David Reinfurt: A * New * ­Program for Graphic Design

Thursday, October 10

7pm

1156 Chapel Street,

Graphic Design Atrium

(Room 104)

An independent graphic designer in New York City, David Reinfurt (MFA in Graphic Design, ‘99) introduced the study of graphic design at Princeton University in 2010. In late September, a book based on his teaching will be published by Inventory Press (Los Angeles) with D.A.P. (New York). A * New * Program for Graphic Design is a do-it-yourself textbook that synthesizes the pragmatic with the experimental and builds on mid- to late-twentieth-century pedagogical models to convey advanced principles of contemporary design. Rooted in three courses (Typography, Gestalt, and Interface) originally developed for liberal arts students, the book provides a broad introduction to graphic design and visual literacy for readers from any discipline.

As a co-founder of O-R-G inc., Dexter Sinister, and The Serving Library, Reinfurt has developed several models that have reimagined graphic design and publishing in the twenty-first century. He was 2016– 2017 Mark Hampton Rome Prize Fellow in Design at the American Academy in Rome and is the co- author of Muriel Cooper (MIT Press, 2017).

Copies of A * New * Program for Graphic Design will be available for purchase.

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Background image: Composite RGB color space from an assignment in VIS 216, G-e-s-t-a-l-t, at Princeton University to develop a new model for understanding the differences between additive and subtractive color.