Tag: Bil Donovan

  • Designer boxes are refashioned in “Thinking Outside The Box” exhibit

    Designer boxes are refashioned in “Thinking Outside The Box” exhibit

    More than 20 repurposed designer boxes from Gucci to Prada and Tiffany are transformed into a mix of fashion, style, and art by Illustration professor Leslie Cober-Gentry.  The canvases were created in several mixed mediums. Uplifting messages within the works heighten the vibes of the original packaging. Her series is now on exhibit at the…

  • Ode to Jianrong Lin’s “Momentum” series

    Ode to Jianrong Lin’s “Momentum” series

    “I think human bodies look best when in motion,” says Illustrator Jianrong Lin ’16, of “Momentum,” his series of athletes in the heat of competition. Lin’s work evokes images depicted on ancient Greek urns. “What men or gods are these?” one might be inspired to ask, as the poet John Keats did of the “mad pursuit”…

  • AIDS fundraiser: moving miniatures for sale

    Creating art in the midst of the AIDS crisis was a cathartic response to a disease of enormous tragedy. One especially affecting large group display of such work is “Postcards from the Edge,” organized by Visual AIDS in New York City. Like the early AIDS quilt, each contributor’s work is deemed to be of equal…

  • Donovan @ The St. Regis Dior Suite

    “Dear fashion illustration aficionados—I have been waiting for this renovation,” announced Illustration professor Bil Donovan via email.  The “renovation” just happened to be the Dior Suite at the New York St. Regis. “I was ecstatic to have the opportunity to do a fashion illustration in watercolor representing  a historical timeline of Dior Couture,” said Donovan, the…

  • Fashion illustrators meet-up @ the Society of Illustrators

    On May 21 at the Society of Illustrators, FIT Illustration profs. Bil Donovan, John Jay Cabuay and Carlos Aponte went on a motion-filled painting and drawing spree and provided commentary of their work. As an engaged audience of fellow FIT faculty, students from FIT, Parsons and SUV, as well as curious fashionistas looked on, the…