Category Archives: Current Students

Reminder: Important Class Schedule Changes for Nov. 24th

In observance of the Thanksgiving Holiday, the university will be closed Thursday, November 27 through Sunday, November 30.

There will be class schedule changes during the week of November 24. These changes are necessary in order to fulfill the number of class sessions during the academic semester.

PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING CHANGES:

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25
Tuesday classes will not meet. Instead, any class that regularly meets on Thursdays will meet on Tuesday, November 25 at the regular times and locations.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26
Classes that start before 4:00 p.m. will not meet, which means NO ILLUSTRATION DEPARTMENT COURSES WILL BE RUNNING.  However, all classes starting at 4:00 p.m. or later will meet.


**PLEASE CONFIRM CLASS SCHEDULES WITH YOUR INSTRUCTORS**

From the Inbox: Illuxcon

Current student Chantal Bennett passed along information about this exciting event…

Illuxcon, in Altoona, PA, is the first and only convention dedicated exclusively to fantastic illustration art. IlluxCon is intended to be a symposium, rather than a typical convention. The primary objective is to create a space where close personal interactions can take place between artists, their fans, collectors and students of the genre. There will be an original art show as well as demonstrations, panels and artist booths.

Guests include Boris Vallejo, Julie Bell, Jon Foster, Stephen Hickman, Ruth Sanderson, Bob Eggleton, Rebecca Guay, Tiffany Prothero, Charles Vess, Eric Fortune, Omar & Sheila Rayyan, Michael Whelan, Greg Hildebrandt, and many more.

Also, the greatest part of this conference is that the student passes are FREE! The passes entitle you to go to the entire conference, not just selected days.

If you are interested in carpooling to attend the conference, get in touch with Chantal to coordinate.

From the Inbox: “Dangers of Debt” Cartoon Contest

Timothy Marvin, a grassroots organizer with the Consumers Union passed along this contest opportunity…

The Consumers Union “Dangers of Debt” Cartoon Contest site is live now! Anyone 18-25 can go upload their submissions. The deadline to submit is November 3rd. The grand prize winner gets $1,000 and whatever exposure is provided through our campaign and media outreach.

Our panel of celebrity judges is made up of:

Tom Gammill is a TV writer whose credits include Saturday Night Live, Late Night with David Letterman, Seinfeld and Monk.  He’s been a consulting producer at The Simpsons since 1998.
He also has a comic strip that runs weekly in the Pasadena Independent and other small weekly newspapers.

Jen Sorenson is the creator of the award-winning alternative political comic strip Slowpoke.

Lalo Alcaraz is a Mexican-American cartoonist and multimedia humorist now best known for his daily syndicated comic strip La Cucaracha.

Please check out the website and cartoons. Online voting to select the finalists begins November 6th.

Check out the official rules here and the official homepage for the contest here.

Design a bumper sticker, rock the vote…

Good Magazine recently posted this cool opportunity.  It combines activism AND creativity!  Here are the official details:

The bumper sticker is one of the most ubiquitous and pithy forms of political expression. For the 2006 midterm elections we asked you to create an original bumper sticker on the subject of voting. Your submissions blew us away. So we’re bringing Project 001 back for the 2008 presidential election. You’re invited to get involved. Guidelines and submissions below.

We’ve updated the original Project 001 text below, and we’ll add new submissions to those from the Project’s original 2006 run.

the OBJECTIVE
To get people to vote (or at least think about it)

the ASSIGNMENT
Create a bumper sticker

the PARAMETERS
3 x 9 inches, full color

the REQUIREMENTS
The word “vote” must appear on your bumper sticker. As long as that word is included, everything else is up to you.

the DIRECTIONS
Please email your art in JPEG, PDF, or Adobe Illustrator format to project001@goodinc.com, with the subject heading: ‘PROJECT No. 1.’ Make sure to include your name as you would like it to appear in the credits. We will feature submissions here until Election Day 2008.

ABOUT THIS PROJECT:
This is the first in a series of what we call GOOD Projects, in which we challenge GOOD readers to come up with an idea and share it with the world.

