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Seeking Visiting Professor of Graphic Design/Reading Experience

Wednesday 9 December 2020  

 

ELIA member, Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, Poland, seeks a visiting professor to deliver a one-semester course in Graphic Design/Reading Experience in the academic year 2020/2021 (summer semester).

The course should be:

  • delivered on campus, or online if necessary (on-campus delivery is preferred),
  • in English,
  • combining workshops and lectures (up to 8 hours’ lectures out of 60 hours total).

Dates:

1–5 March 2021, 9:00 – 14:00 including breaks (30 hours)

31 May – 4 June 2021, 9:00 – 14:00 including breaks (30 hours)

The course will be part of the Master’s degree programme in Designing Reading Experience and Interactive Storytelling.

Typography is a field of visual communication design aimed at facilitating the reading process.The objective of the course is to provide future designers with the necessary knowledge and skills to set their communication objectives and to develop appropriate means of achieving them. In this process, a broad interdisciplinary approach to typography is essential. We place great emphasis on the design process, social responsibility of the designer, ethical attitude and the use of research results for the purpose of diagnosing actual needs, defining user specifics and user contexts, and prototyping solutions.

Learning content includes:

  1. System design (typography understood as a system of information processing and transmission as well as knowledge creation)
  2. Building appropriate design solutions based on relationships between: the project's communication goal, the specifics of the recipient, the functional context, the medium, the communication channel
  3. Prototyping and testing
  4. Documenting the course of the design process and creating documentation of the project concept
  5. A holistic approach to the project problem
  6. Effective use of typographic means

We ask the visiting professor to prepare two versions of the course outline: for on-campus or online delivery. The course outline should specify the learning content and teaching methods, including the lectures and learning materials. We prefer the course to be delivered on campus, if the pandemic situation allows it, but we also consider having the first session online and the second on campus.

Remuneration: PLN21,000* (PLN350/hour, ca EUR80 /hour) In case of on-campus delivery also:

  • reimbursement of hotel invoice,
  • reimbursement of travel expenses.

*No deductions will be made from the remuneration amount provided that the visiting professor submits:

  1. an official certificate of fiscal residence to be exempted from income tax in Poland,
  2. A1 form (EU member states)/certificate of coverage (some nationalities).

Applicants should send the following documents to program-rozwoju@asp.katowice.pl by 28 January 2021:

  • application form
  • CV/bio
  • portfolio (a web link or pdf file)
  • outline of the course content (~1000 characters).

Find out more information and application details here.

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