Beth (Mary-Elizabeth) Tondreau’s Profile

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Beth (Mary-Elizabeth) Tondreau
Display Name
Beth (Mary-Elizabeth) Tondreau
Pronouns
She, her
Title
Adjunct Lecturer
Department
Communication Design
Office Location
Varies.
Academic interests

Typography, History of Graphic Design, Art History, (History in General), Literature

Bio

Beth Tondreau is the owner of a small design company named Beth Tondreau Design, Inc. (aka BTDnyc).

Prior to founding BTD in 1985, Beth Tondreau was Design Director at then-named Viking/Penguin (which is now PenguinRandomHouse), where she managed staff and projects for the Adult Trade and Penguin paperback divisions. Beth has also held positions as a designer and art director at additional publishing houses in New York, London, and Boston.

Beth earned a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, completed Radcliffe’s Publishing Procedures Program, and pursued studies at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. While working in London, she learned from colleagues at William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. (now HarperCollins). Beth has served as a lecturer at FIT and NYU and has appeared as a guest speaker at Pace and City College. She is honored to teach at New York City College of Technology.

In 2019, Rockport Publishers (Quarto) reissued her 2009 textbook Layout Essentials in a revised and updated edition. Ms. Tondreau has to write approximately 200 more books to catch up to design icon Steven Heller.

As a member of AIGA, the professional association for design, Beth was involved as a mentor in the now-completed AIGA/NY Mentoring Program. She also served on the Board of Directors of AIGA/NY.

In non design-related endeavors, Beth speaks fractured French and equally-fractured Italian and does an enthusiastic Lindy Hop.

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646.623.8672. (Legacy work phone: 212.420.1412)
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My Courses

COMD1127 Type and Media

COMD1127 Type and Media

Foun­da­tion course in ty­pog­ra­phy with em­pha­sis on using type for a mul­ti­ple of in­dus­try re­lated ap­pli­ca­tions rang­ing from print to in­ter­ac­tive. Stu­dents are in­tro­duced to prin­ci­ples of type de­sign and ter­mi­nol­ogy in­clud­ing: vari­a­tions of type struc­ture, anatomy, font usage, grid, lead­ing, kern­ing, track­ing and align­ment. (The avatar is rem­i­nis­cent of the work of the con­cep­tual artist Bar­bara Kruger.)

COMD1127 Type and Media Spring 23

COMD1127 Type and Media Spring 23

Foun­da­tion course in ty­pog­ra­phy with em­pha­sis on using type for a mul­ti­ple of in­dus­try re­lated ap­pli­ca­tions rang­ing from print to in­ter­ac­tive. Stu­dents are in­tro­duced to prin­ci­ples of type de­sign and ter­mi­nol­ogy in­clud­ing: vari­a­tions of type struc­ture, anatomy, font usage, grid, lead­ing, kern­ing, track­ing and align­ment.

COMD1127 D035 Type and Media FALL 2023

COMD1127 D035 Type and Media FALL 2023

Foun­da­tion course in ty­pog­ra­phy with em­pha­sis on using type for a mul­ti­ple of in­dus­try re­lated ap­pli­ca­tions rang­ing from print to in­ter­ac­tive. Stu­dents are in­tro­duced to prin­ci­ples of type de­sign and ter­mi­nol­ogy in­clud­ing: vari­a­tions of type struc­ture, anatomy, font usage, grid, lead­ing, kern­ing, track­ing and align­ment.

COMD4611 Publication Design, OL276, Fall2020

COMD4611 Pub­li­ca­tion De­sign, OL276, Fal­l2020

Prin­ci­ples and prac­tice of pub­li­ca­tion de­sign. Analy­sis, re­search and de­sign of the con­tem­po­rary multi-page pub­li­ca­tion. As­sign­ments lead­ing to the de­sign and pro­duc­tion of a news­pa­per and mag­a­zine (and dis­cus­sion of al­ter­na­tives in the evolv­ing in­dus­try). In­te­gra­tion of de­sign and pro­duc­tion dur­ing class and at home, using soft­ware such as Adobe In­De­sign, Adobe Pho­to­shop and Adobe Il­lus­tra­tor.

COMD1127 Type & Media, Spring 2022

COMD1127 Type & Media, Spring 2022

Foun­da­tion course in ty­pog­ra­phy with em­pha­sis on using type for a mul­ti­ple of in­dus­try re­lated ap­pli­ca­tions rang­ing from print to in­ter­ac­tive. Stu­dents are in­tro­duced to prin­ci­ples of type de­sign and ter­mi­nol­ogy in­clud­ing: vari­a­tions of type struc­ture, anatomy, font usage, grid, lead­ing, kern­ing, track­ing and align­ment.

My Projects

Office of the Provost

Of­fice of the Provost

City Tech’s Source for Aca­d­e­mic Af­fairs In­for­ma­tion

The COMD Faculty Hub

The COMD Fac­ulty Hub

The COMD Hub (IN DE­VEL­OP­MENT) pro­vides sup­port for fac­ulty and staff, in­clud­ing teach­ing, admin, and pro­gram de­vel­op­ment re­sources. Join The COMD Hub to re­ceive es­sen­tial com­mu­ni­ca­tions from the De­part­ment Chair, CLTs, and the City Tech Ad­min­is­tra­tion.

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