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Contemporary design relies on software platforms (think Photoshop or Figma) widely regarded as essential tools for professional creative work. Since the desktop publishing revolution of the 1980s, these tools have shaped how designers create visual form. Generative AI now offers an opportunity for designers to break free of proprietary platforms and build custom software tools unique to their own aesthetic sensibilities. With an emphasis on learning through making, students will experiment with using AI to build personal form-making tools (no coding experience required) that express their own creative point of view. They will then use these tools to generate visual output that will be curated into a class publication.

As generative AI shortens the distance between an idea and a polished, coded outcome, what does it mean to develop a distinct artistic point of view? In this advanced Currents studio, you will build on foundations in front-end code, interface, systems, and prototyping to focus on design judgment: how ideas are formed, references are used, defaults are recognized, and decisions are made about what should or should not be delegated to a model. Through a series of conceptual and experimental projects, you will work with emerging applications of AI across image and UI generation, conversational interfaces, code, research, synthetic personas, and other evolving forms of design practice. Rather than treating AI simply as a faster path to production, we will approach it as a material to test, question, misuse, and complicate. Throughout the semester, we will ask where creative authorship lives when parts of the design process are automated, and how taste, specificity, criticality, restraint, and risk shape work that still feels distinctly your own. Alongside individual projects, the class will build a shared research archive documenting patterns, productive uses, and failure modes of AI-assisted design.

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This course consists of a series of three workshops, which explore contemporary positions in Communication Design, taught by specialists / working professionals from industry. Each workshop is 5 weeks long and examines a specific topic in detail. Topics include (but are not limited to) type in space; digital typography and prototyping; and design systems. Further details of the individual workshops will be posted soon. Students are expected to engage in all three workshops and must be present for the duration of the semester.

This course consists of a series of three workshops, which explore contemporary positions in Communication Design, taught by specialists / working professionals from industry. Each workshop is 5 weeks long and examines a specific topic in detail. Topics include (but are not limited to) type in space; digital typography and prototyping; and design systems. Further details of the individual workshops will be posted soon. Students are expected to engage in all three workshops and must be present for the duration of the semester.

This course consists of a series of three workshops, each explore contemporary positions in Communication Design, taught by specialists and working professionals from industry. Each workshop is 5 weeks long and examines a specific topic in detail. Topics of the individual workshops will be posted as they become available. Past workshop topics include a survey of visual culture of 2010s, voice commands and interfaces, generative identity systems, speculative platforms, typography in and out of buildings, and what makes a bad design. Students are expected to engage in all three workshops and must be present for the duration of the semester.