Nancy Skolos works with her partner/husband Thomas Wedell to diminish the boundaries between graphic design and photography—creating collaged three-dimensional images influenced by modern painting, technology and architecture. The studio’s work came into its own during the 1980s with clients in the Boston area including Kloss Video Corporation, Boston Acoustics and Digital Equipment Corporation, where the team’s surreal photographic concepts combined with rational typographic structures gave voice to such concepts as “software.” An EyeMagazine feature on the studio labeled their attitude “techno-cubist.”
Skolos is an AIGA Medalist and AIGA Fellow and an elected member of AGI. The studio has received numerous awards, including gold, silver and bronze prizes in the Warsaw, Lahti and Toyama Poster Biennials and Triennials, and has been widely published and exhibited. Skolos + Wedell posters are included in the graphic design collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, the Library of Congress, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Israel Museum, the Museum für Gestaltung, the National Museum in Poznan and many others. They have authored two books: Type, Image, Message (Rockport, 2006) and Graphic Design Process (Laurence King, 2012).
Courses
Fall 2024 Courses
GRAPH 332G-01 - GRADUATE TYPOGRAPHY STUDIO I
LevelGraduate
UnitGraphic Design
Subject Graphic Design
Period Fall 2024
Credits 3
FormatStudio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
GRAPH 332G-01
GRADUATE TYPOGRAPHY STUDIO I
LevelGraduate
UnitGraphic Design
Subject Graphic Design
PeriodFall 2024
Credits3
FormatStudio
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2024-09-04 to 2024-12-11
Times: W | 11:20 AM - 4:20 PMInstructor(s): Nancy SkolosLocation(s): Design Center, Room 407Enrolled / Capacity: 14Status: Open
SECTION DESCRIPTION
Graduate Typography I through III (GRAPH-332G/342G/352G) are a sequence of courses that focus on the subject of typography. This sequence covers the fundamentals of typography, its theory, practice, technology and history. Studies range from introductory through advanced levels. Grad Typography I includes: the study of letterforms, type design, proportion, hierarchy, legibility, and structures for composition of multiple type elements. Aspects of contemporary practice and theory are integrated into research and discussion.
Majors are pre-registered for this course by the department. Enrollment is limited to Graduate Graphic Design Students.
Major Requirement | MFA Graphic Design (3yr)
Spring 2025 Courses
GRAPH 3211-01 - COLOR + SURFACE
LevelUndergraduate
UnitGraphic Design
Subject Graphic Design
Period Spring 2025
Credits 3
FormatStudio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
GRAPH 3211-01
COLOR + SURFACE
LevelUndergraduate
UnitGraphic Design
Subject Graphic Design
PeriodSpring 2025
Credits3
FormatStudio
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2025-02-13 to 2025-05-23
Times: M | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PMInstructor(s): Nancy Skolos, Richard RoseLocation(s): Design Center, Room 407Enrolled / Capacity: 14Status: Open
SECTION DESCRIPTION
Color is a phenomenon of light and pigment and is an expressive and symbolic component of art and design. Color exists in myriad forms: as ink on paper, as pixels on computers, paint on canvas, as light on screens, and reflected off surfaces of objects both natural and man-made. Through a series of exercises and assignments, students in this class will explore the power of color-seeing color in action as well as examining and creating color relationships and operations. Students will rotate through two faculty for six weeks each, and in doing so, explore how designers utilize color and how color gets applied to surfaces. Students will develop a general understanding of color theory and applied color through observation and articulation. These techniques and skills will serve as a complement to your other required core courses. A blend of lectures, demonstrations, studio exercises, assignments, and critiques, will allow students to observe, articulate, analyze, and practice the use of color.
Majors are pre-registered for this course by the department. Enrollment is limited to Sophomore Graphic Design Students.
Major Requirement | BFA Graphic Design
GRAPH 3211-05 - COLOR + SURFACE
LevelUndergraduate
UnitGraphic Design
Subject Graphic Design
Period Spring 2025
Credits 3
FormatStudio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
GRAPH 3211-05
COLOR + SURFACE
LevelUndergraduate
UnitGraphic Design
Subject Graphic Design
PeriodSpring 2025
Credits3
FormatStudio
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2025-02-13 to 2025-05-23
Times: M | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PMInstructor(s): Emily Rye, Nancy SkolosLocation(s): Design Center, Room 501Enrolled / Capacity: 14Status: Open
SECTION DESCRIPTION
Color is a phenomenon of light and pigment and is an expressive and symbolic component of art and design. Color exists in myriad forms: as ink on paper, as pixels on computers, paint on canvas, as light on screens, and reflected off surfaces of objects both natural and man-made. Through a series of exercises and assignments, students in this class will explore the power of color-seeing color in action as well as examining and creating color relationships and operations. Students will rotate through two faculty for six weeks each, and in doing so, explore how designers utilize color and how color gets applied to surfaces. Students will develop a general understanding of color theory and applied color through observation and articulation. These techniques and skills will serve as a complement to your other required core courses. A blend of lectures, demonstrations, studio exercises, assignments, and critiques, will allow students to observe, articulate, analyze, and practice the use of color.
Majors are pre-registered for this course by the department. Enrollment is limited to Sophomore Graphic Design Students.
