Category Archives: Illustration Faculty

Illustration Professor, Nora Krug, releases book: Belonging/Heimat

Belonging (US title) / Heimat (foreign title)

A 280-page illustrated and hand-lettered visual memoir on a German family’s memory of WWII.

Belonging wrestles with the idea of Heimat, the German word for the place that first forms us, where the sensibilities and identity of one generation pass on to the next. In this highly inventive visual memoir—equal parts graphic novel, family scrapbook, and investigative narrative—Nora Krug draws on letters, archival material, flea market finds, and photographs to attempt to understand what it means to belong. A wholly original record of a German woman’s struggle with the weight of catastrophic history, Belonging is also a reflection on the responsibility that we all have as inheritors of our countries’ pasts.

Fall 2018 release in the following countries: USA (Scribner), UK (Particular Books), Germany (Penguin Hardcover), Holland (Balans), France (Gallimard). 2019 and 2020 release in the following countries: Norway (Spartacus), Sweden (Norstedts), Spain (Salamandra), Brazil (Companhia das Letras), Italy (Stile Libero), and Denmark (Gads).

 

Dixon Place presents CAROUSEL – With Illustration Faculty R. Sikoryak

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Cartoon Slide Shows and Picture Performances

Hosted by R. Sikoryak

Featuring
Maëlle Doliveux (Hollywood Freeway Chickens)
Felipe Galindo  (No Man Is a Desert Island)
James Godwin (The Flatiron Hex)
Glenn Head  (Chicago)     
Carolita Johnson (The New Yorker)
John Mejias (PAPING)
Andrea Tsurumi  (Cake Vs. Pie)
M. Sweeney Lawless (@Specky4Eyes)

With graphic narratives, gag cartoons, shadow puppets, and much more.

Wednesday, December 9, 2015 at 7:30 pm
Dixon Place, 161A Chrystie Street (btwn Rivington & Delancey), NYC

Tickets:
$12 (advance), $15 (at the door), $10 (students/seniors) or TDF

Advance tickets & info: www.dixonplace.org    (212) 219-0736

(The Dixon Place Lounge is open before, during, and after the show. All proceeds directly support DP’s mission and artists.)

New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium – December 1, 2015

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Lauren Redniss‘s work combines reporting, historical research, artwork and design. She will speak about her new book, Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future.

Lauren Redniss is the author of Century Girl: 100 years in the Life of Doris Eaton Travis, Last Living Star of the Ziegfeld Follies and Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout, a finalist for the National Book Award. She has been a fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars & Writers at the New York Public Library, the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and Artist-in-Residence at the American Museum of Natural History.  Her new book, Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future,was published by Random House in 2015.


WHEN

December 1, 2015 at 7pm

WHERE

The 137th meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2015 at 7pm at Parsons The New School for Design, 2 West 13th Street, in the Bark Room (off the lobby). Free and open to the public.

 

Faculty Lauren Redniss’ Book Events for THUNDER & LIGHTNING: Weather Past, Present, Future

Product Thunder & Lightning: Weather Past, Present, Future

October 29th, 2015 @ 6:30pm

American Museum of Natural History

Central Park West & 79th St, New York, NY 10024

Lauren Redniss, author of Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, debuts her new title. Developed while she was an artist in residence at the Museum,Thunder & Lighting: Weather, Past, Present, Future brings her unique style to a journey from the driest desert on Earth to an island in the Arctic and beyond. She considers the danger and beauty of weather, how it informs our history and the world’s religions, and the forces that drive these meteorological events.

October 30, 7pm 

Book Court

163 Court St, Cobble Hill, Brooklyn

 

 

About Thunder & Lightning:

Weather is the very air we breathe—it shapes our daily lives and alters the course of history. In Thunder & Lightning, Lauren Redniss tells the story of weather and humankind through the ages.

This wide-ranging work roams from the driest desert on earth to a frigid island in the Arctic, from the Biblical flood to the defeat of the Spanish Armada. Redniss visits the headquarters of the National Weather Service, recounts top-secret rainmaking operations during the Vietnam War, and examines the economic impact of disasters like Hurricane Katrina. Drawing on extensive research and countless interviews, she examines our own day and age, from our most personal decisions—Do I need an umbrella today?—to the awesome challenges we face with global climate change.

