School of Art, Media, and Technology

Fellow at Eyebeam seeks illustration students for internship

Internships

Nova Jiang, a fellow at Eyebeam, is looking for student interns from the illustration department. Looking for someone skillful at drawing portraiture to be part of a project in the upcoming…

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Up From the Stacks New Music-Theater by Ben Katchor and Mark Mulcahy

Events

Up From the Stacks New Music-Theater by Ben Katchor and Mark Mulcahy with Ken Maiuri, Dave Trenholm and Brian Marchese. Set in The New York Public Library at Fifth Avenue and…

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MFA Candidate Looking to Collaborate with Parsons Illustration Students

Jobs

MFA Candidate, Teddy Diefenbach, at USC School of Cinematic Arts is looking to collaborate with Parsons Illustration students on The Moonlighters, a videogame being developed as part of an Interactive Media…

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Meet Our Two New Program Directors in AMT!

Faculty News

We are thrilled to announce the appointment of two new program directors in AMT. Juliette Cezzar will be taking over as director of the BFA Communication Design and BFA Design &…

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Illustration Alum wins praise from Anthony Bourdain for her work on No Reservations

Alumni News Student News

Sophia Chang (Illustration ’10) has clearly become a shining star as an Illustrator/Designer for Anthony Bourdain’s travelogue show, No Reservations. Check out this awesome video where Bourdain himself sings her praise….

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Faculty Steven Guarnaccia Mixes Up a Classic in his Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Faculty News

Steven references all the great design gods in his take on the classic tale of Goldilocks. Check out the awesome coverage in T: The New York Times Style Magazine.
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Ben Katchor in The Atlantic

News

Illustration’s own Ben Katchor is featured in the May issue of The Atlantic. This past March, he published The Cardboard Valise, a collection of the weekly comic strip of the same…

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Senior Illustration Student Creates Cover for TimeOut NY

Student News

Senior Thesis faculty Frank Olinsky spearheaded a fantastic project which resulted in this week’s cover for Time Out NY drawn by Illustration senior Jeanine Gleaves (below). In fact, all of the…

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Ben Katchor's new book is receiving praise, coming out March 15th!

Faculty News

The Cardboard Valise is Katchor’s latest collection of comic strips. Published by Pantheon, the book has  bee getting some great press prior to its release on March 15. Newsweek “Katchor is…

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Fall 2010 Illustration Revue

News

The Illustration Program at Parsons The New School presents the Fall 2010 Illustration Revue A evening of critical discourse, handmade pictures and live entertainment! Meet fellow students fact-to-face! Guest critics: Mark…

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Poster Boy for Parsons

Just one month after graduating from Parsons BFA in Illustration, Garrett Pruter’s designs hit the world stage. Pruter was chosen to design this year’s poster for the Macy’s Fourth of July…

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Watch What’s Happening with Parsons in China 2010

Check out the action from our team in China: http://a.parsons.edu/china/china2010/ The Parsons China Summer 2010 Course will mark the fourth year Parsons The New School for Design has collaborated with The…

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Parsons Party and Five School Show!

Parsons’ Five School Show opens tonight with a reception in the Sheila Johnson Design Center. Graduating students and their families are invited to join Parsons Dean Joel Towers as he offers…

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11th Annual Parsons Animation and Digital Film Festival

Come out this Saturday, May 22 to see the BEST OF Parsons Animation and Digital Film. Location: Kellen Auditorium, 66 Fifth Ave., Lobby Screenings at 1PM and 3PM.
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Visual Music Studio Screening

Come and see the results of this semester’s Visual Music Studio, a collaborative studio elective for students from the Parsons Illustration and Communication Design/Design and Technology Programs, and The New School…

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Parsons Hosts AIGA: Type Forecast

FRESH DIALOGUE 26: TYPE FORECAST The future of fonts as we know them is ever-changing. To help prognosticate, we’re collecting some of the industry’s leaders and asking them to explain what’s…

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Leading Change for Social Impact: by Mariana Amatullo

Lectures

Leading Change for Social Impact: Case Studies from Designmatters A Talk by Mariana Amatullo from Designmatters, Art Center College of Design Mariana Amatullo, director of the Designmatters department at Art Center,…

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Thicker than Water: 2010 BFA Illustration Thesis Show

Parsons’ School of Art, Media and Technology presents thesis work by the BFA Program in Illustration’s class of 2010. The exhibition will be on view from May 10 – May 14,…

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Free V Magazine Digital Subscriptions for Parsons Students

AMT’s friends at Visionaire have a treat for any and all Parsons students: a free one-year subscription to the digital version of their fabulous V and/or VMAN magazines. Click here for…

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Parsons Hosts AIGA Talk on Design/Advertising April 22

AIGA/NY: DESIGN/ADVERTISING What’s the difference between design and advertising? Is that a relevant question today? Do our clients care? Should we? Can a design studio dabble in advertising? What does it…

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This program cultivates students' vision and prepares them to translate it into a wide range of traditional and emerging media. The curriculum emphasizes visual thinking, originality, art and design history and theory, and awareness of social and cultural concerns.

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