Registration is now open for online and in-person summer classes at The Cooper Union!
Check out all the upcoming classes here.

Movable Typography

with Clinton van Arnam

10 online sessions
Tuesdays, June 2–August 4
6:30–9:30PM ET
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From early film titles to modern kinetic identities, moving typography has shaped visual culture for over a century. 
This class positions motion as a continuation of that lineage — a space where typographic history, emerging technologies, and contemporary practice intersect. Students develop a grounded understanding of how motion principles evolve from tradition, and how they can be applied in today’s design landscape.

Principles of Typeface Design: Sketch to Vector

with Zrinka Buljubašić

9 online sessions
Tuesdays, June 2–August 4
6:30–9:30PM ET
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Ready to design a font but not sure where to start or already underway but aiming for better?
For designers and type enthusiasts keen to delve into typeface creation, this course will enhance your understanding of letterforms, typefaces, and the significance of hands-on work. Learn to transform ideas into sketches, evaluate iterations, and transition from analog to digital, creating new type systems along the way.

Designing with Coding Agents

with Romello Goodman

3 online sessions
Tuesdays, June 9 to 23
6:30–8:30PM ET
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Every tool has its own grain. A brush favors gestures, a grid favors order, and a coding agent favors conversation. Each changes what it means to author something.
In this workshop, students use a coding agent as a creative collaborator to write JavaScript and p5.js sketches. Week one, you make a word move. Week two, you build a tool that manipulates letterforms. Week three, your body becomes the input.

Advanced Typography for Book Design

with Jesse Johanning

10 in-person sessions
Wednesdays, June 10–August 12
6:30–9:30PM
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Have you ever wondered why a paragraph you’ve laid out doesn’t look quite as good as in your favorite books? There are countless tricks and theories to typesetting a beautiful page that aren’t in textbooks but passed down by word-of-mouth over generations. In this class, you will unlock the hidden keys to typesetting beautiful bodies of text and create groundbreaking layouts with typographic precision. 

NEW CLASS: Advanced Infographic Design Intensive

with Manuel Bortoletti and guest speaker Giorgia Lupi

9 in-person sessions at The Cooper Union
Monday, June 15 to Thursday, June 25
10:00AM–*5:00PM

This course explores infographic design as a visual journalism practice, where typography, data, maps, and illustration work together to communicate complexity clearly and responsibly. *Learn more about this exciting new opportunity!

Back by popular demand: Paper Grocery Signs

with John Downer

In-person
Monday & Tuesday, June 22 & 23
10:00AM–5:00PM
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Traditional paper grocery store window signs are a classic American sign (painting) staple requiring lettering, layout and production skills. In this hands-on workshop, learn to letter and design layouts for paper signs and to work with Japan color paint on butcher paper as well as the tricks of the trade to do professional quality signs quickly. 

GIS and Cartography for Designers: an Introduction

with Sara Eichner

In-person
Wednesday & Thursday, June 24 & 25
10:00AM–5:00PM
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Get an introduction to the fundamentals of spatial thinking and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) while exploring the principles of cartographic design. This weekend workshop focuses on using open-source GIS tools (such as QGIS) to create custom maps that can be integrated into design projects using platforms like Adobe Creative Suite and Figma.

NEW CLASS: CurveTo: Drawing Fonts with Python and the Pen Protocol

with Connor Davenport

In-person
Thursday, June 25
10:00AM–6:00PM
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Learn to leverage your python skills to draw and modify fonts (UFO) with Python and the “pen protocol”. Pens are the foundation of the UFO workflow in type design, whether you script your own pens or just draw Béziers with a UI, you interact with them everyday.

AfterEffects Tools

with Daniel Wenzel

In-person
Sunday, June 28
10:00AM–6:00PM
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One-day crash course in procedural workflows within Adobe After Effects. This workshop focuses on building modular setups, toolkits, and systems using native AE features, and scripting.

Type Design for Non-Type Designers

with Matteo Bologna and Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer

In-person
Sunday, June 28 & Monday, June 29
10:00AM–6:00PM
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In this two-day class, you will learn the basics of designing and generating a variable font with the font-design software Glyphs (Mac only). Go beyond choosing the same typefaces from the type menu to creating your own!

Graffiti Concepts for Type People

with Kel Troughton

In-person
Sunday, June 28 & Monday, June 29
10:00AM–5:00PM
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Learn drawing techniques and understand letter structure through the lens of graffiti writing to strengthen your type and lettering work. This workshop centers on graffiti pieces and the rich subculture of graffiti writers, a tradition of letterforms that originated on New York City subways in the 1970s.

Apply by May 30th to the 2026–2027 Type@Cooper Post-Graduate Certificate Program in Typeface Design.

Top industry professionals lead a focused and comprehensive study of key typeface design principles: technique, aesthetics, expression, history, and theory.

Participants design and produce their own typefaces as digital fonts made to industry standards, and exit the program with the specialized skills needed to design professional-quality digital typefaces and lettering.

Join online or in-person. Learn more about the program.