Category: Art and Design
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Instructor Spotlight: Josef Zutelgte
Professor Josef Zutelgte has been teaching in the Fine Arts Department at FIT since 2000, drawing, 3-D design and sculpture. He was born in Germany, attended the Westfaelische Wilhelms University and the Kunstakademie Muenster/Duesseldorf and received an MFA in 1983. After moving to New York in 1986, he studied at The City College of New York…
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Instructor Spotlight: Eric Ramirez
Prof. Eric Ramirez is the Chairperson and Assistant Professor in the Textile Surface Design Department. He is a graduate of the TSD Major at the Fashion Instituite of Technology with an AAS and BFA Degree. He designs in various areas of the textile and related fields, especially textiles prints for fashion apparel and home furnishings, such…
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Instructor Spotlight: Bing Hu
Prof. Hu is from the city of Shanghai in the People’s Republic of China. She graduated from the Shanghai Teachers college in 1983, just three years after Chairman Mao’s death and China’s Culture Revolution ended. In 1986 she came to the United States, where she received a merit scholarship at the Art Students League of New York…
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Instructor Spotlight: Carole Daner
Professor Carole Daner teaches in both the Accessories Design Department and the Precollege Programs at FIT. The courses that Professor Daner teaches in the Precollege Program focuses on learning to design, sew and construct handbags, tech and small leather goods and accessories. Professor Daner teaches the following courses: HSX 103: Leather Sewing Intensive – Precollege Workshop Class HLD…
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Farewell FIT
No exaggeration, my heart hurts knowing that my summer classes at FIT are over. These were easily the most interesting and independent 3 weeks I’ve ever experienced. In class today, we finished up our magazines and presented our final work to each other. I’m so proud of my magazine, but so many of my classmates did…
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Week 2
I can’t BELIEVE how quickly time flies! I’m already halfway through my experience at FIT, and each day proves to be more exciting than the previous. As I mentioned in my last post, I take the Magazine Design class. Last week, we worked on perfecting our covers. When I say perfecting, I mean perfecting; I can’t…