Your Guide to Spring 2026 Courses 📚
New and returning courses to grow your skills this Spring.
Fundamentos del Diseño de Tipografías Display with Juan Villanueva
Lunes, Feb. 2 – Abr. 20, 2026
Esta es una clase de 10 semanas enfocada en el diseño de tipografías display, donde aprenderás los fundamentos para crear tipografías que hablen por sí mismas. A lo largo del curso, desarrollarás una comprensión profunda de las herramientas y procesos involucrados en la creación de fuentes, mientras exploras y defines tu propia voz dentro del diseño tipográfico.
Ya seas diseñadore gráfico o un diseñadore tipográfico en crecimiento, esta clase te ayudará a mejorar tus habilidades tipográficas, salir de tu zona de confort y subir de nivel antes de un programa de maestría. Nos divertiremos mucho y crearemos nuevas tipografías display.
Crash Course in Revival Type Design with Libbie Bischoff
Tuesdays, Feb. 3 – Mar. 3, 2026
In this condensed 5-week course, you will learn how to create a font based on a historical reference. Each student will begin with an inspiring source of type and will use that as the foundation for your revival project.
Whether you’re a graphic designer, a beginner type designer, or trying it for the very first time, you will learn the ins and outs of the type design process with like-minded comrades. At the end of this course, you will have the skills to continue your type design practice or feel prepared for a longer type design program. You will have enhanced your typographic vocab and gained an intimate understanding of what it takes to be a type designer. Let’s revive type together!
Experimental Letterforms: Lessons from Graffiti Writing, Sign Painting, and Type with Kel Troughton
Tuesdays, Feb. 3 – Mar. 3, 2026
Take your lettering and type design to the next level by exploring sources of inspiration beyond the traditional type and design canon. This workshop invites lettering artists and type designers to dive into diverse lettering disciplines and translate their principles into modern, expressive letterforms.
Each week, we’ll study a different lettering approach through lectures and hands-on drawing exercises, covering showcard writing, sign painting, photo typesetting, graffiti, calligraphy, and traditional type design. Students will start sketches in class and continue refining them as homework, blending personal style with lessons drawn from each discipline to create innovative work that spans tradition and contemporary design.
Type Design Development Workshop with Libbie Bischoff
Wednesdays, Feb. 4 – Apr. 8, 2026
Are you struggling to finish your typeface? Did you recently finish a type design program and are missing the regular feedback sessions? Or perhaps you simply want to develop your typeface in a group of like-minded and motivated classmates? If any of this sounds relatable, this class might be perfect for you!
Type Design Development Workshop is a critique-based course with no lectures and no b.s.! Each student will bring in a project that is in its early or middle stages to work on for the duration of this class. Over the span of 10 weeks, students will have a feedback session every other week with a small group of classmates. In the 2 hour crit sessions, each student will get a chance to present their work and get comments from the instructor. In the weeks between crit sessions, there will be an optional office hour for students to ask questions, solve technical problems, or receive additional feedback.
NOTE: This is an application based-class. Applications submitted by Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 10:59 PM will have priority.
Contemporary Book Design with with Kevin Barrett Kane and Emma Christine Hall
Thursdays, Feb. 5 – Apr. 16, 2026
The coursework will focus on the book as an entire package, providing students with lessons and resources to investigate both professional typesetting and composition as well as cover and mechanical design. The course will also cover the basics of materials, manufacturing, and assembly of books insofar as these processes relate to the work of a professional book designer.
Taught over the period of 10 weeks, the course will feature extensive lectures and demonstrations, as well as in-class exercises and a good deal of homework. Students will walk away with a whole book file, including cover, mechanical, special effects, and interior page files, which will be ready to upload to a print-on-demand printer of their choosing. If time allows, a bonus class will be dedicated to uploading and troubleshooting files at Kindle Direct Publishing, one of these print-on-demand printers.
Scholarships and Flexible Pricing
It’s our goal to provide as many scholarship seats as we can! You can find out more about scholarship details and apply via the Type Electives Scholarship Page.
This semester, we’re introducing Pay What You Can—a flexible option that lets you choose a contribution that works for your budget.
📆 Priority Scholarship Deadline: Sunday, January 11, 11:59 PM ET
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Kate