Category Archives: Inspiration
From Adaptation To Mutation: Contemporary Narrative Artists Remix Popular Culture
From Adaptation To Mutation: Contemporary Narrative Artists Remix Popular Culture
September 17, 2009 7PM
66 W 12th St./Room 404
A panel discussion with Nora Krug, Isabel Samaras, and R. Sikoryak, introduced and moderated by Bill Kartalopouluos. Presented by the Illustration Program at Parsons The New School for Design.
Isabel Samaras’ most recent book is On Tender Hooks: The Art of Isabel Samaras (Chronicle Books). She is a graduate of the Illustration Program at Parsons.
R. Sikoryak is the author of Masterpiece Comics (Drawn & Quarterly). He teaches in the Illustration Program at Parsons and is also a graduate of the Program.
Nora Krug is the author of Red Riding Hood Redux (Bries). She is an associate professor in the Illustration Program at Parsons.
Bill Kartalopoulos teaches classes on comics and illustration at Parsons.
Admission
Free; no tickets or reservations required;
seating is first-come first-served.
Don’t miss this amazing event!
[top image created by Noel Claro; middle image by R. Sikoryak; bottom image by Isabel Samaras]
Illustration Alum Jill Bliss featured on 20×200
Illustration Alum Jill Bliss is staying busy. Two different prints of hers were recently featured on Jen Bekman’s 20×200 website. Here is Jill’s artist statement:
In all the work that I do, I’m interested in the boundaries between separate communities or ideas—the common ground where things intersect, cross-pollinate and co-habitate.
In ecology, an area that contains habitats common to two communities, as well as others unique to the transition zone itself, is called the ecotone. This area is typically characterized by greater species diversity and population density than occur in either of the individual communities.
In my mind, “people, plants and animals” or “art, craft and design” are not so different from one another. I believe that everything and everyone are interconnected and similar—it’s just a matter of each functioning with a different set of materials, and at varying speeds and scales. I hope to call attention to these ideas in my work, and to celebrate the small overlooked details that showcase these interconnections and samenesses.
Head over to 20×200’s site and there might still be some of Jill’s prints available. And of course, check out Jill’s website for more goods and information.
Keep up the amazing work, Jill!
[seen above: Handmade Treehomes, #1A by Jill Bliss]
Drawn & Quarterly at the Brooklyn Book Fair (feat. R. Sikoryak!)
Drawn & Quarterly to exhibit at the Brooklyn Book Fair/Festival on Sunday, September 13th!
20th Anniversary Party at Brooklyn’s Rocketship on Saturday, September 12th!
Guy Delisle, R. Sikoryak, R.O. Blechman, Adrian Tomine, Gabrielle Bell and Ron Rege Jr!
For the third year in a row, D+Q will be exhibiting at the Brooklyn Book Festival. The festival has kindly invited Guy Delisle (Burma Chronicles, Pyongyang, Shenzhen) to be a special guest on the festival’s international stage, which will mark Delisle’s first-ever NYC event. D+Q cartoonists in attendance will be [Parsons Illustration Alum and Faculty] R. Sikoryak (Masterpiece Comics), R. O. Blechman (Talking Lines), Adrian Tomine (Shortcomings), Gabrielle Bell (Cecil & Jordan In New York) and Ron Rege Jr. (Skibber Bee Bye, Against Pain). To celebrate such a momentous gathering of D+Q cartoonists as well as toast to the company’s 20th Anniversary, please join us for cocktails at the Brooklyn purveyor of fine comics, Rocketship, on Saturday evening.
Saturday, September 12th, 7:00 PM
Rocketship, 208 Smith Street, Brooklyn, NY
http://rocketshipstore.blogspot.com/
Sunday, September 13th, 10:00AM-6:00 PM
Brooklyn Book Festival, Borough Hall, Brooklyn NY
http://www.visitbrooklyn.org/festival.html
11:00 AM Guy Delisle on the BBF’s International Stage
11:00-12:00 PM Gabrielle Bell & Ron Rege Jr signing
12:00-2:00 PM Guy Delisle & Adrian Tomine signing
2:00-4:00 PM R. O. Blechman & R. Sikoryak signing
4:00-6:00 PM Guy Delisle & Gabrielle Bell signing
All signings will be at the Drawn & Quarterly booth!
Quick Hit: Steven Guarnaccia’s reinterpretation of a classic
As Steve Heller says:
It’s never too early to introduce children to design (or egotistical designers). My favorite Italian publisher, Corraini Editore, has published my favorite American illustrator (with an Italian surname), Steven Guarnaccia’s architectonic take on The Three Little Pigs (in English and Italian).
Couldn’t have said it any better! Parsons Illustration Chair Steven Guarnaccia has a new children’s book out called “The Three Little Pigs” and it tells the classic story but infuses every aspect with architecture, casting the pigs as Frank Gehry, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright. You can grab your copy directly from the publisher Corraini.
