A *New* Program for Graphic Design 
by David Reinfurt
is a do-it-yourself textbook that synthesizes the pragmatic with the experimental and builds on mid-to late-20th-century pedagogical models to convey advanced principles of contemporary design for a general reader. 

Rooted in three courses (Typography, Gestalt, and Interface) originally developed for liberal arts students at Princeton University, the book provides a broad introduction from Benjamin Franklin to Bruno Munari, Moholy-Nagy to Muriel Cooper and the Macintosh computer. 

A *New* Program for Graphic Design is published by Inventory Press and Distributed Art Publishers and generously funded by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, the Barr Ferree Foundation Fund for Publications, Department of Art and Archaelogy and the Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University.



November 22–24, 2019
Sprint Milano
Milan, Italy

Exhibition
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Lecture
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Billboard
Spazio Maiocchi

This certainly is not a carefully crafted collection of rules, guidelines, and methods intended to shore up graphic design as a relevant discipline. It is inevitably more of a digressive, discursive ramble, an occasionally high-speed pitch across any number of subjects and settings, though never possibly enough. Anyone else, by definition, would do this differently. It’s limited, as much by my imagination and by my experience as by the practical constraints of a book. But in its form is also its argument. So let me be explicit: When you’ve finished A *New* Program for Graphic Design, rip it up, throw it away, and get busy assembling your own.

Now, let’s get started.








November 18, 2019
Princeton University Lewis Center for the Arts

To launch the publication, eight recent Princeton graphic design alumni from the Program in Visual Arts will return to campus and each briefly present what they do now in their jobs at media outlets and museums including The New Yorker, Musuem of Modern Art, Whitney Museum, Knopf, and Dreamworks.

The returning graphic design students are: Kara Bressler, Ben Denzer, Nazli Ercan, Lily Healy, Eric Li, Neeta Patel, Simon Wu, and Jonathan Zong.

More here:
https://arts.princeton.edu/events/a-new-program-for-graphic-design-book-launch/



November 13, 2019
School of Visual Arts Design Research

After a brief introduction, David Reinfurt will present eight years of class lectures randomly sampled and compressed into exactly one hour. This lecture is followed by a short Q&A and drinks reception, where you can take the opportunity to chat with our speaker as well as students and faculty of the program. This event free and open to the public, but you must RSVP to attend.

https://designresearch.sva.edu/david-reinfurt


October 24, 2019
Central Saint Martins School of Art
Communication Design

Rooted in three courses (Typography, Gestalt, and Interface) originally developed for liberal arts students at Princeton University, the book provides a broad introduction from Benjamin Franklin to Bruno Munari, Moholy-Nagy to Muriel Cooper and the Macintosh computer. After a brief introduction, David Reinfurt will present eight years of class lectures randomly sampled and compressed into exactly one hour.

http://csmgcd.net/lectures/




October 10, 2019
Yale University School of Art

An independent graphic designer in New York City, David Reinfurt (MFA in Graphic Design, ‘99) introduced the study of graphic design at Princeton University in 2010. In late September, a book based on his teaching will be published by Inventory Press (Los Angeles) with D.A.P. (New York). A * New * Program for Graphic Design is a do-it-yourself textbook that synthesizes the pragmatic with the experimental and builds on mid- to late-twentieth-century pedagogical models to convey advanced principles of contemporary design. Rooted in three courses (Typography, Gestalt, and Interface) originally developed for liberal arts students, the book provides a broad introduction to graphic design and visual literacy for readers from any discipline. 

 As a co-founder of O-R-G inc., Dexter Sinister, and The Serving Library, Reinfurt has developed several models that have reimagined graphic design and publishing in the twenty-first century. He was 2016– 2017 Mark Hampton Rome Prize Fellow in Design at the American Academy in Rome and is the co- author of Muriel Cooper (MIT Press, 2017). 

Copies of A * New * Program for Graphic Design will be available for purchase. 

1156 Chapel Street 
Graphic Design Atrium 
New Haven, CT 06511



October 4, 2019
School for Poetic Computation 

For the Fall Salon, opening of the start of the new term David Reinfurt presents a compressed audio-visual version of his just-published book, A New Program for Graphic Design. This event will be interactive and most likely involve synthesizers.

The School for Poetic Computation is an artist-run school in New York that was founded in 2013. A small group of students and faculty work closely to explore the intersections of code, design, hardware and theory.

