Sessional Instructor: Graphic Design - Design Process 1 & 2, Faculty of Design, Fall/Winter 2024-25

Sessional Instructor : Graphic Design - Design Process 1 & 2, Faculty of Design, Fall / Winter 2024-25 Job Code 3266 Department Faculty of Design Employment Type Temporary / Contract Apply Now

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The Faculty of Design invites applications for the following anticipated course offering in Graphic Design for the Fall and Winter semester of the 2024 / 2025 academic year.

GRPH-1001 Design Process 1 (1 credit)

FALL 2024 : 9 / 4 / 2024 12 / 3 / 2024; In-Person)

This course runs twice a week in the following configuration :

• Monday and Wednesday 8 : 30am to 11 : 30am (EDT / EST), or
• Tuesday and Thursday 11 : 50am to 2 : 50pm (EDT / EST), or
• Tuesday and Thursday 8 : 30am to 11 : 30am (EDT / EST)

COURSE DESCRIPTION : Design Process 1 is an introductory sequence of experiences that begins to address the operations and conditions of the communication designer as a relationship between tools, techniques, process, decisions, and knowledges.

Projects include experimentations with visual systems, empirical research, and programming which are experienced through approaches to making visual form.

Design is engaged as a process through visual experimentation, exploration, and iteration. This foundational course fosters connections between making, looking, and thinking as design-specific skills.

Two-dimensional project work using both hand and digital techniques are developed alongside reflective writing relating to specific practices such as colour, drawing, materiality, photography, and typography.

GRPH-1002 Design Process 2 (1 credit)

WINTER 2025 : 1 / 9 / 2025 4 / 25 / 2025; In-Person)

This course runs twice a week in the following configuration :

• Friday and Wednesday 3 : 10 to 6 : 30 (EDT / EST), or
• Tuesday and Thursday 8 : 30am to 11 : 30am (EDT / EST)

COURSE DESCRIPTION : Design Process 2 further develops the foundational activities, languages, tools, and techniques from Design Process 1 by engaging in practices related to form / space, information analysis, and sequential narrative.

Projects require considerations of visual communication as a social and cultural activity that reflects and responds to the past, the present, and to future contexts.

Process-based learning uses technical and analytical methods necessary for more independent learning in the upper years.

Competences in three-dimensional, time-based, and print media are explored through a series of investigations that incorporate visual form, typography, colour, image, student intent, and reflective writing components to create purposeful work.

RESPONSIBILITIES : Teaching and teaching-related responsibilities may include but are not limited to : participation in curriculum coordination meetings (3x per term), course outline development, studio preparation and delivery inclusive of lectures, critiques, rubric and written-comment based assessment, mid-term evaluations and final evaluations / reviews;

including responsibility for health & safety and meeting academic and curricular requirements and deadlines. QUALIFICATIONS :

• The successful applicant should have a Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design or another relevant discipline, and / or equivalent professional experience
• Outstanding communication skills, and a demonstrated capacity to support and resource independent studio investigations
• A demonstrated commitment to the principles of equity and diversity, and proven ability to work effectively and collegially with a diverse population of students and faculty

A candidate should have a working knowledge of the following to support student skill development in technology, design practice(s) :

• Adobe Creative Suite; other design software an asset
• Design and technical considerations for print and screen

In addition, a candidate should have :

• A current body of work within the professional design and / or academic disciplines as it relates to the course description;
• Experience with, and aptitude for highly iterative, process-oriented work without the restriction of fixed outcomes or expectations;
• A demonstrated capacity to support one or more core capacities : design as process, storytelling / motion design, interaction design, information design, speculative design / design fiction, typography;
• A deep capacity to support open investigations towards process-driven outcomes;
• An asset : two (2) years of teaching experience at undergrad level in graphic design.
• An asset : experience teaching remotely (but not required).

TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT : Sessional appointments are fixed-term annual contracts. Sessional compensation includes a per-course pay scale with salary level of $6,871.

00 (per 0.5 credit course) plus 7% in lieu of benefits and vacation pay, per the provisions of the Employment Standards Act.

These positions are subject to budgetary approval and satisfactory enrolment levels.

Applications should include :

• a letter of intent stating the candidate’s interests in and experience relating to teaching the courses listed above (where applicable state the specific course from those listed above);
• a curriculum vitae;
• a statement of teaching philosophy that responds to the profile of the position;
• a web address / link to an online or PDF portfolio of recent relevant design / art / teaching work;
• and the names and contact information of three references.

Please upload all five (5) components (including the URL to work) as one PDF . Incomplete applications will not be considered.

Please name your upload : FirstName LastName-GRPH1001 1002. Incomplete applications will not be considered.