October 27, 2009
As part of the promotional efforts for season four of the cable series Dexter, the Showtime channel commissioned alumni Kyle Baker (1986 Cartooning) and Andres Martinez (MFA 2007 Illustration as Visual Essay) to work on several short animations featuring the show’s title character. Baker and Martinez are both interviewed in a Web video that goes [...]
October 26, 2009
Design School Confidential: Extraordinary Class Projects from International Design Schools, Colleges and Institutes, by Steven Heller and Lita Talarico (co-chairs, MFA Design Department): A compendium of 53 design-program class projects from around the world (including SVA, of course) that brings the reader inside the design-education process, from assignment to finished result (Rockport Publishers). Upon Secrecy, [...]
October 23, 2009
As the passing of pop icon Michael Jackson continues to reverberate throughout the culture, a recent work by BFA Visual and Critical Studies Department faculty member Josh Azzarella has gotten swept along with the media tide. Untitled #100 (Fantasia) takes Jackson’s long-form Thriller video and strips out the song, the star, the dancing and every [...]
