Study Away is a great option to add value to your MICA experience. Take a short term credit-bearing course outside of Baltimore to experience MICA and its specialized art and design education on site in a new location, taught by MICA faculty and visiting artists and designers.
Study Away
STUDY with MICA & WeType THIS SUMMER IN CHELSEA, NYC.
GD 399 Special Topics in Graphic Design: MICA in Manhattan with WeType
This location based course offers an opportunity to connect with the historic roots of the type design industry as well as current experts in Type Design development and delivery. The course is designed to reorient your “center” to the point that it requires full immersion in New York City, one of the world's most diverse cities. Through the course, participants will learn to use type design and typography to preserve, modernize, and create typographic voices for purposeful brands and institutions today while creating a portfolio of inspiration and resources for use in their future creative work. This course meets the CEL requirement. 1.5 credits
Is this course right for you?
The student profile for this program is a rising MICA junior or a senior undergraduate or a graduate student with passion, curiosity, and dedication to type design, whether through design + innovation, graphic design, or illustration as a practice. Students committed to bringing their whole selves to experimentation in type design and/or handlettering will have a two week immersion experience with the WeType founders, John Kudos and David Jon Walker. WeType is a type foundry that brings together East and West in a culturally nuanced opportunity to explore the possible futures this re-centered design brings. Together with John and David, this MICA in Manhattan cohort will explore New York City, connect with premier designers, experience various firm environments, and hunker down in studio space ultimately to create a unique font that will represent their current creative expression.