This project showcases posters created and designed by CUNY City Tech students as a semester project Professor John De Santis typography design class. The project’s goals are to simulate professional scenario where the student is the designer and the Brooklyn Historical Society is the client. Similar to what this may look like in the real world, students are asked to complete a creative brief, conduct research about their client and their client’s needs, to brainstorm multiple ideas for their design concept before choosing one to refine, to give and receive design critique with peers, and finally to finalize their poster based on feedback before giving a final presentation to the class outlining their final concept as related to their research and design choices. In addition to helping students develop their typography skills, this assignment aims to equip students with professional skills like client research conceptualization.
In addition to showcasing high quality student work, the Brooklyn Historical Society project site demonstrates a unique use of the City Tech OER OpenLab platform. The project site houses posters created by students across 6 sections of the same course, and is used in conjunction with private, individual course sites. Professor John De Santis use this structure to give students a private space and closed community with which to develop their posters, while also creating a public-facing site to share completed work.
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