FIT School of Art and Design

Category: Visual Presentation Exhibition Design

  • The spider, the pig, and the child in all of us: How FIT students spun a web for Charlotte

    For the past month, people walking by FIT on 7th Avenue between 27th and 28th Streets have been caught in Charlotte’s Web. Students in Prof. Glenn Sokoli’s Advanced Store Window Design class transformed the Colin Burch Window in the Pomerantz Art and Design Center into pages of the children’s classic by E.B. White, complete with…

  • Conceptual Display Advertises a Conceptual Exhibit

    How does a team of four Spatial Experience Design students create a window display inspired by an artist whose work is elaborate, unfamiliar, and otherworldly? With imagination, skill, and in this unusual case, guidance from the artist himself. The assignment for the students’ Product Presentation class required the design and construction of a large-scale display that…

  • Paintings by Prof. Anne Finkelstein on Every Wi-Fi Kiosk in NYC

    Ten paintings by Visual Presentation and Exhibition Design professor Anne Finkelstein are on display until February 27 on every LinkNYC screen in New York City – over 1,800 in all. The project serves as an example in wayfinding, a concept she teaches in her 6th semester BFA class: Placemaking, Wayfinding and Environmental Graphics (VP 305).…

  • FIT Senior Sarai Maman Wins Competition, Shoots for the Moon

    FIT Senior Sarai Maman Wins Competition, Shoots for the Moon

    Landing on the moon requires more than technical skill. You also need cooperation, perseverance, creativity and the ability to dream, says Sarai Maman, ’22, a winner of the 27th annual Planning and Visual Education Partnership (PAVE) Award.  Her work is “a perfect showing of what students in the Spatial Experience Design program can do combining…

  • Cowleidoscope Joins the Cow Parade!

    This summer Visual Presentation and Exhibition Design students created “Cowleidoscope,” a giant, dreamy blue and pink cow with magnificent iridescent wings. It’s part of the NYC CowParade, which this year benefits God’s Love We Deliver, a New York City-based charity that prepares and delivers meals for people living with severe illnesses. “It gave students an…