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Zion Ozeri’s photos capture Jewish diversity 3,000 years post exodus
Americans, and even American Jews, are used to thinking of Jewish families as well-educated strivers living a comfortable life in a major city. But for many if not most Jewish communities around the globe, the look is different even if the strivings are what we would expect. Photographer Zion Ozeri, Photography ‘78, knows that better…
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Mastery of materials and design: Yves Mervin-Leroy
M. C. Escher made an appearance at the Fashion Design Graduating Student Exhibition, courtesy of graduating senior Yves Mervin-Leroy. Leather pieces from Yves’ collection showed the interlocking design patterns strongly evocative of Escher’s work. But it was his mastery of complex leather and textile technology that dazzled the online audience. Yves presented his collection to…
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Car Seats and Eveningwear: The World of Detroit’s Ashley Harris
After combining an FIT AAS degree in fashion design with a BS from Western Michigan University in fashion apparel design, a minor in general business, and her innate design sense, Ashley Harris is making it big … in Detroit. She’s a product engineer at Magna International, designing car seat upholstery, while running her own up-and-coming…
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Red, White and Blue Student Backpacks Resonate
Each year FIT’s United College Employees union sponsors a Constitution Day postcard competition. The goal of the students’ designs is to illuminate a section of the U.S. Constitution in a contemporary context. In 2014 Graphic Design student Sooji Lee’s first-place image referenced mass shootings in schools. At that point there had been 387 of them…