B.F.A. (Applied Art) Publishing Design Syllabus - Mumbai University
This is the University of Mumbai syllabus for the B.F.A. (Applied Art), the Revised Course approved under Item No. 4.30 and in force from the academic year 2004-2005. It is old, and it is current: the University still examines this scheme, and the subjects below are the ones set in its Summer 2026 examinations. It is the only B.F.A. (Applied Art) syllabus the University has published.
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Syllabus for Publishing Design
What the University sets
- Studio Practicals per Academic Year: 90 Hours
- Paper: 80 Marks. Duration: 10 Hours
- Assignments per Academic Year: 06 Term Work: 20 Marks
The focus
The subject is aimed at developing design skills to explore various design strategies to design Books, Periodicals, Reports etc. Understanding of grid system laying out the components, organising the visual balance between images and text sensitivity towards typography are the key factors of this subject
What is taught
- Composing Text and adding Images in order to create a good looking page
- Alignments - Drop letters
- Various Column layouts. Grid System. Balance of Image and Text on a page
- Various parts of a Book
- Types of Books - Education - Leisure Reading - Comics - Utility stationary (Diary, Schedules etc.) - Corporate Media pubescens (Annual Report, House Magazines, In-flight Magazines etc.)
- Designing - Page - Book jackets - Book - Bookmarks
- Designing - Masthead for Newspaper/Magazine - Slugs - Column heads
Term work
Term Work shall consist of at least 06 assignments covering the given syllabus, duly performed, completed and graded, carrying a weightage of 20 marks Eradent must gain at least 40% cof the total marks allotted for the Term Work of the academic year, in order make hini/her eligible to appear for the examination.
The University published this syllabus as scanned pages, with no machine-readable text. The wording below is transcribed from those pages and checked against a second, independent reading of the same scan. The PDF above is the University's own page, unaltered, and is the authority wherever the two differ.
The complete syllabus
This subject is cut from the University of Mumbai's own B.F.A. (Applied Art) syllabus document. The whole document is here:
The document ends with a Bibliography for the whole degree rather than a reading list per subject. Its last page — the list of books, after the periodicals and annuals — is missing from every copy that can be reached while the University's own site is down, so it is not reproduced here.