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Advanced Design

Fall 2025, FA-315-1, Adv Design Topics: Ethics in Design, R Kanner:

Advanced Studio: Ethics in Design is an advanced course in graphic design. Classes are a blend of conversation and creating. We’ll use a loose framework of working backwards to help us complete projects. Students are encouraged to work in whichever medium they feel most comfortable in. We’ll work together as if we were in a real studio. The teacher (that’s me) will work as a creative director and the students (that’s you) will work as designers, owning and delivering on creative work.

Storytelling is the core theme of this course. We’ll use our time to investigate the answers to these questions: What is the story you want to tell? What do you want the audience to take from your work? What does your visual voice look like? You are encouraged to drive each other’s work through discussion and critique

3 credits. Pre-Req: GD II and Pre/Co-Req: Typography. May be repeated.

Course Code: FA-315

  • Founded by inventor, industrialist and philanthropist Peter Cooper in 1859, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art offers education in art, architecture and engineering, as well as courses in the humanities and social sciences.

  • “My feelings, my desires, my hopes, embrace humanity throughout the world,” Peter Cooper proclaimed in a speech in 1853. He looked forward to a time when, “knowledge shall cover the earth as waters cover the great deep.”

  • From its beginnings, Cooper Union was a unique institution, dedicated to founder Peter Cooper's proposition that education is the key not only to personal prosperity but to civic virtue and harmony.

  • Peter Cooper wanted his graduates to acquire the technical mastery and entrepreneurial skills, enrich their intellects and spark their creativity, and develop a sense of social justice that would translate into action.