Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Much Left to Learn

By Steven Heller

Part 1    Designing Design Knowledge

A Design Core for the Twenty-First Century

By Andrea Marks

Interdisciplinarity and the Education of the Design Generalist

By Meredith Davis

Liberal Arts Is Old News

By Frank Baseman

Design and Knowledge in the University and the “Real World”

By Gunnar Swanson

Liberal Arts and Graphic Design: Six Cautionary Questions

By Gunnar Swanson

Anxious about The Future?

By Ken Garland

Shifting the Pedagogical Paradigm

By Leslie Becker

Design in the Pragmatic Future

By Liz Danzico

Algorithmic Thinking for Beginners

By Véronique Vienne

Design Studies for a New Doctorate

By Victor Margolin

Part 2    Coming of Age

Legacy of a 1960s Credo

By Kenneth Hiebert

Who Are We Now and What Do We Believe In?

By Elizabeth Resnick

Graphic Design Family Values

By Paul J. Nini

School Days

By Rob Giampietro

Thoughts on the Attraction of Teaching

By Chris Pullman

Teaching with Reading Glasses On

Steven Brower

Self-Taught Teacher

By Marian Bantjes

Improvisation in Design Teaching

By Roy R. Behrens

Making Connections

By Scott Santoro

The Last Slide Show

By Alice Twemlow

What Is “Professional” about Professional Education?

By Meredith Davis

Part 3    Teaching and Learning

From Form to Context: Teaching a Different Type of Design History

By Prasad Boradkar

How We Teach, How We Learn What Is Taught

By Hank Richardson

History with Attitude: A Subjective Tour of Studies in American Graphic Design Education

By Ellen Mazur Thomson

Tear It Down

By Virginia Smith

Principles Before Style: Questions in Design History

By Richard Hollis

Voices from the Past: Bringing Graphic Design History to Life

By Kerri Steinberg

Part 4    Theory and Practice

Visual Rhetoric: What We Mean When We Talk About Form

By Leslie Atzmon

Graphic Design & Critical Thinking

By Rob Giampietro

Putting Criticism into Critique

By Nancy Mayer

Remaking Theory, Rethinking Practice

By Andrew Blauvelt

Talking Theory /Teaching Practice

By Johanna Drucker

Writing Now: Journalism, Criticism, Critical Journalism

By Rick Poynor

Part 5    Stasis and Change

Circling the Desert: The Illusion of Progress

By William Longhauser

Some Things Change . . .

By Chris Pullman

What This Country Needs Is a Good Five-Year Design Program

By Steven Heller

What’s Right with Design Education and Wrong with the “Real World”?

By Susan Agre-Kippenhan and Mike Kippenhan

Experience versus Education

By Jeffrey Keedy

Old for New

By Chuck Byrne

Part 6    Special Ed

How Today’s Prototyping Tools Enable a Holistic Design Approach

By Carla Diana

Traversing Edge and Center: A Spatial Approach to Design Research

By Katie Salen

Design Interactive Education

By Max Bruinsma

Computers Don’t Speak, Type Does

By Michael Worthington

Part 7    Designing Disciplines

Graphic Authorship

By Michael Rock

Starting from Zero: Teaching Writing to Designers

By Warren Lehrer

The Designer as Producer

By Ellen Lupton

Part 8    What to Teach

Graphic Design Curricula: Visualizing Design Processes and Skills

By Thomas Brigggs

Visual Literacy: The College Course

By Richard and Judith Wilde

A Collage Education

By Thomas Wedell and Nancy Skolos

Arabic Type Is My Type: A Question of Arabic Typography Education

By Lama Ajeenah

How Can One (Re)make Swiss Typography?

By Chris Pullman

Dimensional Typography: The Unbearable Flatness of Being

By Leslie Atzmon

Logo Time

By Sagi Haviv

Memory, Instinct, and Design: Beyond Paul Rand’s “Play Principle”

By Michael Golec

Rediscovering Rand: Turning a Personal Project into Something More

By Danny Lewandowski

Learning through a Collaborative Project: A Case Study in Visual Communication

By Heather Corcoran

Part 9    Questions and Answers

In Praise of Doubt

By Mark Kingsley

Is Learning Stealing?

By Robert Appleton

What Can Students Learn from Studying Misinformation?

By Colin Berry

Part 10  Merging Cultures

Have Sign, Will Travel: Cultural Issues in Design Education

By Ellen McMahon and Karen White

Searching for a Black Aesthetic in American Graphic Design Education

By Audrey Bennett

Tailoring Designs for Your Audience in a Multicultural Era

By Katherine McCoy

Migratory Patterns of Design Students and the Curse of Student Debt

By Steven Heller

Contributors

Index