Lucinda Hitchcock works with graduate and undergraduate graphic design students. She is interested in typography, visual and dimensional language, spatial narrative and book design. She teaches typography, visual narrative, conceptual design and, most recently,Shaping Language, a new course she developed in which students investigate the materiality of the written word across print and digital spaces in both 2D and 3D.
Before joining the faculty at RISD in the late 1990s, Hitchcock worked for studios in New York and New Mexico, taught at the Art Institute of Boston and ran a small letterpress shop in Boston’s South End. In 2000 she established her practice, Lucinda Hitchcock Design, and in 2011 joined award-winning design collaborative The Design Office in downtown Providence.
Hitchcock’s practice focuses on producing books and other printed material for such artistic and cultural institutions as the MFA Boston, the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and several independent publishers, including Godine and Chronicle Books. Her designs have won numerous awards, and her work has been showcased in Communication Arts, AIGA 50 Books, Print Magazine, Best of New England exhibitions and the American Association of University Presses’ “best of” shows and catalogues.
Hitchcock’s published work includes a piece for the scholarly journal Visible Language (vol. 34, issue 2, 2000), and some of her type experiments accompanied selected student work in the book Type Design: Radical Innovations and Experimentation (Thames and Hudson, 2004), edited by Teal Triggs. Hitchcock was included in the book Women in Graphic Design 1890–2012 (Jovis Verlag, 2012), and she wrote a chapter for the book The Art of Critical Making: Rhode Island School of Design on Creative Practice (Wiley and Sons, 2013).
Courses
Fall 2024 Courses
GRAPH 3226-04 - DESIGN STUDIO 3
LevelUndergraduate
UnitGraphic Design
Subject Graphic Design
Period Fall 2024
Credits 6
FormatStudio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
GRAPH 3226-04
DESIGN STUDIO 3
LevelUndergraduate
UnitGraphic Design
Subject Graphic Design
PeriodFall 2024
Credits6
FormatStudio
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2024-09-04 to 2024-12-11
Times: W | 11:20 AM - 4:20 PM; M | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PMInstructor(s): Lucinda HitchcockLocation(s): Design Center, Room 210Enrolled / Capacity: 14Status: Open
SECTION DESCRIPTION
Students are expected to develop personal working methods and interests through more general questions posed by the faculty. Longer-term projects will be intermixed with shorter projects posed by visiting critics. Students should complete the Design Studio track with a developed sense of self, and able to start framing questions and lines of inquiries of their own. End forms will be more emphasized than in Design Studio 1 and 2, in part as evidence that craft and working methods are sufficiently evolved. The twice-a-week format is intended for juniors or advanced designers who have completed the first two semesters of Design Studio or an equivalent design principles track.
Please contact the department for permission to register.
Major Requirement | BFA Graphic Design
GRAPH 3181-01 - WKSHP: PRE-PRESS AND RISOGRAPH PRINTING
LevelUndergraduate
UnitGraphic Design
Subject Graphic Design
Period Fall 2024
Credits 1
FormatWorkshop
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
GRAPH 3181-01
WKSHP: PRE-PRESS AND RISOGRAPH PRINTING
LevelUndergraduate
UnitGraphic Design
Subject Graphic Design
PeriodFall 2024
Credits1
FormatWorkshop
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2024-09-06 to 2024-09-27
Times: F | 8:00 AM - 1:00 PMInstructor(s): Lucinda HitchcockLocation(s): Design Center, Room 701Enrolled / Capacity: 10Status: Closed
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This workshop will use Risograph printing to combine practical prepress skills with experimental form-making. The aim of the workshop is to teach students to consider the craft and value of well-planned files to produce high-quality outputs that can be replicated and shared. By focusing on the Risograph printer students will work within a series of technical constraints that will require creative solutions as well as a strong understanding of this particular printing process, color, paper, and file preparation.
Estimated Cost of Materials: $40.00
Elective
GRAPH 3181-02 - WKSHP: PRE-PRESS AND RISOGRAPH PRINTING
LevelUndergraduate
UnitGraphic Design
Subject Graphic Design
Period Fall 2024
Credits 1
FormatWorkshop
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
GRAPH 3181-02
WKSHP: PRE-PRESS AND RISOGRAPH PRINTING
LevelUndergraduate
UnitGraphic Design
Subject Graphic Design
PeriodFall 2024
Credits1
FormatWorkshop
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2024-10-04 to 2024-10-25
Times: F | 8:00 AM - 1:00 PMInstructor(s): Lucinda HitchcockLocation(s): Design Center, Room 701Enrolled / Capacity: 10Status: Closed
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This workshop will use Risograph printing to combine practical prepress skills with experimental form-making. The aim of the workshop is to teach students to consider the craft and value of well-planned files to produce high-quality outputs that can be replicated and shared. By focusing on the Risograph printer students will work within a series of technical constraints that will require creative solutions as well as a strong understanding of this particular printing process, color, paper, and file preparation.
Estimated Cost of Materials: $40.00
Elective
GRAPH 3181-03 - WKSHP: PRE-PRESS AND RISOGRAPH PRINTING
LevelUndergraduate
UnitGraphic Design
Subject Graphic Design
Period Fall 2024
Credits 1
FormatWorkshop
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
GRAPH 3181-03
WKSHP: PRE-PRESS AND RISOGRAPH PRINTING
LevelUndergraduate
UnitGraphic Design
Subject Graphic Design
PeriodFall 2024
Credits1
FormatWorkshop
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2024-11-01 to 2024-11-22
Times: F | 8:00 AM - 1:00 PMInstructor(s): Lucinda HitchcockLocation(s): Design Center, Room 701Enrolled / Capacity: 10Status: Open
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This workshop will use Risograph printing to combine practical prepress skills with experimental form-making. The aim of the workshop is to teach students to consider the craft and value of well-planned files to produce high-quality outputs that can be replicated and shared. By focusing on the Risograph printer students will work within a series of technical constraints that will require creative solutions as well as a strong understanding of this particular printing process, color, paper, and file preparation.
