This course is specifically designed to serve as a broad foundation for students from non-design backgrounds to give form to content. This is a hands-on studio course that will begin with projects that investigate typography, book and pamphlet design, digital printing, content on the web, and ideation. Contemporary issues that cross design and publishing are discussed through a series of readings and analysis of contemporary books, magazines, and periodicals across both printed and digital platforms. The course is limited to CPCJ students in the fall. In the Spring, half of the class consists of Parsons undergraduate design students, and students work in multidisciplinary teams towards creating conceptual publishing projects.that cross design and publishing through an analysis of contemporary books, magazines, and periodicals across both printed and digital platforms.