FIT School of Art and Design

Author: Rachel Ellner

  • At ELLE.com the experience makes the magazine

    Styles may change, but online content is what’s really on the runway at ELLE.com, one of the most visited online versions of a major fashion publication.  “Magazines aren’t what they were 10 years ago–it’s now an experience,” Keith Pollock, Editorial Director of ELLE.com told students of Faces & Places class last week.  It’s virtual engagement that Pollock and his…

  • Natasha Melo helping us locate lipstick, eyeliner & more

    When multiple varieties of lipsticks, perfumes and eyeliners at the cosmetics store start looking like a mirage, store owners might want to contact  Natasha Melo for a redesign. The VEPD student is the first-place winner of the 2011 Planning and Visual Education Partnership competition (PAVE).  The competition was judged on  store layout and designs of the…

  • Along the Hudson

    These days, Professor Kingsley Parker of Communication Design,  views stretches of the Hudson River from the window of a commuter train on his way to and from FIT.  Represented in a 63-foot-long installation of sailors’  navigational routes overlaid on tarps, are scenes of life Parker has observed along the River. His installation, “Up River,  now on…

  • A big mention for Oded Hirsch

    “Crafty, nostalgic, highly inefficient yet still somehow emancipatory and sublime––provides an apt metaphor for the exhibition” — is how art critic Kaelen Wilson-Goldie describes Oded Hirsch’s  bridge, the center piece in his video “Tochka.” Hirsch, a staff member in the Photography department, received favorable mention for the video in ArtForum, the  international magazine that specializes…

  • Watch it here! The fine art of Stephanie DeManuelle

    “The filmmaker shows the way artists think and work to overcome obstacles and get past their struggles. Artists work their way through things…It verifies what art students are doing,” – Stephanie DeManuelle, Chair of Fine Arts On Monday November 14, a film screening of  “The Art of Stephanie DeManuelle,” was held in a lecture room packed…