Student Work: Graphic Design

Samples are from courses in graphic design/visual communication design and typography taught at the University of Wisconsin–Stout and Ohio State University.

Melanie Graves (graduate student); piece featured in Art on Hennepin Avenue, featured in Mastering Type, 2nd edition (Bloomsbury Publishing)

Project: Book Jacket Design
University of Wisconsin–Stout
This advanced project requires students to produce a dust jacket for a public domain book of their choice, visualizing elements from the book's narrative.

Mackenzie Pfund

Shania Sinna

Lucas Langley

Project: Typographic terminology exercise
From Type 1: Letterform | University of Wisconsin–Stout

Project: Letterform sequential narrative composition
From Type 1: Letterform | University of Wisconsin–Stout

Project: Form/counterform exercise
University of Wisconsin–Stout | Ohio State University
This project consists of a series of prompts for creating visual combinations of glyphs in black and white, using specific serif and sans-serif type.

Project: Expressive Type exercise
University of Wisconsin–Stout | Ohio State University
This project requires students to explore ways to illustrate and express the meaning of words and word pairs using only the forms and shapes of various assigned typefaces as available design elements.

Project: Personal Monogram exercise
University of Wisconsin–Stout
From Type 1: Letterform, the project requires students to construct a personal monogram representing some aspect of themselves.

Project: Hometown Wordmark
University of Wisconsin–Stout
From Type 1: Letterform, the project requires students to construct a wordmark for their hometown, with one required "visual element" designed congruously with the wordmark. Students were limited to a maximum of 3 colors.