The classroom
Courses
Taught from the library. Each course is a term of readings with its schedule, its syllabus, and its work — the texts open in the same reader the library uses, and your annotations are the coursework.
- ART 418
The Business of Design
Design is being remade by a new medium, again. This course runs the studio's four-phase process — discovery, definition, design, develop — as one engagement across the semester, with AI worked into every phase the way a practice actually uses it: researcher in discovery, option generator in definition, spec-reader in design, production method in develop. What the student documents all term is the part that stays theirs: the judgment, the process, and the price of the work.
Fall 2026 Open the course - AVT 415
Web Design and Usability
The archival record of the Spring 2016 course, transcribed from the syllabus. Responsive web design and user-centered design, taught in the GMU format: named workshops carry the techniques, two seminars carry the debates, and three projects of rising weight carry the semester — a startup's one-page site, its CMS-backed second version, and the portfolio. 400 points, weekly exercises scored 0 to 3, critique attendance mandatory.
Spring 2016 Open the course
Grades of record live with the institution. This is the reading and the schedule.