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Students Join Mashable.com Vine Challenge
Mashable.com’s weekly Vine Challenge produces a frenzy of infectious animation snippets on topics like creepy fantasy creatures, Jack-O-Lanterns, playing with food, and talking cars. The more sophomoric the topic, often the more sophisticated the response in the form of six-second animated, blooper style shorts. Illustration students easily met the time limit to demonstrate: how a…
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Portrait of Christine: not overdoing the details
It’s so well executed: the bright-eyed sideward gaze and razor thin eyebrows. Teal-colored nails the right degree garish. A hidden expression behind a fantasy novel and an overall noir feel. “It was a process of learning when to stop, so as not to overdo certain details,” says Hiu Lim of her “Portrait of Christine,” created…
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The masters reloaded
Holding a teddy bear hostage while flaunting an arcade machine gun and goggles may be a geek’s mojo. It’s also a characterization of video game-obsessive Hyoung, a close friend of student illustrator Giancarlo Alicea. “Hyoung has a vivid imagination and a wry wit. He’s a happy guy who is also serious and driven,” says Alicea…
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Vanishing Ethiopian Tribes
In January 2014 Trupal Pandya and Alexander Papakonstadinou, fourth semester photography students, traveled to Ethiopia to document the vanishing tribes of the Omo Valley. The tribes’ way of life is stressed by hunting restrictions (tourists can hunt game, tribal members cannot). Soon a new dam will flood the valley as well. “I was working with…
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Albrink and Arnold’s art of matchmaking
It can be hard to tell what a couple in a classical painting might be thinking. We do know what their artful counterparts have in mind in Lynn Albrink and Laura Arnold’s replicas for their Match.com ad campaign. It’s either: “I really like this girl,” or “How do I get her to the altar?” or…
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