Redniss produced each element of Thunder & Lightning: the text, the artwork, the covers, and every page in between. She created many of the images using the antiquated printmaking technique copper plate photogravure etching. She even designed the book’s typeface.

The result is a book unlike any other: a spellbinding combination of storytelling, art, and science.

If you’re interested in purchasing her book, click here!

 

Figure Drawing Fridays Are Back!

Welcome back, students! While we hope you are enjoying your new classes for the fall semester, we are excited to announce the scheduled sessions for Open Figure Drawing at the University Center (Academic Entrance 63 Fifth Avenue), Room 619.

Open figure drawing is open to all Parsons students and faculty with a New School issued ID to enter the building. All that we ask is that you come with your own tools of choice and clean up after yourself before you leave. There are only 16 seats available however, participating students and faculty may come and go as they please.

The sessions run from 4:00-6:00 and from 7:00-9:00
Here are the dates to watch out for during this semester!

September 5th
September 12th
September 19th

October 10th
October 17th
October 24th
October 31st

November 7th
November 14th
November 21st

December 5th

October 3rd and November 28th are holidays, so there will not be a drawing session.

See you there!

 

Find Out the Process Behind the “Virgin Mobile Office Murals” with George Bates Studio

Below is only a fraction of the amazing work by George Bates Studio in executing the Virgin Mobile Office Murals. To learn more about the backstory and process of this project or to simply just take a gander at the rest of the photos of their work, visit the blog to read the full post at http://georgebatesstudio.blogspot.com/2013/11/virgin-mobile-office-muralsit-always.html.

8 Parsons Students Selected for the 3×3 Illustration Annual

Parsons Illustration students Kristen DavisKatie GrossMasuko JoRachel LevitMonica RamosMeghann Stephenson, Janet Sung, and Linnea Gad were selected by a distinguished jury to be included in the 3×3 Illustration Annual. It will be printed and distributed worldwide in hardcover this fall. Congratulations to them and their teachers!

Scroll down to view the 11 Selected works:

 

Kristen Davis, Go to the Devil, Junior Concepts, Sergio Ruzzier (faculty)

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Katie GrossPlay Ball Part 1, Silkscreen, Scott Nobles (faculty)

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Masuko JoOdori, Senior Thesis 2, Jordin Isip (faculty)

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Rachel Levit,  Sad Girls, Senior Thesis 2, Jordin Isip (faculty)

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Monica RamosHuman Hairstyles, Senior Thesis 2, Jordin Isip (faculty)

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Meghann StephensonWet and Dry, Junior Concepts, Sergio Ruzzier (faculty)

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Janet SungCity Murder, Junior Concepts, Guy Billout (faculty)

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Linnea Gad, Series of four (clockwise from top left): Gentlemen of the Press Set, Celotex OfficeStasi ClosetMGM Property Department,  Senior Thesis, Jordin Isip (faculty)

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Illustration’s 2013 Senior Thesis Book!

After months of hard work all the student’s pieces have been culminated into this interactive and print form book. Down below is the link to download your own copy of the book. Simply ‘right click’ the navigate to ‘save link as’ and presto! You’ve got your own interactive copy of the Illustration Annual.

Enjoy! And happy summer everyone!

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Reading Paintings one-night-only group show in DUMBO tonight

Reading Paintings showcases a group of (mostly) recent Parsons Illustration graduates with works that address literature and the collaborations between image and text. It is a one night only event. “It’s going to be a really fun time with booze, music and cool art by cool people.”

Featuring: Charlie Carroll, Leigh CunninghamJohn GarciaJordin IsipMasuko JoSo Yoon KimSu-kyung LeeRachel LevitRay Masaki, Luna Medina, Monica RamosHazel Lee SantinoPaula SearingJulee Yoo

Date: Friday, April 26, 2013, 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm

Location: 135 Plymouth Street, suite 411, DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY

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