155 Bank Street
New York NY 10014



September 21, 2019
New York Art Book Fair

David Reinfurt will compress eight years of lectures given in the graphic design program at Princeton University into exactly one (perhaps manic) hour of slides. The event will be held in The Classroom in the Basement Theater at MoMA PS1, with a brief introduction by Shannon Harvey and Adam Michaels of Inventory Press. 

MoMA PS1 
22-25 Jackson Ave, Basement 
Long Island City, NY 11101
5:30 pm

Following the New York Art Book Fair PS1 launch, a new Boot Boyz Biz three t-shirt collaboration with IN-FO.CO based on A *New* Program for Graphic Design will be released (and sold) at

O-R-G small softwares
38 Ludlow Street, Basement
New York, NY 10002
8:30 pm





May 25, 2019
Fillip and Emily Carr University present a six-hour lecture performance by artist David Reinfurt. Designed to provide a general yet rigorous graphic design education for students of all backgrounds and levels, Reinfurt will compress three semesters of his Princeton University graphic design curriculum into six 45-minute lectures (with breaks in between). Entrance to this lecture is free but space is extremely limited and an RSVP is required. Light lunch and snacks provided.

Reinfurt’s lecture forms the basis of an upcoming book co-published by Inventory Press, Los Angeles, and Distributed Art Publishers, New York.

COMD Studio
Emily Carr University 
520 E 1st Ave 
Vancouver, Canada






May 8, 2019
The New Typography Now: Design Theory for the 21st Century

Ellen Lupton, curator of contemporary design at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, will lead a conversation with Barbara Glauber, principal of design studio Heavy Meta; David Reinfurt, graphic designer and co-founder of Dexter Sinister and The Serving Library; Taeyoon Choi, artist and co-founder of School for Poetic Computation; and Paul Stirton, curator of Jan Tschichold and the New Typography: Graphic Design Between the World Wars.

Bard Graduate Center 
38 West 86th Street, Lecture Hall
6:30 – 8:00 pm





September 20–23, 2018
To announce the forthcoming publication of the book at the New York Art Book Fair, we distributed posters containing images culled from Reinfurt's lecture slides as well as spreads of the syllabi from each of the three classes.




July 13–28, 2018
*A Graphic Design Exhibition*

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July 15, 2018
July 14, 2018
July 13, 2018
July 13–15, 2018
We are thrilled to present a very special 18 hour Lecture / Performance / Graphic Design Intensive with David Reinfurt on July 13, 14 and 15, 2018. 

Designed to provide a general yet rigorous graphic design education for students of all backgrounds and levels, each day Reinfurt will compress a full semester of his Princeton graphic design curriculum into six 45-minute lectures (with breaks in between), which will be documented and form the basis of an upcoming book from Inventory Press.

Space is limited. R-S-V-P by emailing: info@in-fo.co and indicate which sessions you would like to attend. 


Schedule

Friday, July 13
T-Y-P-O-G-R-A-P-H-Y
10am–1pm *PART A*
3pm–6pm *PART B*

Saturday, July 14
G-E-S-T-A-L-T
10am–1pm *PART A*
3pm–6pm *PART B*

Sunday, July 15
I-N-T-E-R-F-A-C-E
10am–1pm *PART A*
3pm–6pm *PART B*

Please note that all sessions will be recorded and will start on time! Please plan to arrive at least 15 minutes early.


Location

All events will be held at the offices of IN-FO.CO and Inventory Press, at the former offices of Richard Neutra Architects, in Silver Lake, Los Angeles. Street parking is available on Edgewater St. and Deane St.

2379 Glendale Boulevard
June 1, 2018
To form the basis of the upcoming Graham Foundation-funded publication A *New* Program for Graphic Design, graphic designer David Reinfurt will deliver three days of public lectures at the former offices of Richard Neutra (currently the offices of Inventory Press and our design studio IN-FO.CO). Concurrently on view will be an exhibition of works by 184 of David’s graphic design students.

*A Graphic Design Exhibition*
July 13–28, 2018
Fridays and Saturdays 12–6pm or by appointment

A *3-Day* Lecture Series with David Reinfurt
July 13–15, 2018

With thanks to Otis College of Art and Design MFA in Graphic Design for their support of the lecture series, Princeton University for their support of the exhibition, and Graham Foundation for their support of the forthcoming book.