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SUNY Chancellor Award winner Darlene Levy-Birnbaum
Definition of SUNY Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence: “A system-level honor conferred to acknowledge and provide system-wide recognition for consistently superior professional achievement and to encourage the ongoing pursuit of excellence.” Definition of 2015 SUNY Chancellor Award Winner for Excellence in Classified Service at Fashion Institute of Technology: Darlene Levy-Birnbaum! At the FIT staff luncheon on…
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Sustainable Kornit printing powers student competition
Striking colors and innovative fabric designs, all addictive to the eye, filled the room. The students’ excitement was palpable as well. At yesterday’s announcement of the winners of the Kornit Design Challenge, Textile/Surface Design seniors shared their perceptions and spoke of the virtues of digital textile printing. The Kornit prints out a digital image directly on almost…
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Joe Zee reflects on FIT’s graduating fashion design talent
“These people…I don’t know who they are, but I know they’ve traveled from four corners of the world to come to FIT. “They blow me away with their talent, and if that’s what they are doing at the school level… I can’t wait to see what they do when they actually get…
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The grandeur of Maggie Norris’ couture Easter egg
If anyone could design a couture Easter egg, it’s New Orleans born Maggie Norris. Maggie’s Rosebud Corset Egg (giant, bejeweled, and red velvet covered), is inspired by Peter Carl Fabergé’s Imperial Rosebud Egg. There’s no downside as suffered by Fabergé’s last royal customer, Tsar Nicholas II. Maggie’s egg will in fact, benefit two charities. Watch here the hatching of…
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Students Join Mashable.com Vine Challenge
Mashable.com’s weekly Vine Challenge produces a frenzy of infectious animation snippets on topics like creepy fantasy creatures, Jack-O-Lanterns, playing with food, and talking cars. The more sophomoric the topic, often the more sophisticated the response in the form of six-second animated, blooper style shorts. Illustration students easily met the time limit to demonstrate: how a…