. Krewe comes out at the end of every spring and fall semester.
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June 23, 2015
The 11th installment of VFCA’s interview series with Creative Director, Film Director and Type Designer Jens Gehlhaar!
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June 22, 2015
A look at the messy, yet detailed process of VCFA MFA in Graphic Design student Campbell McKeogh’s imagemaking process!
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June 21, 2015
Chair Ian Lynam’s multidisciplinary design studio has just launched a new project for Adobe’s Typekit webfont service.
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June 20, 2015
An interview with design critic and essayist Randy Nakamura about the state of graphic design today, design theory having hit a brick wall and, of course, feral cats.
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June 20, 2015
VCFA alumnus Aaron Winters and MFA candidate Michael Scaringe will be participating in Otis College of Art and Design MFA Graphic Design Program’s 5th annual Design Week from June 21-27, 2015. They will be giving a public presentation on June 21, highlighting their experiences at VCFA in the MFA in Graphic Design Program.
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June 18, 2015
One of the things that really makes VCFA’s low residency program so exciting are the amazing individuals and teams that we have invited to the school to participate in our April and October residencies. As VCFA’s MFA in Graphic Design program has turned five years old, we thought we’d share with you a a roll call of the amazing creatives we’ve had visit the program and participate in lectures, workshops, critiques, guest teaching, and other activities. Check out who has joined us in lovely Montpelier, Vermont previously!
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June 14, 2015
An interview with writer, critic, lecturer and curator Rick Poynor, founder of Eye Magazine and co-founder of Design Observer. Within, they chat about where design writing, photography, and speculative futures.
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June 13, 2015
A video interview with VCFA faculty Bethany Koby about the relationship between young people and technology! Check it out!
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June 12, 2015
An interview with Taro Yumiba, one of the team that runs TypeCache — an online index for type foundries and font sellers, and showcases their collections of type.
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June 10, 2015
VCFA MFA in Graphic Design Chair Ian Lynam recently chatted with Mitch Goldstein and Joshua Namdev Hardisty of the graphic design podcast Through Process. Interview subjects on Through Process have included amazing design educators like CCA’s Martin Venezky, Cranbrook’s Elliott Earls, Yale’s Michael Rock and VCFA’s own Silas Munro and Jason Alejandro. That these two guys make the time to make a podcast about their field of work is amazing, especially considering that they both have teaching careers on top of their own design studios.
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June 9, 2015
Ian Lynam has just published a new essay about the album cover design of legendary Japanese graphic designer Yokoo Tadanori.
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June 8, 2015
Q: What do the Sopranos, The Watchmen, Where The Wild Things Are, and a ton of other pop culture stuff have in common?
A: A micro-interview with movie poster/type/a lot of other stuff designer Corey Holms about design, aesthetics, and protein.
