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🏠  GD with GD

The hub for all GD with GD projects!

🍎  Classroom

You are here: an open-source archive of syllabi, project descriptions, lectures, and more!

💻  DEMOLAND

A bookstore that runs on code and teaches it too! Read and edit live demos using a code editor that lives right inside your browser.

🦮  Guides and Tutorials

👶  Baby Steps

Everything you need to know for when you first start coding!

📝  Cheatsheet

Quick-reference guide for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript!

📁  Pathfinder

An explanation of how folder structure works on websites!

💡  Inspiration

🔦  Student Spotlight

Web-based student projects from GD with GD courses!

🔠  Variable Fonts Workshop

Toys for playing with an testing variable fonts, as well as a showcase of student fonts!

📚  Small Sites; Big Stories

Websites created using as little code as possible!

🕹️  Toys and Tools

🔠  Variable Fonts Workshop

Toys for playing with and testing variable fonts, as well as a showcase of student fonts!

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2025

🔠  Type + Code v2

Design experimental fonts, and then launch a type foundry to showcase your work!

  • RISD
  • Fall 2025
  • GRAPH 3123

🎬  In Motion v2

A tour through the world of motion design, with an emphasis on musicality and performance!

  • RISD
  • Fall 2025
  • GRAPH 2216

👆  Design for Interaction v1

A primer on UI/UX from the perspectives of performance and playfulness.

  • RISD
  • Spring 2025
  • GRAPH 3327

🤖  Introduction to Computation v1

Computer science for designers and artists.

  • RISD
  • Spring 2025
  • CTC 1000

2024

🔠  Type + Code v1

Creative coding elective focusing on type design, digital fonts, and unique reading experiences.

  • RISD
  • Fall 2024
  • GRAPH 3123

🎬  In Motion v1

Motion design elective exploring a wide range of skills and use cases for animation.

  • RISD
  • Fall 2024
  • GRAPH 2216

🔡  Variable Fonts Workshop v2

Type design through the lens of experimental variable fonts.

  • RISD
  • Spring 2024
  • GRAPH 3163

🌐  Web Sites & Stories v1

Web design and development as a medium for storytelling.

  • RISD
  • Winter 2024
  • GRAPH 3271

2023

💻  Web Programming Workshop v2

The basics of HTML, CSS, and a tiny bit of JavaScript.

  • RISD
  • Fall 2023
  • GRAPH 3188

🔡  Variable Fonts Workshop v1

Type design through the lens of experimental variable fonts.

  • RISD
  • Spring 2023
  • GRAPH 3163

📺  Digital Form v1

Introduction to graphic, motion, and web design from a digital-first perspective.

  • RISD
  • Winter 2023
  • GRAPH 1566

2022

💻  Web Programming Workshop v1

The basics of HTML, CSS, and a tiny bit of JavaScript.

  • RISD
  • Fall 2022
  • GRAPH 3188
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Course Materials

Syllabus

Schedule

Resources

Projects

Research & Analysis

Project 1: Time Traveler

Project 2: Live Type

Project 3: Not a Book

Class Websites

Baby Steps

The Designer’s Guide to Web Programming

DEMOLAND

test-project-1.html

Type Design Tutorials

Glyphs Basics

Setting Up Variable Axes

Pixel Fonts

Drawing in Glyphs

Readings

Introduction to the World Wide Web

By Dave Raggett

  • Week 2

A History of HTML

By Dave Raggett

  • Week 2

Cascading HTML style sheets -- a proposal

By Håkon W Lie

  • Week 2

20 Years of CSS

By Bert Bos

  • Week 2

A brief history of CSS until 2016

By Bert Bos

  • Week 2

Web Design in 4 Minutes

By Jeremy Thomas

  • Week 3

A Handmade Web

By J. R. Carpenter

  • Week 3

We Are Family! I’ve Got All My Variations With Me

By David Jonathan Ross

  • Week 5

Typeface as Programme

By Jürg Lehni

  • Week 6

Letter & Spirit

By Dexter Sinister

  • Week 7

How Google perfected the web

By Mia Sato

  • Week 9

My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be?

By Laurel Schwulst

  • Week 10

Net Art Anthology

By Rhizome

  • Week 12
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