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From Gropius to Cintiq
It started with just showing dad around the workplace. But then Tom Shefelman, 86, visiting from Austin TX, sat down to get the feel of one of the new Cintiq stations. The drawing technology, new to FIT, comes with a pen to draw and manipulate images on a touch screen. A mangy dog and a cross-eyed…
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Raves for Cintiq keep coming
It’s not a new disco, a cutting edge designer or the stylist from the Hunger Games. It’s a revolutionary technology in the drawing industry. “Think of it as an interactive iPad connected to a computer,” says C.J. Yeh, professor of communications design. “You use a special ‘pen’ to draw or manipulate images directly on a…
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In Meagan Meli’s portfolio: A Forest Princess, Cyclops & Valentine
Meagan Meli’s creations contain a potpourri of themes, imagery and cultural references. Her illustrations can be playfully dark and scary in an Edward Gorey way. Yet no design elements are left stranded. They relate to each other by way of complementary colors, placement and equal doses of quirkiness. There’s the juxtaposition of the human heart…
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Contents of Pandora’s box re-captured
There are two garish babes bursting with vanity and a gloating cross-legged, primed prima dona. There are the furious fat spider, a he-man who boasts, and a lecherous pair of wide-open mouths sporting minks’ teeth. An ominous, famished figure sits eerily among them while a lazy daydreamer lies pathetic and inert. Jealousy, vanity, famine, greed and rage are on display…