Design major or not, everyone should stop and acknowledge new RWC faculty member, Professor Patrick Schreiber, of the Department of Art and Visual Communication. Like many students, Professor Schreiber wasn’t quite positive what his college major should be. After processing this decision, he pursued Fine Art (drawing), an area he says he has always had a knack in.
“I had always achieved well in art classes, going all the way back to grade school,” Schreiber states. “It was during my freshman year that I became interested in the field of Graphic Design, as I was attending Foundation classes with students in all of the various fields of art and design.”
After receiving a bachelor degree from the Art Academy of Cincinnati and attending a Yale summer program in Graphic Design, Schreiber was accepted into a five-week program in Switzerland under the direction of renowned designer and educator Armin Hoffmann.
There he took courses from distinguished educators and world-famous designers, such as Pierre Mendel, Wolfgang Weingart, Paul Rand, and Richard Sapper.
“The experience really opened my eyes to what the field of design had to offer,” Schreiber describes. “It would also be the catalyst that would later be the aspiration behind me pursuing Yale University for my graduate education.” Schreiber decided to attend the School of Design in the General Technical School of Basel, during his second year of graduate school from Yale. There he worked as a teaching assistant to Inge Druckery and Matthew Carter in the letterform and typography class.
“I was encouraged by Inge to think about going to Basel,” he explained. Even though Professor Schreiber was entirely aware of the school’s well-known history, he began to think that after two years of Yale graduate work he should be done with his education.
“Obviously Inge Druckery saw something,” the Schreiber noted, “and I had learned to listen to the mentors that I respected.”
After all of his amazing journeys, the Graphic Design professor wishes “to bring to the students and RWC an enthusiasm combined with diverse training that will help the students to develop and achieve their own educational goals. With 20 years of professional experience under my belt, I hope that I can bring an understanding of today’s business needs to the classroom and offer real-world insight to what might appear to be simple pragmatic exercises.