There’s a grand tradition of posters being created and posted in the streets to support political causes, movements, and candidates. Unfortunately, with everyone hanging out at the mall or watching TV these days, there aren’t a lot of opportunities left to communicate through posters in the public square (except for advertising, but that’s a whole other thing.

But there’s another tradition of free expression that is still alive: the humble bumper sticker. From my child is an honor student to support our troops, Americans have been using their cars to get messages out for a long time. And if you’ve ever been stuck in traffic, you’ve had time to contemplate quite a few messages being broadcast from the suv in front of you.

This project is simple: a bumper sticker. The message is simpler: vote. Actually, you can take some liberties with the message (as designer James Victore has done, above), as long as you include the word “vote.” Just to keep things fair, we’ve set a rule on how big the sticker should be: 3 by 9 inches.

Use whatever tools you want to make your artwork. Contributions will be viewable on-and downloadable from-this page, so anyone can print out a sticker to put on his or her car. If everything works out, somebody will see that sticker and think twice about voting the next time the midterm elections roll around.

We’ll post submissions until November 4, 2008.

You can see some of the other submissions from this year and from 2006 at the official website.

Parsons/Poketo Wallet Jam Results!!


Through a partnership created with POKETO, Parsons Illustration held a wildly successful wallet jam on Sunday. The six-hour event yielded more than 60 entries for our Poketo competition. Judging of the ever-so-tasty submissions took place the next day with Angie and Ted from Poketo, American Illustration’s Mark Heflin and our own departmental chair, Steven Guarnaccia.

POKETO designs limited edition art products, accessories, apparel and decor, taking art off gallery walls and making it part of everyday life.  Congrats to our winners: Sophia Chang, Stella Jiyeun Lee, Shu Okada, Emmanuel Tavares and Chris Yip! And thanks to everyone who participated!

Information session for Make Music New York 2009

Make Music New York is a music festival like no other. Taking place on a single day, June 21st, last year’s event featured over 3,200 musicians giving 870 free musical performances in every genre, on streets, sidewalks, and parks throughout the City. Performances included 69 punk bands on Governors Island, a NYC Opera and NY Philharmonic block party, Roberta Flack singing with middle school students in Central Park, Bollywood Karaoke, and hundreds more.

Everything is free. Everything is outdoors. Anyone can sign up to make music.

For the last two years, Parsons students have designed the Make Music posters and programs (printed by Metro New York and amNewYork newspapers), the visual elements for Time Out New York’s dedicated MMNY website, and fliers and postcards for some individual concerts. This year, they’re looking for more than just new designs — they want proposals for radically new ways of promoting the event, that fit its outdoor, do-it-yourself, absurdly cheap spirit.

Aaron Friedman, creator and organizer of the festival, will be coming to Parsons next week to present this year’s project, and to show examples of the kinds of design interventions they’re looking for.

Thursday, October 2nd
2 p.m.
Illustration Library
Room 805, 2 W. 13th

We hope to see you all there. This is a tremendous opportunity for innovation, creativity, and publicity!

[Image created by Danielle MacIndoe]

Last Minute: Mentoring Opportunity Info Session

Parsons SPACE (Parsons’ Summer, Pre-College Academy & Continuing Education) is recruiting for student mentors for our Parsons Scholars Program.  This position also offers teaching assistant opportunities in our Academy courses and the chance to make a difference in young artists lives.

Mentoring Information Session
Thursday, September 25
6pm
New School Orientation Room
2 West 13th Street, lobby
RSVP: academy@newschool.edu

Yael Levy photographs Tanzania

From the Illustration Inbox

We got a message from current Illustration Student Yael Levy, who worked this summer with Circle of Health International, which is an international NGO dedicated to building the capacity of women’s health professionals in crisis settings. One of COHI’s ongoing projects is a partnership with a local women’s health organization called FLEMAFA in Kisarawe, Tanzania.

Yael created a photo blog to document her experiences in Tanzania.  Check it out here.

Also, Yael has submitted some pictures to a photography competition, part of it is judged by the organizers and part by public popularity.  You can vote for her work here and see more of her images on her Flickr page.