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  • Carnaval, Culebra, Encanto: Alexa Rivera Explores Puerto Rican Culture in Textiles

    August 7, 2022
    Rachel Ellner

    Alexa Rivera, a recent Textile/Surface Design graduate, has created a collection of designs inspired by Puerto Rico. Her work combines the island’s Taino culture dating back to before Columbus arrived, local architecture, and florals, to beautifully merge history and textile design. Rivera ’22 AAS, had never created something that told a story about her culture,…

  • Pastry Shops, Book Stores and The New Yorker: Welcome to Prof. Jenny Kroik

    July 15, 2022
    Rachel Ellner

    This fall, incoming Illustration professor Jenny Kroik will bring not only her ongoing successful career to the core IL-264 course in visual interpretation. She also brings significant teaching experience. Working mainly in watercolor, she has three New Yorker covers published. Prof. Kroik’s credits also include the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Town & Country, Time,…

  • From Client to Designer to Laser, A Quick Wash, and Custom Clothing Appears

    June 26, 2022
    Rachel Ellner

    High quality custom clothing may cost consumers more initially, but it stays in style far longer – maybe forever. With today’s computer and laser technology, even sophisticated and unusual designs move quickly from the minds of customers and designers to finished, long-lasting products. “Sustainability isn’t just one thing. It’s a change in your mindset to…

  • Conceptual Display Advertises a Conceptual Exhibit

    June 1, 2022
    Rachel Ellner

    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…

  • Variety in Designs and Materials Mark the Work of This Year’s Jewelry Design Grads

    Variety in Designs and Materials Mark the Work of This Year’s Jewelry Design Grads
    May 23, 2022
    Rachel Ellner

    From a class that began during COVID lockdown with 18 students, eight are graduating this week, making it through the Jewelry Design program with “perseverance, dedication and a whole lot of talent,” says Prof. Michael Coan. The students will be entering a new world, with greater demands for more “personalized” jewelry, says Prof. Coan. That’s…

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