Congrats, Steven!
Hazel Santino illustrates for the Vera List Art Collection
Click on the image above for a full-size version of Illustration Junior Hazel Santino’s fantastic poster illustration for the Vera List Art Collection Writing awards. Look for the posters around the New School community soon! We’ll also be blogging about the contest itself soon–it’s a great opportunity for students to express their analytical and/or their creative side by engaging some of the amazing art we have right here in our buildings. So keep your eye out for those details.
Congrats, Hazel!
Parsons Internship Fair on September 3rd
Parsons Internship Fair
We hope you can join us at the Parsons Internship Fair! This event is a great opportunity for students to find fall and winter semester internships. In addition, we encourage students to network with these top companies. We are pleased that in this challenging economic climate, employer interest in Parsons students continues to grow. A recent New York Times article reporting on the difficulty college students seeking internships are experiencing, stated, “Internships available to college students have fallen 21 percent since last year, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers.” But at Parsons, employer demand clearly remains strong.
Over forty top employers will be in attendance, including companies that are new to the event such as Stylecaster, Time Inc. Content Solutions, and Wieden+Kennedy.
The Date: Thursday, September 3, 2009
The Time: 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM
The Place: 55 West 13th St, Lang Hall, 2nd floor
Companies attending include:
Aéropostale, Inc.
Ann Taylor
Anthropologie
A|X Armani Exchange
Baron & Baron, Inc.
BCBG MAX AZRIA GROUP, INC.
Bloomingdale’s
The Brand Gallery
Brand New School East
Calvin Klein
CBS
Colette Malouf
Click 3X
Club Monaco
DKNY
Eileen Fisher, Inc.
Gucci Group
GyroHSR, Inc.
Hyperakt Design Group, Inc.
John Varvatos
JWT
Kenneth Cole
Large Animal Games
Li & Fung USA
Limitedbrands, Inc.
Logo
L’Oreal Paris
Loyale
Marvel
Movado Group, Inc.
MTV Networks
NBC Local Integrated Media
Nielsen Business Media
Ogilvy
Payless Shoe Source
Penguin Group (USA)
Polo Ralph Lauren
Saatchi & Saatchi NY
Stark Design
Stylecaster
Time Inc. Content Solutions
Tommy USA
Victorinox Swiss Army, Inc.
Wieden+Kennedy
To participate, students must be currently enrolled in a Parsons degree program (Associates, Bachelors, or Masters program). Students must bring a student id to the event and also several resumes and a portfolio or reel, if applicable.
Event sponsored by Parsons Career Services, 2 West 13 Street, room 511, parsonscareers@newschool.edu, 212-229-8940.
Screening of Manufactured Landscapes today!
Parsons School of Art, Media & Technology will host a screening of EDWARD BURTYNSKY: MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES tonight.
WHEN: Wednesday, August 26, 6PM
WHERE: Lab10 (room 1000, 2 W 13th St., 10th floor)
MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES is the striking new documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. Internationally acclaimed for his large-scale photographs of “manufactured landscapes”—quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines and dams—Burtynsky creates stunningly beautiful art from civilization’s materials and debris. The film follows him through China, as he shoots the evidence and effects of that country’s massive industrial revolution. With breathtaking sequences, such as the opening tracking shot through an almost endless factory, the filmmakers also extend the narratives of Burtynsky’s photographs, allowing us to meditate on our impact on the planet and witness both the epicenters of industrial endeavor and the dumping grounds of its waste.
In the spirit of such environmentally enlightening sleeper-hits as AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH and RIVERS AND TIDES, MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES powerfully shifts our consciousness about the world and the way we live in it, without simplistic judgments or reductive resolutions.
AWARDS
Best Documentary Feature – Toronto Film Critics Association
Best Canadian Feature – Toronto Film Critics Association
Best Canadian Feature – Toronto Film Festival
Best Documentary – Genie Awards
http://www.zeitgeistfilms.com/film.php?directoryname=manufacturedlandscapes
http://www.edwardburtynsky.com/Introduction/Manufactured_Landscapes.html
Quick Hit: Pinocchio Covers Collection
Sophomore Concepts instructor Les Kanturek has collected a lovely group of Pinocchio cover-art over at his class blog. Check it out for more images and look for at least SOME of these books to be on display in the 8th floor lobby when classes resume on August 31st!
Alumni Update: Brad Hamann
We received this email from Alum Brad Hamann (’77) the other day:
I am happy to announce the launch of my new campaign for DKNY’s special limited-edition Be Delicious scent, for which I have designed all the new illustrations. The artwork will be seen on everything from packaging and posters to billboards, p.o.p. items and taxi tops! An interactive version of the comic book I designed for DKNY can also be viewed at www.dknyfragrances.com My love for pop and comic book art has long been one of my main sources of inspiration and I’m very excited about this campaign.
Congrats, Brad! And for the rest of you, you can see more of Brad’s work at his website.