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Mitchell Volk

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Classes with Mitchell Volk

Examines major developments in graphic design and typography across the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, focusing on field emergence and self-definition.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

historical GPA · grades

Fall 2022–Spring 2026

Advanced graphic design focusing on corporate brand identity, including mark development, packaging, web branding, and broadcast advertising, applying semiotics and communication theory.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2025: 3.98 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=30 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=28 letter grades).

historical GPA · grades

Fall 2022–Spring 2026

Graphic Design for Posters examines poster design as communication, focusing on combining words and images using principles of composition, perception, and rhetoric.

Offering recorded · Spring 2027 · Sources

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=16 letter grades); Spring 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=15 letter grades); Spring 2026: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=15 letter grades).

historical GPA · grades

Fall 2022–Spring 2026

Recorded teaching history

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TermCourseTitle
Spring 2027ART 438History of Graphic Design and Typography
Spring 2027ART 458Graphic Design for Branding and Identity
Spring 2027ART 467Graphic Design for Posters
Fall 2026ART 438History of Graphic Design and Typography
Fall 2026ART 458Graphic Design for Branding and Identity
Fall 2026ART 546Graphic Design for Publications

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Instructor identity & provenance
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