In The Press: Paul Shaw in the Wall Street Journal
Paul Shaw, faculty member in both the Art History and BFA Advertising and Graphic Design Departments, has had his book Helvetica and the New York City Subway System (MIT Press, 2011) reviewed in the Wall Street Journal. Described as a, “typographic detective story [that] manages to be a history of the New York subway, a [...]
What’s In Store: Stories About Dick & Jane, Bike People and Storytelling
In and Out with Dick and Jane: A Loving Parody (Abrams Image, 2011) by Ross MacDonald and James Victore: For this short book of social satire, BFA Advertising and Graphic Design Department faculty member James Victore teams up with illustrator Ross MacDonald to put the old-school children’s primer characters Dick and Jane through the paces [...]
An Exchange with Sol LeWitt
Distinguished alumnus Sol LeWitt (1953 Illustration) died in 2007, but that isn’t stopping a group of SVA students from carrying on conversations with the conceptual artist. As part of an assignment by Art History Department faculty member Raphy Sarkissian, students were asked to, “Create a linear, abstract drawing in response to a specific work of [...]
