Northfield School — Outcomes
Visual concept preview of the Education Course template's Outcomes page: States exactly what the school does and does not award, reports what graduates go on to do, and shows final sheets from recent cohorts. The sections below are a non-interactive composition of open-registry blocks.
The school issues its own certificate of completion. It is not a degree, and no outside body awards it. What it records is that you finished six modules in order and stood by your work in front of a room.
Every graduate is asked the same three questions a year after they finish, and the answers go on the register. The register is the only outcome claim the school makes.
It is a small school. Read the figures as a description of forty-two cohorts, not as a forecast for yours.
About half go into or back into studios, usually into a role with type somewhere in the title.
A third stay where they are and become the person their team asks about type.
The rest freelance, teach, or start something small. Several now run critique groups of their own.
- 4 in 5 finish all six modules in the term they started
- 42 cohorts taught since the school opened in 2012
- 412 graduates on the register, across 18 countries
Figures from the alumni register, updated each term and published whether or not they improve.
Nothing here is a placement rate. It is a record of what people told us after the fact, kept because the alternative is a brochure.
- graduates on the register
- 412
- countries the register spans
- 18
- say the critique was the most useful part
- 87%
- changed role or scope within a year
- 2 in 3
We have hired four Northfield graduates. They arrive able to take a critique without flinching, which is rarer and more useful than knowing what a sidebearing is.
Final sheets from the last four cohorts, hung in the order they were made. Every brief is fictional and every piece was set, printed, and defended inside the twenty-two weeks.
The archive is open to anyone enrolled, and to graduates for as long as they want it.
A bilingual timetable, set for a station concourse.
A botanical index, reset from scratch and rebound.
A canteen menu, held to one size and one weight.
Wayfinding for a fictional set of swimming baths.
Every graduate rates the term a year later. These are the most recent six, unedited.
The certificate has never once come up. The folder of critique notes has come up in every interview.
I now argue about leading with confidence and evidence. My team finds this only slightly worse than before.
Self-paced took me eleven months instead of one term, and the written critiques were worth the wait.
Module two changed how I look at every sign in the street. That is not marketing; it is mildly inconvenient.
I wanted more on lettering and less on grids. I was wrong about that, but I did want it.
Four years later I still set a text block the way Module three taught me to. Nothing has beaten it yet.
The archive, the graduate critique, and the register stay open to you after the term ends. That is what finishing the six modules buys.