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John Jay Cabuay Pictures What Kids Ask Ruby Bridges
Iconic activist Ruby Bridges has a lot to say about civil rights. A six-year-old second grader in 1960, she was the first and only Black student at William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans. In fact, she was the only student, period. The day she arrived, surrounded by federal marshals, parents withdrew their 500 children…
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Professors’ FIT invite wins prestigious design award
Communication Design Assistant Chair CJ Yeh and Professor Christie Shin won two of the 143 awards in the 2016 Communication Arts Typography Award competition. As is customary to say in this election year, “That’s UUUGE!” The CA Award is one of the most prestigious design competitions in the world. The professors’ winning design for the all-type design…
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Goodbye Snapshots to Dean Arbuckle
Dean Arbuckle is leaving us. Her title will be longer, but she’ll always be known simply and elegantly as the “dean” to us. By August 2016 she’ll be working with FIT’s President Joyce Brown. We know her heart will always be with the School of Art and Design and ours with her. Here is a…
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A book fair for devotees of art and design
Last weekend’s Designers and Books Fair brought a capacity crowd of students, faculty, and a great many other design devotees for book browsing and presentations. It was a star-studded Art and Design School affair. The Who’s Who and the Who‐Will be Who’s of the publishing design world were in attendance. Attendees came to leaf through and…
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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…