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Conceptual Display Advertises a Conceptual Exhibit
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…
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FIT Experience Guides Dahlia Ferrera
When Dahlia Ferrera, ’20, talks about her experiences as a Visual Presentation and Exhibition Design student, it’s never fully in the past tense. Delve deeper and you learn why. So much of what she learned, she draws on in her day-to-day professional life. While student VPED projects are often large-scale and awe-inspiring, it’s exciting to…
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Visual Presentation Lab Rises to Pandemic Challenges
Here’s what happens to a well-equipped workshop that not all students can’t get to during a pandemic: New instructional videos to aid students confined to home; new ways of creating those videos; extra attention for the students who need to be there. Workshops and labs across the FIT campus have faced challenges with different approaches.…
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Prescient Design for What a Pandemic Evokes
“Washing hands and disinfecting groceries are vital right now,” says Visual Presentation and Exhibition Design student Alvina Alex, ’20. “Wiping doorknobs and surfaces has become an important task. But what happens when all the disinfecting products are missing from the shelves? Dr. Bronner’s to the rescue.” Alex is reflecting back on the Dr. Bronner’s Citrus…
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A Sustainable Design Wave From Arch & Hook
Three energetic eco-conscious students from the Visual Presentation and Exhibition Design program designed and created a window display on Seventh Avenue to feature Arch & Hook hangers and inform the public about FIT’s commitment to sustainability. The window display can be seen from the outside of the Pomerantz Art & Design Center. Francesca Moy, Tenzin Sangmo,…